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Passing the Baton

Posted January 09, 2009 8:15 AM

While the U.S. economy enters 2009 in free-fall, globalization makes the road to recovery even more complicated and difficult. How will the new President's plans for a stimulus package affect the worldwide glass and ceramics industry? Will regulations change? Will the business environment favor some technology developments over others?

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Re: Passing the Baton

01/10/2009 1:16 AM

Hopeful a full turn around in business methods will bring Quality back into products and give them a longer useful life.

Americans can no longer carry the weight of buying the worlds production on out backs so they can use the money to improve their country.

We have to learn to live BELOW OUR MEANS and save the extra not spend it.

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01/16/2009 8:23 AM

No more Free Trade ----It only works when the trade is fair----One way traffic trade shall not be encouraged---------Moreover Technology Transfer, Royalties, Intellectual Property, Patent Infringement are real issues and a big problem with China and India other Asian countries-----So I say let us go back to Tariffs and Fees based system ----- Enough is Enough

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01/22/2009 10:43 AM

Amen! Trade deals are killing us, but are only part of the problem. When FDR enacted the "New Deal" unemployment in the private sector continued to soar. Obama's "New Deal II" will be about same. Government, especially more government is never the answer. His higher taxes on the very business that create most of the jobs, small business, are really going to hurt. Things can get worse. Outside the military, what program/s has the government ever run well?

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