You really need to follow all that news a little more closely, one of the
economists in the administration made the comment and Bush disavowed it,
but the economist is mostly misunderstood on what he was trying to
say.  There are some compelling argument for free trade and its ability to
improve the lives on both sides of it, granted there will be short to
mid-term hardship in the sectors where jobs are lost, but typically this
causes more higher quality jobs to be created, here is a very basic example
that you can extrapolate from.

Computer company A offshores its phone tech support to India.  This causes
more people in India to learn english and pumps more money in to the Indian
economy.  This means company A can sell their products for less, make a
higher profit, allow more people to afford their computers, have more money
to increase their business either to share holders or by expanding in the
US and creating more higher level jobs here.

People always make the pro-illegal immigrant comment that they are only
taking the jobs that "we" won't.  You want to solve unemployment?  Then
kick out the millions of illegal aliens and look at all the jobs you
created.  My point being, would you rather work as a day laborer or as a
programmer.  Hopefully no one takes that wrong, I live in southern
california and our illegal immigrant population is massive.

At 06:51 AM 2/13/2004, Ron Horner wrote:
>I heard about that the White House thought that sending service jobs
>overseas was a good idea.  Here is the story link.
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ft/20040212/bs_ft/10759825068
>55
>
>If you were not going to vote, or vote for Bush, you should think again.
>
>Ron Horner
>Horner Consulting
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