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Excerpt from Strengthening U. S. Export Competitiveness, Industry Views: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session; November 8, 1995 Mr. Chairman, I would just like to make a few points and then I will be interested to hear what the witnesses have to say. In leading up to this from our conversation in the back room a few moments ago, I do not believe exports, in and of themselves, are the holly grail. I think that a lot of people have gotten their values screwed up in this whole debate. Exports can be a very positive thing. It can be a very positive thing for our economy, but at some levels, exports, while positive toward the economy, can be negative toward other elements of our society. No one would have, for example, suggested that we build Hitler's freeways for him before World War II and that that would have made Hitler any less of a Nazi. Even though building freeways for Hitler is infrastructure, it would have permitted him to have spent more money on Stukas. I happen to believe in free trade between free people. I have no problems when free peoples are trading with one another in a very open way and making profit from one another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.