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Democrats
If a cow is bovine
and a dog is canine.
A cat is feline and
a bear is ursine.
A horse is equine
as a fox is vulpine and
the sheep is ovine.
Don't forget the eagle is aquiline
and the snake is elapine. Or
serpentine if you prefer.
The lion is leonine and the
rabbit is leporine.
The rodent is murine (keep that out
of your eye).
The peacock (and mayhaps the peahen)
is pavonine.
Now the pig is porcine and
the thrush is turdine (how unfortunate).
But don't combine that with the bull which is taurine.
Repeat after me, the parrot is
psittacine. Don't say it too fast.
Now with all that richness of language, the Republicans
chose the elephant as their mascot.
Loxodontine if you want to be fancy.
But keep it simple.
Elephantine.
Majestic. Large. Strong. Steadfast. Faithful.
What did the Democrats choose?
Donkey.
Asinine.
Says it all.
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The outsourcing bogey
by William Anderson
August 24, 2004
Each U.S.
Presidential election campaign seems to have a new economic theme. In 1976, it
was “energy independence,” while “supply side economics” dominated 1980s
campaign. (I also remember that the 1980 election was the last one in which
much of the discussion involved intelligent discourse on the role of
government—something that is nonexistent today, as politicians bury us in
slogans.)
If there is an economic theme in this present election campaign,
it seems to be “outsourcing.” Politicians—and especially the Democrats—for the
most part seem to be against it, although in many cases they are the people
most responsible for what is taking place. Yet, since political campaigns tend
to bring out more heat than light, some explanations are in order to better
describe what actually is occurring.
“Outsourcing” is the practice of investing in capital
outside the U.S.
in order to produce goods that are sold mostly in this country. For example, a U.S.
textile firm might invest in a factory in China
that makes shirts that are then sold at your local Wal-Mart. This is only the
tip of the iceberg, as this practice has grown as countries like China and
India, both with large populations, have opened their economic and political
systems to the point where foreign firms feel safe to invest—without having
their properties confiscated by those governments, which is what often happened
in the past.
While it has become popular in recent years, “outsourcing”
hardly is a new phenomenon. During the 19th Century, British investors poured
money into the U.S.,
and Japanese firms have done the same in the past 20 years. Unfortunately,
politicians and their rhetoric have thrown confusion into the mix by claiming
that U.S.
companies are “exporting jobs.”
Since a job is not a good, one cannot import or export it.
The term is purely rhetorical and not economically meaningful. Politicians
decry the fact that U.S.
firms and investors are not building factories here to make the same goods that
can be made in China
in less-costly conditions. They cite the lost income to Americans who might
lose their jobs because a good for which they are paid $10 an hour to make can
be produced by someone in China
or India
working for a fifth as much.
When textile workers in South Carolina
or computer programmers in Utah
lose their jobs to lower-paid labor from overseas, it is hardly surprising that
politicians step into the void and demand that U.S.
investors be coerced into making investments on our soil. Leftists like Ralph
Nader and Jim Wallis (the self-proclaimed “evangelical” who promotes a leftist
political culture as the essence of Christianity) have joined in the
anti-outsourcing/anti-free trade chorus to demand that the government stop
firms and investors from this practice.
(What is curious is that Nader and Wallis, among others,
have long been critics of the factory system and have called for its abolition.
Yet, now they are demanding that investors build factories here.)
People do not understand that while “outsourcing” from the
micro picture looks to be bad, the macro picture is much different, as this
practice actually increases the overall standard of living here. It does not
benefit only wealthy investors, but all of us.
One fallacy that anti-outsourcing activists present is the
notion that higher costs equal more wealth. A shirt that costs $10 to make is
no more valuable than the same shirt costing $5; in fact, it is less valuable
to the overall economy, since it took $5 of resources that could have been
applied elsewhere.
Some reasons for the current wave of outsourcing are
natural; the opportunity cost of many U.S.
workers means they can find higher-paying jobs than those being outsourced.
However, some of it is self-inflicted, as law is used as a weapon, not for the
protection from wrongdoing, and the regulatory environment chokes out new
investment. The first state of affairs is desirable; the second is not, but
that is the situation that U.S.
politicians have created.
Lower-cost labor is not the only reason firms engage in
outsourcing, as the legal climate in the USA
has grown worse for business. Our tort system is literally the worst in the
world (giving us the world’s wealthiest lawyers), and the expanded criminal
code—and ambitious federal prosecutors—have turned normal business practices
into a minefield, resulting in prison sentences for executives and business
managers.
Unfortunately, neither presidential candidate is addressing
these issues, or at least is proposing real solutions. The Bush Administration
may talk a good business line, but regulation grows daily and from the
beginning this has been a protectionist administration.
Kerry’s “plan” is even worse. First, he wants to make some
of outsourcing illegal, which means that he believes that we can successfully
coerce investment here. Second, nothing in his campaign deals with the real
reasons that business owners are leaving our shores; in fact, his “solutions”
will only speed up the exodus. Furthermore, his Senate voting record reveals
deep hostility toward free enterprise and private investment. In other words,
he wants to continue the present abusive business climate—and add more burdens
on top of that.
If politicians succeed in making outsourcing illegal, that
does not mean people will invest here. To the contrary, they will send their
money overseas anyway or simply spend it at home. The real losers will be
ordinary Americans, not the politicians.
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