Comments on Free Trade: It Costs

Go to Wavy Davy's Politics - Add a comment - Go to Free Trade: It Costs

Re: Free Trade: It Costs

    I would love to see a world without war and hate but I don't see it ever happening.

posted by WavyDavy on May 13, 2007 at 8:52 AM | link to this | reply

Re: we are on the same wavelength here

  I'm conservative on most issues but liberal on a few.  I'm a registered unaffiliated voter.

posted by WavyDavy on May 13, 2007 at 8:50 AM | link to this | reply

Re: read your "about me"

    I haven't read Hemingway and Faulkner in quite awhile.  Not since High School over 20 years ago.  I've always been interested in the poor and oppressed.  I enjoy stories where people are battling against insurmountable odds. I'll try to get a copy of Woody Guthrie's  Bound For Glory.  I agree with you: Elvis did a nice version of I Did It My Way too.  My favorite Elvis song is Memories.  Sad but beautiful. 

posted by WavyDavy on May 13, 2007 at 8:47 AM | link to this | reply

read your "about me"

you are a very interesting person.

someone your age liking steinbeck -- hmmm -- hows about Hemingway and Faulkner?

the classics -- also try Woody Guthrie's BOUND FOR GLORY -- in the same vein as Steinbeck's work.

I like Elvis' rendition of I DID IT MY WAY, by the way.

posted by Xeno-x on May 12, 2007 at 5:20 PM | link to this | reply

we are on the same wavelength here

the facts speak for themselves

American corporations getting rich by exporting jobs overseas (think China), where they don't have to worry about fair wages, health insurance, worker safety, retirement benefits, etc., that add to the cost of goods

and american workers making less and less.

maybe the employment picture looks good -- like not that many unemployed -- but we have both adults in the family working, sometimes at 2 jobs, and a hell of a lot of hamburger cooks.

I am liberal -- I have to check where you stand in the picture -- but here we speak the same language.

posted by Xeno-x on May 12, 2007 at 5:17 PM | link to this | reply

I think, on balance, discount giants like Walmart have done america more harm than good.

However, there's still quite a ways to go before the U.S. becomes a "third world nation". And besides, by then, most of the other countries will be, like, fourth and fifth word nations.

I can picture in my mind a world without war,
a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world,
because they'd never expect it.

posted by Mademoiselle on May 12, 2007 at 2:53 PM | link to this | reply