From: pssres12@ucs.usl.edu (Vignes Gerard M)
Subject: President Bill and International Trade
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:47:47 GMT


		President Bill and International Trade

President Bill is addressing a convention of US Industrial Leaders.
In the middle of his speech, a  representative the Aerospace Industry
interrupts him with an impromptu question.

Representative:
	Mr. President!  Excuse me please, sir...
	What about American companies dependent on exports for survival?
	Won't your get tough policy with Japan and the EC invite retaliation?
	Have you taken their possible responses into consideration?

President Bill:
	Hmmmm... Well...  I wasn't expecting a question and answer session...
	but that's a good question, and it deserves a good answer.

	Yes, we have made every effort to take all potential adverse
	international retaliatory protectionist measures into account
	formulating our policy for restoring the grevious imbalance in
	world trade perpetuated by our predecessors in the Bush and Reagen
	administrations...  and I can ensure you with absolute certainty
	that any such retaliation is not going to be a problem.

	America has become increasingly dependent on internationl trade
	for the last twelve years of Republican mismanagement of the
	American economy and this has cost us hundreds of thousands
	of American jobs and kept Americans from enjoying the fruits
	of their labor...  but we are going to correct that problem
	with the passage of my new trade management package being
	debated in the Senate.

Representative:
	But Sir, Mr. President...
	Won't that bill force other nations to reciprocate
	by increasing their own tarrifs agains our products?
	
President Bill:
	If they decide to retaliate, then that's their problem, not ours.
	We don't need them to help put America back on the right track.
	The hard-working, honest, decent people of America are tired
	of seeing their hard-earned dollars going overseas to enrich
	foreign companies and finance foreign expansion.

	We need to start putting America first...  Americans first...
	our people first.  We can't waste time worring about global trade
	while our own kids are starving and running around barefooted.
	
Representative:
	But Mr. President, many important industries depend on a free
	international marketplace.  Our own industry couldn't survive
	without selling to foreign governments and industry.

President Bill:
	And whose fault is that!
	I didn't tell you to become dependent of foreign markets.
	You should have been worring about your own people back home.
	Then you wouldn't be in such a difficult situation.

Representative:
	But Sir, our industry alone employs over five-hundred thousand
	American workers in high-paying, high-technology jobs.
	And if you consider all the other industries that are going to be
	hurt by your legislation, perhaps ten-milliion highly-skilled
	workers will loose their jobs as a result of reduced trade.

President Bill:
	Look!  I came down here to explain to you people the benefits
	of my new trade package.  I've gotten zero support from the
	business community since I assumed office.  Why don't you people
	try working with me instead of fighting me all the time.

	You're worried about ten-million workers losing their jobs?
	Well I'm worried about twenty-million people who don't have jobs.
	Maybe if you'd been hiring those people instead of running off
	around the world trying to make a quick buck, America wouldn't
	be in the shape it's in today.

Representative:
	But Mr. President, international trade has financed American
	prosperity for over one-hundred years.  We've been through
	slowdowns before and always emerged stronger than ever.
	But we have never benefited from a reduction in trade.

President Bill:
	This isn't a reducton in trade.  It's a trade adjustment to
	correct the imbalances of the Bush and Reagen administrations.

	Now I'm not going to spend the afternoon arguing with you.
	If you don't want to get with the program and help put America
	back on track, then that's your problem.  Just don't interfere.

	We know exactly what we're doing!
	Trust me...

						Produced and Directed By,

						Gerard Vignes

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