{"id":726,"date":"2004-06-21T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/06\/one_more_thing_to_think_about\/"},"modified":"2004-06-21T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2004-06-21T17:40:07","slug":"one_more_thing_to_think_about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/06\/one_more_thing_to_think_about.html","title":{"rendered":"ONE MORE THING TO THINK ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been making the rounds<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>
\non the Web for a long time. But it’s a parting thought for our red-white-and-blue
\nsummer:<\/P>
\n


\n

A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it’s a free market.<\/P>
\n

A toy company can outsource to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it’s a free market.<\/P>
\n

A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it’s a free market.<\/P>
\n

We can buy HP Printers made in Mexico. We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh.<\/P>
\n

We can purchase almost anything we want from many different countries.<\/P>
\n

BUT heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian (or
\nMexican) pharmacy. That’s called un-American.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

Gone fishing.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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