{"id":428,"date":"2004-07-30T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T19:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/07\/30\/distorting-facts-about-us-trade\/"},"modified":"2004-07-30T14:15:50","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T19:15:50","slug":"distorting-facts-about-us-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/07\/30\/distorting-facts-about-us-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Distorting facts about U.S. Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a390'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/0407\/fe.bl.truths.shtml\">this<\/a><br \/>\n which purports to answer 10 truths on trade.  While the statements have<br \/>\n some kernel of truth (doesn&#8217;t everything these days?) it looks like<br \/>\n such utter bunk.  I can imagine some right-wing advocate writing this<br \/>\n in trying to quell the &#8216;public&#8217; regarding the &#8216;truth&#8217; on offshoring, imports<br \/>\n and jobs.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Let me tell you this whole article, especially the bit on offshoring<br \/>\n and IT from this article smells like a pile of crap.  I bet you if we<br \/>\n reversed the situation around and offshored any job that was CxO or<br \/>\n had the title Director in it this article would have a HUGELY different tone.<br \/>\n Perhaps, something like &#8220;Oh My Gawd! The Sky is Falling!&#8221;  As long as we&#8217;re<br \/>\n at it how about outsource all journalist type jobs to 3rd world countries.<br \/>\n I bet you the hydra that is the modern press would be screaming out at the<br \/>\n top of their lungs for some sort of protectionist measures.  Anyways,<br \/>\n I should stop venting.  It&#8217;s not fixing the U.S. economy at all.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/0407\/fe.bl.truths.shtml\">Read it yourself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this which purports to answer 10 truths on trade. While the statements have some kernel of truth (doesn&#8217;t everything these days?) it looks like such utter bunk. I can imagine some right-wing advocate writing this in trying to quell the &#8216;public&#8217; regarding the &#8216;truth&#8217; on offshoring, imports and jobs. Let me tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}