Re: Ten Years of NAFTA - What it's Done for You?

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:56:22 -0600, Albert Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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>> I don't see the role of Government as protecting one American at the
>> expense of another. By imposing restrictions on free trade, Government
>> is preventing a group of Americans from engaging in such practice
>> simply to benefit another group. 
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>But, isn't that what police are supposed to do with criminals?
>

Well, will a theory of quantum gravity ever be discovered?

(One stupid question deserves another.)

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>> That is not the purpose of
>> Governement. That is wrong and shoulod never happen.
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>On the contrary.  I vigorously disagree.  The price to any American
>corporation for a charter is the providing of jobs for Americans.
>

You are mistaken. The purpose is to provide returns to its
shareholders.

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>Remember your argument the next time an American corporation is about to
>fail and comes begging for a bailout, and your argument is "We can't let
>them fail; They provide too many jobs."
>

I wholeheartedly disagree with welfare, whether for individuals or
corporations. If a corporation needs bailing out, it should seek
private, not taxpayer money.

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>If you live at home with your parents well after you are grown and
>self-sufficient and refuse to help out with room-and-board then you
>are a first-class asshole; Just so isan American corporation that owes
>it's very existence to the public infrastructure it leaned on.
>

A corporation pays taxes to pay for the legal infrastructure it relies
on. In any case, the discussion was about Government restrictions on
free trade, not corporations.