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发表于 2004-12-27 20:57:05
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Argu228 The following appeared in a newsletter from a political organization.
'In order to promote economic growth in the city, city residents should vote 'yes' on the state government's proposal to build a new expressway linking the outlying suburbs directly to the city center. A direct link to the city center will enable downtown businesses to receive deliveries more frequently, so that downtown retailers will no longer run out of stock and city manufacturers will not be affected by shortages of materials. Booming businesses will attract qualified workers from all over the state, workers who will be able to take advantage of the new expressway to commute to work in our city. In addition to these advantages, hundreds of workers will be employed to build the expressway, further stimulating the local economy!'
为促进本市的经济增长,市民应该对州政府关于建造直接连接郊区和市中心的新高速路的提案投赞成票。到市中心的直接连接将使中心商业区的货运更加频繁,从而中心区的零售商就不会再断货,市内的生产商也不会受到材料短缺的影响。繁荣的商业将会从整个州吸引合格的工人,工人可以利用新的高速路在本市上班。除了这些好处,上百的工人将被雇佣修筑这条道路,进一步促进地方经济。
The proposal of the arguer is premature as it stands. Before following the author's persuasion to agree with the proposal to build a new expressway linking the suburbs to the city center, the city residents should be told more details about whether it is needed to budgets on the project of expressway and to what extent the expressway will benefit the local economy.
The arguer's assumption was that because the direct link to the city center will enable the deliveries exchange, the downtown retailers and the manufacturers will not have shortages of selling stuff. Nevertheless, whether is it often the case that the retailers or manufacturers afflicted by the shortage of selling? Maybe there is seasonally shortage occurring every year or maybe the shortage of selling products is just an aberrant in particular month? If this is the case, the excess delivery of products will definitely put the retailers and manufacturer to an embarrassment: the products cannot be sold out.
In addition, even assuming that shortages of products and materials are common, whether the building of another expressway will do favor to solve the problem is still open to doubt. If the traffic in the city is pretty good in that time or the deliveries of products have always been frequently and enough to supply the demand of retailers and manufacturers, the another expressway leading to the deliveries "more frequently" is meaningless, especially considering the huge project of building another expressway will exacerbate the burden of taxpayers, say, all the city residents. If this is the case, the building of gratuitous expressway will decrease more than stimulate the local economy as a result.
Furthermore, the arguer unfairly assumes that the booming businesses will attract workers form the state using the new expressway to commute. First, how the business in the city called "booming"? Retail and manufacture are only two in myriads of industries. The improvement of the delivery of products for the retailers and manufacturers do not assume that the whole business is booming. Second, even if the business is booming, it does not necessarily prove that the qualified workers will be attracted from all over the state. The working satisfaction, the climates of the working residence, or the nearer working place to one's home may be more attractive for a worker. Third, it is not most important for workers to take to commute as the arguer cited. If another way is nearer and faster to go way working, why bother taking the new expressway just for saving five or six minutes driving? Maybe the time spent driving to the new expressway will cost twenty minutes or even more!
Finally, due to several reasons such as price or service attitude, the workers building the expressway may be workers from other cities in the state or even from other states. Does if mean that the building of the expressway stimulate the extraneous economy of other city or other state rather than the local economy? Even if the workers were hired locally, to what extent the several hundreds of workers benefit the local economy is still a question. Moreover, if the project benefits the local employment, what those workers do in the building time span? In fact, the building job lasted for one or two years at the most.
Overall, the argument is not persuasive on several aspects discussed above. The government should take the responsibilities to make a further investigation about the reason hampering the increase of local economy, and the city residents have the right to know it. |
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