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[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Graduate degree- That's Dr. science and Eva silverstein. I have a bachelor's degree in Engineering.

So you can understand the depths of my problem, let me recap how I comprehend this argument:

One of you posted a Sales pitch from a bank to encourage people to invest in some product the bank wants to sell. the poster actually posted it as evidene of it thesis, "most people don't save enough to have a safety net," w/o apparent shame in posting such shoddy proof.

Atticus posted a graph showing savings as a percentage of earnings that varies acroos the last few years from 2-5% (I didn't go back and look if 5% is the high number). My parents lived check to check, and I doubt if they saved 2%. Most people have lived like this for generations. If you are equating financial security to having 10's of thousands of dollars in the bank, guess what? The majority of the US population probably hasn't ever met this standard, pre-NAFTA.

But to take it back, perhaps showing the limits of my reading comprehension, all of this goes back to Club/Skeks argument about NAFTA and whether getting lower costs for goods would justify potential job losses for American workers in the mind of american workers.

When you guys talked about how people would vote, I assumed you meant for President, but I was wrong. You meant if the average American worker was suddenly in the Senate and asked to vote on NAFTA? Or did you mean would the average american worker "vote" by buying US product over foreign made? Help Me>

Wow. You really did miss the boat. Go back and reread my posts, the ones that explain what the other people said. If it helps, I can have it translated into Fortran.

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