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- From: louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: GM Plant Closures and Economic Problems
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 17:41:07 GMT
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- mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com (Mike Polen) writes:
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- >In the US case, the bigger problem was the post-war (WWII) protectionism
- >of other countries which subsidized the process of taking money out of
- >the US and paying it to workers in foreign countries.
-
- AT the time this was US policy, and the correct one. The US had all the
- technology, all the factories (You should have see the Japanese
- factories in 1946 as I did, or the German factories -- there wern't any)
- and could afford, nay, could not afford not to open up the American
- market to VW, Sony, and the like, while not doing anything about closed
- markets in Japan and Germany. It worked. But it is no longer a viable
- strategy for American prosperity. The Russian Bear is gone. I see by
- the news that Yeltsin flew off with Helmut Kohl to a private dacha for
- a conference on trade and economic reforms.
-
- >Then we printed
- >more money to keep up the available cash in the US. We still pursue
- >a policy that protects the Japanese and the European manufacturer by
- >allowing him free access to our markets without demanding similar
- >access to Japanese and European markets. As are economy deteriorates,
- >we create money (deficit spending) to "entitle" those out of work and
- >to pay people in "created" jobs.
-
- Well, I think your chronology is a bit off. The US didn't have to print
- money (create trade defiicts) until the Reagan era if remeber right.
-
- >We need to call in the loans (demand trade surpluses until our investment
- >in other countries is repaid), streamline government (eliminate some
- >programs and make the others more efficient), and only spend what we
- >have.
-
- Absolutely right! The US must mangae it's trade, not cut if off.
- But please, do it with purpose, coordination, and intelligence.
-
- >--
- >These opinions are usually my own, sometimes my dog's,
- >occasionaly my (grown) children's, never my employer's.
- --
- Louis Schmittroth louis@cs.athabascau.ca
- NW 1/4 18 67 21 W4 Alberta.
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