observations from a window seat in the handbasket headed for hell
"We're competing not only with a country with low wages but with very high and heavy subsidies and a rigging of their currency. [...]" says Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the House trade subcommittee.
Three things the U.S. doesn't have, eh?
Too bad U.S. laborers don't have the same power as Congress to argue against having to compete in the U.S. job market against overseas laborers.
Daily Twain:
And other words of wisdom...
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. --George Orwell
When you hold up your arm and swear to uphold the Constitution, you don’t say, “Except in wartime.” -- George McGovern
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