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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Trade War?
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:00:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.164345.22578@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> cthorne@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Charles E Thorne) writes:
- >In article <BxICzy.I5p@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov10.160010.21690@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> cthorne@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Charles E Thorne) writes:
- >
- >>>However, I expect we'll see a lot more protectionism in the years ahead.
- >>>With the large U.S. budget deficit, sending military aid to the rest of the
- >>>world and allowing them to send products to the U.S. in competition with
- >>>our producers will become politically undesirable in the years to come.
- >
- >> How does it follow that this will result in more protectionism?
- >
- >Clinton ran on a ticket of increasing U.S. jobs. One way to indicate that
- >he's serious about this would be to propose laws that would decrease losing
- >jobs to other countries. Thus protectionism would increase (he also had
- >serious questions about approving NAFTA).
-
- Only if you think protectionism protects jobs. I don't know how
- stupid Clinton is, so I won't speculate on what he might do, but
- considering the hundreds of billions of dollars in goods and
- services the US exports every year, and the millions of US jobs
- that depend on this, he would need to have an awfully good
- crystal ball to guess whether any particular protectionist act
- would actually save jobs, or cost jobs due to the effects of
- foreign retaliation, not to mention the effects on the domestic
- economy of having to pay more for whatever the product in question
- was. Studies of the "voluntary" import quotas on Japanese cars
- indicated that the cost to the economy for every job saved was
- far greater than the income generated by that job.
-
-
- >> Isn't the logical conclusion from this that it would result
- >> in less military aid, especially reducing the large US forces
- >> on foreign soil?
- >
- >I would expect that the U.S. forces in Europe would decline substantially
- >(although the Europeans have already complained that we're not doing enough
- >about solving the Serbian-Crotia issue).
-
- So let them complain. I don't see them doing anything.
-
-
- >Unfortunately, reducing military expenditures will also increase unemployment
- >--both in military forces and in defense industries.
-
- Right. We know this. What does it have to do with the topic at
- hand?
-
-
-
- ---peter
-