The harder questions
August 29, 2008 at 8:55 p.m.
What Ted said:
Politics lends itself to facile issues, to facile answers. The problem is you've got the rhetoric and you've got the reality. The rhetoric is, you've got candidates talk about bringing all those jobs back and not giving tax breaks to companies that send jobs overseas. The problem with that is that it only tells half the story. One of the reasons America has been able to keep inflation down is precisely because WalMart imports all that stuff out of China, and Vietnam and Bangladesh and all the other places. What I really want to ...
