Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
You know Urchin I just gotta laugh at that, being insulted on
economic issues by an ignorant communist like yourself... as for inmdependanyt thought yoiu are the one sputtering back drivel from yiour communist profhesors, tell me again how evil are those corporations? Anyway dont be too hard on Wal-Wart or McDonalds, they will always be there for you when you need them because frankly you have no chance in the real world if you continue to think as poorly as you do on economics and business. >
Still urchin I think your hostility towards me fully demonstartes that I was right and that you really arent willing to learn from these responses. In fact I dont even know why i bother responding to this thread.
But I'm kinda ticked because I did try to give you a real life example of where tarrifs such as you prposed did great harm - but then you come back with insults..
Why ask in the first place if you intend to insult people who respond?
Lemme see...
"Are you still going to school?"
"Its the EVIL corporations fault, because they are EVIL."
Looks like typical Grunherz idiocy to me.
Then I think you attempt to "redeem" yourself with
"No it wouldnt work well, for example tarrifs would simply destroy the US economy as other nations would simply deploy counter tarrifs to protect their workers. In fact protectionist tarrifs and retalitory prptectionist tarrifs were enourmously responsible for the Great Depression of the 1930s getting as bad as it did - and the motive was the same - to protect domestic jobs. "
Which would be untrue in the United States anyway, possibly it was true in Europe, I've never studied the depression of the 1930's in Europe. The depression in the 1930's was touched off by the stock market crash of 1929, which was the result of a "bubble" similar to what we had with tech stocks in the 1990's (the crash of which could be seen as causing the economic slump we are experiencing today). The situation was exacerbated by CORPORATE MANAGEMENT (yea, those friendly folks you get all dressed up and cheer for every Sunday, Monday, and Thursday night) who got the economy into a downward spiral by cutting production and jobs and "waiting it out". The more people that got laid off, the less money there was to spend, which in turn led to decreased sales, leading to decreased production, and more lay-offs. Now, were the corporate managers wrong? Of course not. They had a responsibility to their stockholders to not lose money, and everyone assumed that the situation would solve itself as it had in the past. Of course it didn't, but that isn't their fault. "Protectionist Tariffs" didn't have a whoopee thing to do with it. Better luck next time.
And finally,
"And it's really a bad idea to learn your economics from english proffesors..."
Yes, but I'm somewhat proud of the fact that I apparently learned something from my English professors. I, personally, think it is a bad idea to try to learn history from your corporate manager, even if you could find one that wasn't busy pulling his head out of his ass.
And enjoy your career in corporate management- maybe if you are really lucky you'll get to go over to one of the countries your corporation outsources all of its jobs to. If you get a chance, maybe take a quick 15 minute break from beating them to keep the production level high, go check out what your corporate largess is doing for their lives. Personally speaking, I'm of the opinion that "trickle-down" economics is fundamentally flawed... but then again I'm just a dirty communist.