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Originally posted by bilmore
I read it as implying that this "paycheck to paycheck" thing represented an insecurity to workers now more than other times in the past. That's why I included the temporal comment.
If the statement was, that's how it's always been, then that's four minutes of my life I'll never get back.
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Touchy, touchy. Where did Club and Skekky go? They're the ones fighting over whether the voters have any interest in marginal GDP growth under trade agreements, when that theoretical growth is weighed against offshoring of jobs.
I think Skekky's got the better half of that one. When it's said people will vote their wallets, I don't think that means they vote the national purse --- it means they are risk averse and selfish, which tends toward protectionism. NAFTA got the support it did because nobody really thought their job would be exported. I think they didn't realize that Indians are just as smart as Alabamans and have better phone skills.
