lelandj wrote: > On 11/29/2011 05:28 AM, Pete Theisen wrote: >> Aside: The real way to boost US employment is to bump foreign wage rates >> up. An ideal mission for the US Unions rather than the US government. >> Have US Unions sufficient patriotism to do the job? > > Tariffs impose artificial cost on products and services produced outside > the USA, that are imported into our country. Therefore, tariffs isolate > the USA from international competition. Tariffs within any free > economy, whether local, national or international, removes competition; > a key ingredient of capitalism. > > Counties that have cheap labor, including many third world countries, > communist countries, and autocratic countries, have a lower labor cost > advantage when competing in the international economy. This is often > due to government repression of collective bargaining, (eg labor unions > being illegal, etc). Lower labor cost are often present in counties > that have a strong class system, whereby the upper, or ruling class, > represses the general population. In such countries it would not be > possible to increase labor cost much beyond a wage required to provide > the bare necessities of life; unless, there be violence of one kind or > another, like revolution.
Hi Leland, So, the US Unions foment and finance a revolution in Scabobia or whatever and then unionize all the workers. So they might have to take a few shots, as Walter Reuther did but . . . -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
