Post #97,613
4/21/03 12:46:12 PM
|
Huh?
O'Reilly?
I've only had access to Fox News for a few months...and from what I have watched of the "Factor" I don't know what all the fuss was about.
I like Matthews better for sheer entertainment value and he's MSNBC.
Dunno what you mean by your question. The easy answer is you picked the wrong guy to ask...cause I don't.
Of course, if we were to do it like the Romans and the Soviets...well anyone presently bitching about the interim situation in Iraq should be dead already..and why hasn't Mexico been made a state? They've got oil, cheap labor supply...you'd think we'd have taken them over by now.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
|
Post #97,632
4/21/03 2:19:45 PM
|
Re: Mexico
Wasn't that what NAFTA was about? Why take on the social problems when you can get tax-free access to labor?
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
|
Post #97,634
4/21/03 2:21:21 PM
|
Oh yeah...
...and we got Canada in that deal too.
Sweet.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
|
Post #97,637
4/21/03 2:34:58 PM
|
You think NAFTA was a good idea?
If so, how? Looks like an excellent tool for accelerating the polarization of wealth to me. But then, given the content of most of our arguments, you might consider that a good thing. ;-)
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
|
Post #97,649
4/21/03 2:55:48 PM
|
Only if...
..its polarizing into my pocket. Which, by the way, it isn't.
Interesting theory, though. I've heard alot of things about NAFTA but the wealth polarization angle is a new one on me.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
|
Post #97,651
4/21/03 3:01:32 PM
|
Really?
I thought the wealth redistro-up effect of NAFTA was self-evident ;-)
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
|
Post #97,655
4/21/03 3:17:49 PM
|
Not with respect to Canada, at least.
We have a number of Canadian employees who love NAFTA.
You see, they get paid in US dollars, and they get to take them back across the border where the cost of living is measured in Canadian dollars. NAFTA is like a 50% raise for these folks, once they start working across the border in the US.
YMMV. ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
|
Post #97,645
4/21/03 2:46:33 PM
|
Bill I think you also forgot...
[image|/forums/images/warning.png|0|This is sarcasm...]
b4k4^2
| [link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - IT Grand-Master for President | | [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] | | [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857673,00.asp|2004, the year Microsoft develops for Linux ] | Heimatland Geheime Staatspolizei reminds:
The DHS [link|http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/cyberspace_strategy.pdf|Cyberer-Stratergery]. The ultimate in Cyber. |
|
Post #97,650
4/21/03 2:56:47 PM
|
Was it really necessary? Probably, so thanks.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
|
