Comment by Carbine on 'No Contrition in Sight Anywhere'

Carbine — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:36:17 GMT

So what? Who, besides their own spouses, do they have anything to apologize to? If people don't like what they did they are free to vote against them in the upcoming election.

Comment by clarence swinney on 'No Contrition in Sight Anywhere'

clarence swinney — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:14:30 GMT

off subject pardon but important to middle class

FREE TRADE=DISASTER
Our balance of trade is bad and
has little chance of being reversed.
This “Free” Trade ideology has allowed access to our economy for goods made overseas
under low wage structures plus government subsidized businesses and oftentimes dumping below cost to capture our markets. We have lost the bulk of many industries as textiles and apparel.
The “Free” trade has eliminated millions of our good, middle class jobs giving us a service/financial economy. This economy cannot support the “lifestyle” Americans have enjoyed for many decades. The top 1% has done well. Average income for them=1970-$318,000—1980--$318.000--1990--$393,000---2000---$875,000---2008----$988,000---2010---$905,557
Share of wealth by 1%=20% in 1976 and 34% in 2004
We need tariffs plus enforcement of agreements to punish “dumping”.In the last decade we closed 58,000 plants. You can observe them in almost every city in North Carolina.

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