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- From: lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Luke Nosek)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Clinton Advisors
- Message-ID: <Bxovxv.J4x@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 04:46:42 GMT
- References: <1689DB722.M23231@mwvm.mitre.org> <1992Nov12.202609.26193@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- cthorne@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Charles E Thorne) writes:
-
- >In article <1689DB722.M23231@mwvm.mitre.org> M23231@mwvm.mitre.org writes:
- >>Does anyone know if Robert B. Reich at Harvard has an Internet address?
- >>This guy's book, "The Work of Nations", is at odds with what Clinton has said
- >>about what he'll do about the export of American jobs, yet Reich pops up
- >>frequently as a talking head for Clinton's economic team.
-
- >I would agree with you. I think Robert Reich is much more "free-trade" than
- >Clinton. Of course, Clinton is a politician and needs to realize that some
- >of the electorate aren't in favor of free-trade if they're losing jobs.
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- >Charlie
-
- Exactly... ANYTIME a policitcian says something and you don't think
- they mean it because one of their close friends or associates is at odds -
- you're probably right.
-
- Case in point - George Bush and abortion - his wife is pro-choice. Now
- now, you can't honestly expect me to believe he goes to bed every night with
- a wife who "condones infancide." NO! When he waffled in abortion in 1980 so that
- he could join Reagan, he didn't really change his mind!
-
- (anyone who wants to take this argument up post it in a different base)
-
- Bill Clinton is a Rhodes Scholar - you don't get that without some
- economics education - and from the first econ class they beat you to death
- with free trade. Clinton is just saying what he's saying because he wants to
- empathize with out of work Americans.
-
- AND what would you do? Tell them (labor unions, etc) to take economics
- 101? Well, that is your only option if you don't want to "waffle." - because
- it takes an education to really understand why free trade is such a wonderful
- and desireable thing.
-