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...Ratio of the average salary of a Japanese CEO to that of a Japanese blue-collar worker...
...They were determined to make it in America, to achieve everything that any immigrant to this country has ever wanted - to own a home, to buy a car, to send their daughters to college. And they were determined to achieve this dream at almost any price. Their blue-collar jobs left them physically drained; negotiating their way in a country whose customs they did not always understand left them emotionally exhausted. They bickered constantly...
...demanding debt relief for the world's poorest countries. Heavy-handed policing has, however, for the most part allowed the annual meetings of the bank and fund to proceed unmolested. Still, images of riot policemen dragging young Americans off the streets of the nation's capital, and of blue-collar workers making common cause with turtle-hugging environmentalists has reinforced the idea, in the public mind, that there are many Americans unconvinced about the virtues of globalization. "Like the earlier Seattle protests over trade, the Washington protests have certainly put issues of the world economy...
...Buchanan has somehow managed to avoid the oblivion of the fringe. For starters, his philosophy of "economic patriotism" is based on ideas that are popular across the political spectrum. On issues such as free-trade and globalization, Harvard students should keep in mind that in addition to millions of blue-collar workers, Buchanan can claim the sympathies of Ralph Nader, and even to some extent, our own Professor of Government, Michael J. Sandel...
...Michigan, McCain stressed his plan to devote a majority of the projected federal budget surplus to shoring up the Social Security trust fund. This played well among the state's blue-collar workers, exit polls showed...