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THOSE OF us who used to speak against that were called 'protectionist' and 'racist' by the Sheeple.
Because Milton Friedman has been deified by the Nobel committee. He said buy everything where it's cheapest. We were told he had to be right, because he was an authority, and had been deified. So the alternative for laid off production workers was to become knowledge workers. I remember an unemployed truck driver, who had completed a computer repair course, walking up to Reagan, and handing him is resume. Reagan got him a job at a Radio Shack computer repair center. In a matter of months, the guy was back to driving a truck, because it paid so much better than being a "knowledge worker" for Radio Shack.
Steve
