dean

the only across the board answer
is the swedish escape

devalue against your
emerging market trading partners

problem

the trans nats
across the great pacific
profit slurry

but at least
we can know
there is a solution

look at the diff in trade balance dynaimcs between the canadas and euros

and the east asians

why ???

currency fiddles

and turn these fiddles over to read the made in label

it has in fine print

co signed
by the wall street establishment

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bruce
hits the nyt flap doodlery hand wringing
dead on

oh if we only could afford it .....

that is the idiot prudence rubin chickens coming home to roost on our heads
and taking a shit not laying an egg

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nice comment mister webb

the trickle is a pisser of a theory

on noam ...
i suggest we at least between each other
leave him his aspects of syntax
and his libertarian socialism vs the evil yank empirebehind us

and return to our common ground
economic policy and the new new deal

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dissent

i take dean very differently
he's hardly some mad science loon
this is a nuts and bolts union staff mind
at work here
trying to counter (and i think successfully)
the neoliberal on slaught
that has stripped this couuntry of its ability to
pay its way
for what it imports
from the rest of the world
by selling honest products
not hi fi shuffles
and intellectual property licenses

i think dean's over arching point in his recent pamphlet
apropos this wage structure issue
is simple and straight forward

we have a very selective system
of open and shut border doors here
and that includes

the wage rate lowering shadow
trade with low wage areas
now casts on both our skilled
and
our unskilled domestic wages

the very uneven system
of
de facto cross border migration of skilled and skilless

trading partners
denial of the fundemental rights of labor
and their
non protection
of the environment

his conclusions
are sound i think

surely you agree
throwing up labels like

free vs fair
gets the real lines of struggle
and both sides in that struggle
operating under false flags

baker tries to clarify what his side is fighting for
and what the field of battle really looks like

as to immigration of doctors
as el blanko sez
default case
if a few fat oxes get gored too maybe ....