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5 comments about The Fair Trade Fraud.

1. I bought the book because Bovard clearly wasn't one of the two-week Okura Experts. For those not familiar with the local jargon, Okura Experts are Washington, D.C. appointees who run our trade policy based on a two week stay at the Okura, a luxury hotel near the American Embassy in Tokyo.

   Like me, Bovard has been in the trenches and seen trade issues in Japan face-to-face. If you are willing to discard your media managed notions about how Japan cheats and is unfair on trade and look at the whole picture, this book is well worth the read.

   Bovard is neither an apologist nor a basher, but I'll guarantee that if you read this book, you will never look at trade issues in the same way again.




2. Bovard does a great job exposing protectionist idiocy, and his writing style makes a somewhat dry subject interesting.



3. The main thesis of this book is great and perfectly worth the effort that Bovard has made in exposing a real problem. However, you have surely never read a more repetitive book in your life. Here Bovard tackles the inefficiency and capriciousness of US "free trade" laws and the bizarre politics at the Commerce department. US trade officials make an art of penalizing foreign companies for behavior that US companies are subsidized to commit, and have attitudes toward imports that we pledge to go to war to prevent in other countries. All the rhetoric about "free" trade from politicians is swamped by protectionism in real life, with unfair and often ridiculous consequences. For example, politically motivated tariffs against imported steel, designed to save a few jobs in the American steel-production industry, have destroyed a far larger number of jobs in American steel-using industries.

   Once again, the points here are excellent but the book isn't. First, Bovard is prone to blanket statements and polemics like "The U.S. International Trade Commission is a loose cannon on the shipdeck of the American economy." Worst of all, Bovard's main point of argument is the fact that there are thousands of extremely arbitrary and unfair trade sanctions in US trade relations. That's good to know, but Bovard apparently feels the need to explain just about every one of them in a ridiculously repetitive fashion. Bovard's main points could be made much more effectively in an in-depth magazine article, rather than a rambling 300+ page book that becomes a never-ending and mind-numbing list of numbers and regulations. Bovard apparently doesn't notice that he makes the same point several hundred times. [~doomsdayer520~]




4. James Bovard is in my view the most objective, incisive investigative journalist on the planet (past or present). Like Freedom In Chains, Lost Rights, Feeling your Pain, Terrorism and Tyranny, The Bush Betrayal, and Shakedown(How the Govt screws you from A to Z), James is a master at identifying the criminal excesses of government operating outside the bounds of the Constitution sub calore juris, sub pretexto juris. James also provides enoough documentation to engender the hatred of the collectivist-socialist members of both houses of Congress and the collectivist-socialist media who would burn him at the stake for exposing them if it were possible for them to do so.
   If readers want to view a long list of abuses and usurpations which identify "what the Government is doing to us", who is responsible and why, like Lemming we are all marching over the proverbial cliff followng the leader while ignoring the greatness we once almost achieved under an almost laissez faire Capitalist system, read all of James Bovards books. he is the best!
   
   So say I,
   
   Dr. Robert Ingram Powell, Ph.D.
   w6vro@msn.com



5. If you still believe that the US is the epitome of free trade, this book is for you. (If you don't, this could be for use as ammunition) This book chronicles the harm of protectionism (higher prices) and the many shams put on by the US government in the name of old fashioned protectionism. Whether it's farms, textiles or industrial goods, Bovard highlights the problems and perils of protectionism - by whatever name it goes by.
   
   The only big issue is the book's date - 1992. A lot has happened since then in both free trade, and unfree trade. (It would be interesting to know Bovard's take on NAFTA and the recent steel tariffs) For even more politically tense works, you can read his more current bookes.

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1 comments about Innovation--The Missing Dimension.

1. I work in a business that struggles to be innovative. There's many very smart people who are superb problem solvers. This book explains why a problem solving mindset may actually interfere with listening to customers and stimulating new ideas.
   
   By thinking "who else should I invite into this conversation who might have another perspective," and "how can I get these people together and stimulate a deep conversation," I've begun to see another way to work with my colleagues that may help our organization push the envelope more. The authors offered very specific examples of these kinds of interpretative conversations.
   
   This book has good case studies about garment industry, cell phone industry and biotech. Their economic argument pushing for more public spaces where interpretative conversations can occur was of less interest and I thought weaker than their company examples.

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5 comments about Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America.

1. The author and Senator not merely expresses dire distrust with respect to the direction the Bush regime is taking but has serious concerns with respect to the crippling of the US economy if there is not a quick halt to the current trend of selling out the American people in the forms of outsourcing, and the employment of cheap foreign labour to the detriment of the working class. This he argues serves to stifle the livelihood of the working and middle class American while filling the coffers of the the wealthy, depicting a false sense of economic growth. His arguments are sound and I like this book.
   
   Some other great books: "Fluctuating Life" by Jamaican-Canadian, author, teacher and poet, Joshua Spencer and "Quest for a Dream - A Life Committed to Progress" by Jamaican educator, author, social worker and entrepreneur, Joyce Buchanan.
   
   Fluctuating Life
   
   Quest for a Dream: A Life Committed to Progress
   
   Let's Talk Africa and More



2. Of all the books I know that denounce NAFTA, CAFTA, and America's other misguided free trade initiatives, Senator Dorgan's is the only one (aside from my own COMPETITION: The Birth of a New Science, Hill & Wang, 2007) that openly advocates PROTECTIONISM! Specifically, he endorses a clever new form thereof proposed by Warren Buffett. Too few realize that Free Trade was a foolsih notion in the first place, and how essential it is that America abandon her committment to it. ASAP!



3. Senator Dorgan's book is absolutely an incredible revelation of what is happening in America to our businesses, jobs and workers. He reveals all that is slowly ruining our working class citizens, the backbone of America.
   Read this book and be in shock as I am.



4. Senator Dorgan is one of our REAL politicians who represent us in Washington. I wish I had a choice of a man like Senator Dorgan in my local races. This book will make you very angry though and be prepared to get the itch to do something about it. This book inspired me to become much more involved in Politics and activism.



5. I know Senator Byron Dorgan, and he is as honest as anyone I have ever known. This book is an eye-opening look into the Legislative Branch of our government. It should be required reading for every Senator and for you and I that Vote. It has silly legislation on almost every page that will get you upset and may get you active in the legislative process. Buy it now. Get a second copy to send to your member of Congress/Senate. Clearly they have not read it or understand what they do for our economy and Jobs.

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