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- From: josh@Happy-Man.com (Joshua_Putnam)
- Subject: Re: America doesn't have a clue: (was DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.204319.888@Happy-Man.com>
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- References: <1992Dec19.004520.29380@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec18.205739.11193@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <thomasd.42.724959481@tps.COM> <1992Dec21.215358.4886@netcom.com> <1992Dec22.195635.25474@Happy-Man.com> <thomasd.50.725148841@tps.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:43:19 GMT
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- In <thomasd.50.725148841@tps.COM> thomasd@tps.COM (Thomas W. Day) writes:
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- >I don't see that. If the Japanese don't obey the rules of free trade, using
- >a free trade model is erronous.
-
- Only if you consider free trade to be an exclusively economic,
- rather than moral, system. Two moral wrongs do not make a right
- -- you cannot serve justice by imposing injustice.
-
- >You mean the service industry people who sell their products, or the
- >government officials who live from their bribes? The basis of a solid
- >economy is still manufacturing. Discounting the nation's future for a few,
- >or a lot of, retailers is short-term thinking. Not the kind of thinking our
- >opponents will be doing.
- [....]
-
- >If the "freedom of association and trade" went two ways, there would be no
- >justification. That isn't the case. Even more important, it is a mistake
- >to think that reselling their products in exchange for minimal prices on our
- >natural resources is the same thing as participating in the 1st world
- >economy. We are being treated like a 3rd world, incapable of manufacturing
- >our own products and we are, by your own words, liking it.
-
- Yes. Living here in Puget Sound I frequently drive past the
- plantations where Boeing grows its towering 747s, and the mines
- where Micrsoft digs up its disks. The gall of those Japanese,
- buying these natural resources on the cheap and adding value
- overseas!
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