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- From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.african.american,sci.electronics,misc.consumers,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
- Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.000030.9064@informix.com>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 00:00:30 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.085537.11269@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec17.151058.20274@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
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- In article <1992Dec17.151058.20274@oakhill.sps.mot.com> rvkl60@aus18a25.sps.mot.com (Tom Mathes) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.085537.11269@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
- >>
- >>President Clinton should send a formal request to Japan, demanding that
- >>formal and/or informal barriers to trade be removed. No more $24,000
- >>Pontiac Grand Ams in Japan. If they don't comply within 30 days, there will be
- >>an across-the-board 10% additional tariff that will slapped on all Japanese
- >>imports for _each_ month that there is no compliance.
- >
- >Nicely put Mr. Joe.
-
- I can see that there is lots of enthusiasm for America getting what it
- wnats in the world by sheer bullying, but doesn't it occur to you that
- this tactic works well only against weak countries?
-
- What do you do when Japan responds to your 10%, 10%, 10% tariffs by
- failing to show up to one month's T-bill auction, and the US immediately
- goes bankrupt?
-