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<blockquote data-quote="svenski7" data-source="post: 443495" data-attributes="member: 5439">I'm not sure how I personally feel about this but I think I know what Friedman's answer would be.Friedman would maintain that the factories in poor countries provide jobs to those people. That said, the number one argument of his opponents is that, yes, the factories do provide jobs but the people are treated poorly and paid below a living wage.What if the factories left?The people would lose what little they had. Men would be forced into much more terrible lines of line -- possibly illegality. What's worse, a factory job making plastic widget with some pollution or backbreaking labor in trenches mining blood diamonds? Don't forget the part where the rival tribe comes through every so often and spray the workers up with AK-47s.---------------------------------------------In regards to the libertartards....They used to run on a platform of being able to select on your tax return which gov't programs you would like to fund.Don't like abortion/Planned Parenthood? Hate foreign aid? Don't check the box.That would work about as well as Communism in the USSR. Absolutely terrible idea with good intentions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="svenski7, post: 443495, member: 5439"] I'm not sure how I personally feel about this but I think I know what Friedman's answer would be. Friedman would maintain that the factories in poor countries provide jobs to those people. That said, the number one argument of his opponents is that, yes, the factories do provide jobs but the people are treated poorly and paid below a living wage. What if the factories left? The people would lose what little they had. Men would be forced into much more terrible lines of line -- possibly illegality. What's worse, a factory job making plastic widget with some pollution or backbreaking labor in trenches mining blood diamonds? Don't forget the part where the rival tribe comes through every so often and spray the workers up with AK-47s. --------------------------------------------- In regards to the libertartards.... They used to run on a platform of being able to select on your tax return which gov't programs you would like to fund. Don't like abortion/Planned Parenthood? Hate foreign aid? Don't check the box. That would work about as well as Communism in the USSR. Absolutely terrible idea with good intentions. [/QUOTE]

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