Barkley on WTO, etc

Tom Lehman uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu
Mon Dec 20 12:47:37 PST 1999


Rakesh, this reminds me of a gentleman free-trader on a steel industry list who wrote that I wouldn't be happy until the USWA was collecting dues in China. Not a bad idea in my humble opinion. Why not?

Tom

Rakesh Bhandari wrote:


> > [mbs] This assails my motives, which you have no way of knowing.
> > Debates over motives are boring.
>
> I infer motive from the inattention given to the lives of the children in
> whose names such bans are imposed.
>
> >
> > [mbs] In the context of what I have written and published for all the world
> > to see about deficits, this is hilarious.
>
> Yes, everyone has seen it. And no one is listening to you. So losing the
> battle over deficits, why not throw in with aggressive nationalists?
>
> > [mbs] If workers are fighting to keep the better-paying
> > jobs that they still have, I support them. Some things
> > really shouldn't require justification on a left list.
>
> If China says future planes it buys should at least be produced with
> some local labor and some transfer of tech, why should US labor oppose
> this?
>
>
> > Claiming that Keynesian policies are no longer feasible
> > is exporting unemployment.
>
> I am not to blame for the dear ears your calls for deficits have fallen on
> or why there has not been a real Keynesian in an important position for at
> least 20 years (according to James K Galbraith). Frustrated, you guys at
> the EPI are about to throw in with a Buchananish labor movement.
>
> Yours, Rakesh



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