[lbo-talk] econ policy, HRC vs BHO

[Max B. Sawicky]

John Gulick wrote:
> MBS wrote:
>> I think you might agree that it will take a lot more than labor/green 
>> clauses -- which I support -- in trade agreements to help manufacturing 
>> workers in the U.S. So even if BHO folded on NAFTA, as HRC surely will, 
>> it wouldn't make that much of a difference.  More to the point would be 
>> thinking about what sort of renegotiation would help Mexico.
>  
> JG fruitlessly opines:
>  
> True, true enough. But are either of the candidates "thinking about what 
> sort of renegotiation would help Mexico"? Of course not, as you would
> readily admit... and nor would a perspicacious observer such as you or

Actually they have all sorts of policy groups thinking about everything,
so I wouldn't doubt that is somewhere in the mix.  What they come up
with is anybody's guess.


> me (if I may flatter the two of us) expect them to... so why then, the
> inordinate time and energy devoted to chasing the Obama phantasm?
> Well, I guess we all have our insalubrious private reasons... God knows 
> my life circurmstances are wedging me into a pathetic corner (having
> little to do with US bourgeois electoral endorsements).

I have a secure (I hope) civil service job and no need to chase 
phantasms of any
sort. As for AG, he is really not very ideological in a good or bad 
sense.  I see him
as an empiricist, smart and objective, with no reason to dislike him. 
You can't be
furious with everybody who does not share your point of view.  At least, 
I can't.


>  
> PS Regarding your upcoming interview with Goolsbee, forgive me for
> rushing to judgment, but how could you even stand to be in the same