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Wednesday, April 20. Alan Tonelson discusses “The Race to the Bottom: Why a World Wide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards.” 7:30 p.m. First Parish Church. Free...
...patent secrets is heightened by Chinese demands that foreigners share their know-how as a condition for doing business in China. "The real danger is that America's best companies will be forced to sell their technology crown jewels to foreign competitors in exchange for market access," says Alan Tonelson of the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington...
...fire-breathing cover story in the July Atlantic, Alan Tonelson of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington think tank, denounces the "irrelevance of our recent foreign policy, and even its victories, to the concerns of most Americans." The U.S., he says, should junk the idea of "exercising something called leadership" and "insulate" itself from the disasters of the Third World. He would also have the U.S. abandon "overseas missions that, however appealing, bear only marginally on protecting and enriching the nation." The list of activities he believes so qualify includes "promoting peace, stability, democracy and development around the world...
...Tonelson's piece is an extreme example of a widespread sentiment. The American labor movement is in a protectionist mood. So are many members of Congress. Local officials, bedeviled by deficits and cutbacks, fulminate at the idea of U.S. aid to the former evil empire. At a recent meeting of the National League of Cities, Sidney Barthelemy, the mayor of New Orleans, said, "The Federal Government needs to shift its priorities from continuing to assist and aid everybody outside America ((while)) ignoring the problems inside America...
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