From: merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.libertarian
Subject: Re: Ayn Rand(What yo gonna do?)
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:24:33 GMT
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Organization: Boston University Physics Department
In-reply-to: REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU's message of 12 Dec 92 17:00:42 GMT



%      My $0.02 worth is as follows:
%   Why do I care what stupid decisions are made by some other person?
%   If Lee Iaccocca won't make right-side drive cars until the Japanese buy
%   enough left-side drive cars, he deserved to suffer a loss w.r.t. Japan.
%   How does Lee's bussiness failure affect me?  Quite frankly, it doesn't.
%  I am not in the car bussiness.  If I were, I would make decisions that
%   I considered more rational.  In the mean time, If Honda wants to own
%   factories here, employing Americans, Japanese, or Martians, I simply
%   don't care.  As long as tsomeone is employed here, I have potential
%   customers for whatever enterprise I choose to undertake.

First off if we continue to loose market share of the high end
manufacturing sectors (sectors where the most valued is added
to raw material), we will ultimatley loose national wealth.
If we are reduced to selling only timber and ores because we
no longer have the technical expertise to manufacter products
of higher technology, will we not be a third world country?
Seconldy the Japanese won't build factories here to sell goods
in America because wages will be so low we won't have money to
buy these items. They may exploit the cheap labor, but then again
we won't have a work force worth employing for some of the skills
will be beyond us.

Where will you work? What will you be employed as?

%      Each of us should take the responsibility of making our own decisions.
%   Case in point...  Why on Earth would the US need trade sanctions on any
%   country?  If enough people are willing to embargo a country, it is
%   effectively embargoed - provided we live by our convictions.

Youve lost me but, are you saying that we shouldn't buy a product
because it comes from country X, and it is "dumped" here even
if it is the best product and offer at a cheaper price? 
Is moral conviction to be an over-riding factor on market
forces?
 
%      But no, Americans scream and cry for government to pass a law telling
%   them to do something they already know they should be doing.  Americans
%   seem to need a Law telling them not to ingest cocaine, etc.  Next, there
%   will be a Law against drinking gasoline!   But I digress...

Yes you do digress. If a product is indeed being "dumped" it is an 
attempt by a foriegn nation to interfere with LF capitalism in this
country. It is an attack on our way of life. In as much as I can stand
a goverment, I feel it should protect my way of life from a a foreign
goverment that threatens that way of life. Such ploys as artificial
low pricing are attempts to gain market share and eliminate competition.

Some have suggested that we should not worry about the high-bred 
collectivist capitalist of Europe and Asia. The argument is that
if they are willing to sunsidize us what's the problem?
The fact is they may some day not be willing to subsidize us.
The may choose not to sell us parts or equipmet vital to our
national defense, which we had long since lost the ability(or
never gained the ability) to manufacture(eg A Japan That Can Say: NO.).
If they succeed in udermining (destroying?) or high-tech manufacturing
base we will have no freedom at all. Note that our goverment now
refuses to sell defense equipment to nations. 

The wars of the 21st century are Economic in nature. There will be 
winners and losers. High-bred Collectivst Capitalist are far more
formidable opponents than Communist in these NEW type of wars.
They will not dry-up and blow away or cave in from their own
inefficiences, because being high-breds they have the freedom to
tweek their policies to engage our counter tactics.
  


%      Pick your convictions.
 
I do have strong convictions. One is that I want to live in
a technologically advanced country where true freedom exist.

%     Stick by them.

Of course.
 
%     Let others do the same.

goes without saying.

-sjm
--
Sean J. Merritt		         | "Every revolt is a cry of innocence    
Dept of Physics Boston University|  and an appeal to the essence of being."
merritt@macro.bu.edu             | Albert Camus, The Rebel
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