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PAGE FOUR—Sapulpa (Okla.) Herald, Thursday, November 11, 1993
Editorials
The end of it
It’s time for Oklahomans to get off the back of Gov.
David Walters. He has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor
and agreed to pay a fine in connection with his 1990 elec-
tion campaign. That should be the end of it.
Yet, there are still those who want more. And it all seems
to be so terribly unfair. For instance, one of those who
pleaded guilty gave too much money to unsuccessful
Republican candidate Bill Price. So, shouldn’t Price’s
campaign get the same scrutiny as Walters’? And, why
stop there? Why not investigate other candidates’
campaigns, too?
It seems like what is happening now is that stories and
issues are being “manufactured.” A judge is quoted as
saying he may want to “set aside” their pleas. Republi-
cans, and what else can you expect, are talking about resig-
nation and impeachment, just as the Democrats in
Congress did during President Nixon’s time. That’s poli-
tics, and despite the $800 suits and $300 shoes, it ain’t
pretty. It never has been pretty.
The Lawton Constitution
Too much?
Oil companies make huge profits — literally billions of
dollars every year — pumping oil out of Alaska and ship-
ping it to the West Coast. Yet they balk at spending a
comparable pittance for environmental and safety reasons.
The industry doesn’t want to pay for state-of-the-art
tractor tugs to escort huge oil tankers in and out of Prince
William Sound, which has only recently recovered from
the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Nor does the industry
want to pay for emission controls to remove benzene
pollutants from air around Valdez.
Oil companies make a profit of about $4.95 for each
barrel brought out of Alaska. These two safety and envir-
onmental protection measures would eat up a penny per
barrel in profits. Yet the industry insists that the risks do
not justify the added expense.
This from the same industry that decided its spill
response team wasn t cost-effective — one reason no one
was prepared for the Exxon Valdez disaster.
The pollution controls may not be absolutely necessary
the emissions at Valdez fall within legal tolerances. But
no one should be able to argue about the wisdom of using
high-tech tugs to guide tankers safely to and from port.
Such tugs are already used in Puget Sound and other major
global ports.
After getting so much from the land, is it really asking
too much for the industry to do its best to safeguard the
environment?
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Legislators knew they’d be short of
money in ’93. That’s why they spent
it last year.
The same reason lawyers have large
firms is why wolves hunt in a pack.
Things have been so quiet for George
Bush, he now knows how Quayle felt
the last four years.
Quayle may go back into politics or a
first for him.
GM claims there’s nothing wrong
with their gas tank. It’s the gas that’s
too flammable.
If they wanted to make cars safer,
they’d make one that wouldn’t let a
drunk start it.
Mercedes will start building cars in
the U.S. and probably next door to a
medical college.
Opinion
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Good for business
New population projections from
the Census Bureau show, once again,
that America will grow more rapidly
than expected. The change from last
year’s all-but-ignored projections are
small but important; the change from
five years ago is stunning. We are
moving away from a demographic
glide path that was heading from low-
growth, to no-growth, to population
loss. The new trajectory is something
quite different: ongoing, moderate de-
mographic liftoff. The implications are
powerftil, affecting business, econom-
ics, social policy and geopolitics.
Consider the difference in projec-
ing businesses, the effect is salutary,
dwarfing any temporal good econom-
ic news. Thus, it’s nice to hear that
the Gross Domestic Product is slight-
ly higher and the budget deficit some-
what lower than expected. But more
population growth offers big-time and
long-term meaning: more customers.
Eight million more in the 1990s will
yield a “customer boom,” in some
ways similar to the 1950s.
For example, look at housing and
real estate, suffering now from a con-
dition described as “overbuilt.” That
is only another way of saying “under-
populated." The 8 million extra Amer-
variegated nation, bubbling every
which way. Latinos will be the largest
minority population by 2010. Asian-
Americans are growing the most
rapidly, from a low base. Many recent
immigrants are from the Islamic na-
tions. Blacks are arriving from the
Caribbean and Africa. The end of the
Cold War brought many additional Eu-
ropeans.
All this offers food for speculation.
Such a hurly-burly and tumultuous so-
ciety must have solid rules, and
reward those who play by the rules,
as President Clinton has stressed. But
the rules must be the same for every-
The value of more population can be argued pro and con in many ways.
But for business, certainly for existing businesses, the effect is salutary,
dwarfing any temporal good economic news.”
tions issued in 1988 and 1993: The ear-
lier one showed the 1990s as a
slow-growth time with a net add-on of
17 million people, the lowest number
in recent decades. The revisions show
growth of 25 million people, only
slightly trailing the record-setting
Baby Boom 1950s.
Longer-term changes are starker.
For the year 2010 — not so far away
— the earlier projections showed 32
million more people; now it’s 49 mil-
lion. By 2015 we will have grown by 62
million — adding one France!
The earlier projections showed a
plateau by about 2025, and population
diminishment thereafter, reversing
America’s oldest trend. The new line
shows 337 million people, 86 million
more than the 251 million of 1990.
Amen! We remain a vigorously grow-
ing nation, as ever.
The value of more population can
be argued pro and con in many ways.
But for business, certainly for exist-
Wiiliam Rusher
icans will live somewhere and work
somewhere. They will fill up the ex-
isting stock (including the infamous
“see-through” office buildings) and
then trigger more building, and more
sales of drapes and dishwashers, let
alone bicycles, clothing and Halloween
candy.
Why are we growing? Two major
reasons: more immigration and higher
fertility, much of which comes from
newer immigrant groups.
The extra immigration — legal im-
migration — comes from the Immi-
gration Act of 1990. The birth rate has
increased across-the-board, with the
biggest rise occurring among His-
panic Americans. The 1988 projections
were based on 1.8 children per life-
time per woman; the current projec-
tions are keyed to a 2.1 rate. (Fertility
began going up exactly nine months
after the publication of my book, “The
Birth Dearth.”)
And so, we are becoming a more
one, which Clinton finesses. Quotas
can be a disaster in a nation as di-
verse as America. Are we to have af-
firmative action programs, with goals
and time tables, for newly arrived
Lebanese, Russian Jews and Sri
Lankans?
As we become more variegated, we
perforce become more international-
ist and more involved. America is the
first universal nation, and growing.
That is the central reason we are the
only superpower. That is why our des-
tiny is manifest. That is why America
is first. We shape the world because
we are the world. Isolation is idiocy.
Clinton’s stirring internationalist
speech about NAFTA at the Kennedy
Library got it right: “I tell you, my
fellow Americans ... this is an age
many generations of our predecessors
would have prayed to live in. These
are the challenges so many of our pre-
decessors would have longed to em-
brace. How can we turn away from
them?”
Say yes to trade pact
Both Houses of Congress will
shortly vote to approve or reject the
North American Free Trade Agree-
ment, and it is time for everyone in-
terested in public affairs in this
country to stand up and be counted
on the issue. Let me, then, go on
record as urging Congress to approve
NAFTA.
One of the great central themes of
modem American conservatism has
been the preferability of free trade to
protectionism. The basic analysis
goes back to Adam Smith: Everyone
is better off in the long run when mar-
kets, rather than governments, de-
termine prices. A tariff on Italian
shoes (for example) “protects” Amer
ican shoe manufacturers, but results
in every American paying more for
shoes than would otherwise be the
case. The same goes for men’s shirts,
automobiles, and indeed every other
commodity.
lotting the international market de-
termine prices, on the other hand, re-
sults over time in each nation
concentrating on producing what it
can do best and most cheaply — to
the benefit of buyers everywhere.
What has happened in recent years
is that, thanks to technology, the
nature of what America can do best
has been shifting: from basic manu-
facturing (at which many other coun-
tries can now compete with us
successfully) to all sorts of high-tech
enterprises at which we can run cir-
cles around almost everybody else.
This has unquestionably resulted in a
certain amount of damage to some
traditional American businesses, and
will inevitably result in a certain
amount more if it is allowed to con-
tinue (as NAFTA would do).
The only alternative, however, is to
rig the market to “protect” politically
powerful American businesses, to the
immediate detriment of consumers
and the long range detriment of the
entire American economy, which
would be doomed to continue outdat-
ed economic practices while the world
outside rushed on to a more efficient
future. If we have the courage to lower
the barriers to free trade with our
North American neighbors, our econ-
omy will right itself again swiftly and
generate far more jobs than will be
lost.
Naturally the big unions dread
NAFTA — not so much because ex-
isting union jobs will be lost but be-
cause they can’t be sure of unionizing
the tremendous number of new jobs
that will be created. So President Clin-
ton, who is in bed with the unions on
just about everything else, is totally
dependent on Republican votes to pull
NAFTA through both the House and
the Senate
I hope he gets them. This is no time
to play politics. If the Republicans join
the majority of their Democratic col
leagues in shooting NAFTA down,
there will, to be sure, be a certain
TV defines children programming as
anything that comes on Saturday
morning.
amount of egg on President Clinton's
face. But long after it has disappeared,
the historians of our time will re-
member and say that on this major
issue the congressional Republicans
simply and cynically abandoned their
free-trade principles.
I am well aware that some conser-
vatives fear that the so-called “side
agreements” (on the environment,
etc.) that Mr. Clinton has negotiated
in order to placate his Democratic
critics have turned an essentially good
arrangement into an engine for inter-
national control of important eco-
nomic decisions. But the arguments
are dubious, the alleged damage is re-
mediable, and the benefits of NAFTA
vastly outweigh minor objections to it.
Repeatedly, in recent months, I
have noted prominent conservative in-
dividuals and organizations opposing,
on one tendentious ground or anoth-
er, measures that have long been ad-
vocated by the conservative
movement as a whole. Before this
column can even be published, the
California school voucher initiative —
the most promising effort ever made
to rescue American education from
disaster — will have been shot down
by a disgraceful coalition of the Na-
tional Education Association, a hand-
ful of “libertarian” conservatives, a
Christian home-school lobby, and the
Republican governor of California.
Don’t let it happen to NAFTA.
Searching
for facts
in NAFTA
We are tracking, today, one liber
al’s independent odyssey to judgment
along the old NAFTA trail.
It’s my trip — and it starts with
those dueling television ads chocked
full of statistics that alternately
shriek “Apocalypse Manana!" or
promise that prosperity is just
around our southernmost corner
They focus on what will happen once
we enact the North American Free
Trade Agreement, which will basi
cally eliminate tariffs between the
participants. America now charges
an average tariff on imports of 4 per
cent; Mexico's is more than two and
a half times higher.
Click: “Economists who’ve studied
job loss say we’ll lose up to 500,000
jobs to NAFTA ... NAFTA: It’s a bad
deal for America and Americans
know it." That’s the doomsday sce-
nario served up by the AFL CIO.
Click. "What would you think if the
United States made an agreement
that saved 700,000 American jobs and
created 200,000 new jobs?... NAFTA
Good for jobs, good for us." So claims
the TV ad paid for by a group of U.S
corporations that call themselves
USA-NAFTA.
The numbers in both ads contain
only a touch of truth. They draw upon
the worst- and best-case scenarios
that the ad makers could find. They
should be labeled “GDP” — Gross
Distortion Pleading. It is the new way
ad makers lie to us without lying'
Check it out: The AFL-CIO ad s
claim of 500,000 jobs lost was based
upon a prediction made by the Eco
nomic Policy Institute, a liberal think
tank that gets large funds from orga
nized labor. It assumes American
companies will invest a whopping $44
billion to shift jobs to Mexico — an as-
sumption shared by few other econo-
mists.
Check it out: The corporate ad
makers’ claim of saving 700,000 jobs
is based upon a government figure of
U.S. jobs “supported by" the $40.6 bil
lion in U.S. exports to Mexico last year
~ as if those exports would disappear
if NAFTA were to be defeated.
Some 300 economists, both liberals
and conservatives, have signed a
letter to President Clinton supporting
NAFTA. They reviewed dozens of
analyses and wrote: “The effects on
the U.S. economy — both good and
bad — would be small for many
years.”
Here is what we know:
• We have this increasing problem:
Thousands of jobs have already gone
south, from the United States to
Mexico - without NAFTA. U.S. com
panies are finding it advantageous to
move production to Mexico, where
minimum wages are so much lower
and companies are required to spend
little or nothing on environmental
cleanup - without NAFTA.
• We have this potential: Exports
worldwide have generated nearly all
of America’s new manufacturing jobs,
writes Paula Stern of the Progressive
Policy Institute, a Democratic-orient
ed think tank that supports NAFTA.
And since Mexico began to open its
trade policies in 1987, U.S. exports
there have tripled. In 1992, Mexico
became the third largest market for
U.S. exports and “surpassed Japan to
become the second largest for U S
manufactured goods."
We need to enact NAFTA as a best
hope for America’s working men and
women in this era of global economy.
And we need a new generation of pro
gressive labor leaders who can force
fully pressure the president and
Congress to meet tomorrow’s test
That test: When the macro-econo
mists total their numbers and report
NAFTA indeed produced a net posi
tive impact - a net gain of jobs - we
must remember the thousands whose
jobs will indeed be lost to Mexico, as
thousands have been before NAFTA
L. M. Boyd
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A. Same month the fewest couples
are married - January.
Rodney Dangerfield hasn’t been
the only public figure to crave
respect. None other than that English
man of letters J.B. Priestly wistfully
noted: “There was no respect for
youth when I was young, and now
that I am old, there is no respect for
age -1 missed it coming and going."
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