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Old 08-24-2011, 11:31 AM
 
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I am 100% for free enterprise, but our government should stop picking winners and losers.

Boeing building in SC, not okay.

GE trading secrets with China, okay.
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Old 08-24-2011, 11:36 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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Boeing in SC - OK as a union shop

GE in China - not OK under any conditions. Let the Chinese spend the money to figure out how to make this stuff on their own.
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Old 08-24-2011, 11:39 AM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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I am 100% for free enterprise, but our government should stop picking winners and losers.
Not when it is tied to "free speech"... having access to more of it defines winners and losers.
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Old 08-24-2011, 04:54 PM
 
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Why are you made at a POLITICIAN? ........
Seriously??

Who do you think appointed Immelt to a politically appointed position?

His mother?
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Old 08-24-2011, 04:57 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Really? I wonder if the "president" knows America is in economic trouble and that it's losing its manufacturing base?

I think the "president" got the words preserve and subversive mixed up when reading his oath.
What is it that you want to talk about?
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Old 08-24-2011, 05:03 PM
 
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We can expect one of two things to occur on this thread:

1) Liberals will support this as part of their larger "Globalize/Kill America Agenda"

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2) Ignore the thread altogether because it paints yet another picture of this President colluding with GE to destroy the American economy at the behest of "Transforming America"
Now I am confused. One day the government is suppose to get out of the way of corporations and the next day the government is suppose to try and stop the free flow of capital. Are for the "free market" or are we against it. I'm asking because it is getting damned near impossible to keep track of the spinning web of arguments, which is perhaps why "liberals" don't bother entering the debate.
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Old 08-24-2011, 05:09 PM
 
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Washington D.C. is brought and paid for. It doesn't really matter who is in the White House. Corporate America has brought the White House and both Houses of Congress.
Did you have a boughtworst for lunch recently
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Old 08-24-2011, 05:22 PM
 
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This is a capitalist entity behaving rationally in a global resource market. Labor in China is skilled enough to do the job, and they can work for a fraction of the US cost. Why wouldn't they go where the cheapest labor is? I thought we were pro business around here.
But we're acting like we have no idea how to run our business or how to compete. That stuff just comes natural to business people.
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Old 08-25-2011, 11:32 AM
 
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I am 100% for free enterprise, but our government should stop picking winners and losers.

Boeing building in SC, not okay.

GE trading secrets with China, okay.
Back in the day Alphamale Clinton helped China with the defunked North American plant with 25 year old technology we the tax payer help develop closed the gap in research and development.Now they are very active in space and their aerospace programs motto is "We will rule the world".
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Old 08-25-2011, 11:39 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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let them roll their own. That would be interesting to watch. The Chinese are quite able to innovate but their results are usuall different form the west.
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