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Posted on 02/13/2013 4:49:14 AM PST by expat1000
This.
Great writing.
Well, we still have manufacturing capacity. But it’s a whole lot more expensive.
Yeah...try buying a TV made in the US.
Very much of what we are witnessing today. The one big difference between now and the late '70's is that this generation can't recognize that incompetence, and instead just want their entitlements without the hard work.
Yes, thanks to our growth sector- government.
Two things:
One: that was some great writing.
Two: when are we going to wake the heck up, and change? We cannot continue to export our means of living. We just cannot.
We need import tariffs, and we need to return American industry.
I would love to see this man run for president.
Greenfield writing in Sultan Knish brought up a subject and memories which has always been a sore point with me and that is the Pananma Canal...One of the reasons I prefered Reagan over Ford and was running around getting signatures for his first primary run.
I wish Greenfield didn’t use that example because we lost it. Now the Chicoms have a huge stake in its operation perhaps that’s what Greenfield was aluding to. But didn’t conclude his opus with that conclusion although Piers Morgan is about as bad.
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>>I wish Greenfield didn’t use that example because we lost it. Now the Chicoms have a huge stake in its operation perhaps that’s what Greenfield was aluding to. But didn’t conclude his opus with that conclusion although Piers Morgan is about as bad.
I see the piece being not about the loss, but the lack of any enthusiasm, and perhaps even ability, to build great projects anymore due to the misdirection of resources into “entitlement” programs and the bureaucracy supposedly required to administer them.
Living in an ethnic Chinese dominated country like Thailand, it’s hard for me to even say that word “entitlement” - it’s a completely foreign concept here. People certainly want their freebies, but there’s no sense of being entitled to them.
“We need import tariffs,”
All that import tariffs do is to try to remove any competition to bloated, unionized, over regulated, domestic industry.
We MUST begin to COMPETE with imports. Why should I support a company who insists on putting its corporate headquarters in the most expensive cost-of-living cities in the country? Why subsidize union non-work rules? Why subsidize states which continue to elect representatives who either support the EPA/OSHA/CPSC/EEOC/ADA bureaucratic impediment machine or are too spineless to trim these agencies & regulations back to something reasonable & sensible.
Also, the money collected in import tariffs go to feed the government beast that got us into this mess in the first place.
Before you call for import tariffs, why not start a “Buy Red State, Non-Union Only” movement? (yeah, I know, that message on a bumper sticker will get your car ‘keyed’ or your tires slashed by those tolerant liberals)
Or much of anything else, for that matter. Even if it's assembled here, the parts are made in China or South Korea, or some other Asian country. Somebody conducted a study to identify the "most American made car." The winner was the Toyota Camry, which is assembled in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Well, not exactly. It was the unions. They're the textbook example of a couple of tired old cliches: "it's outlived its usefulness" and "you can have too much of a good thing."
We should have finished the “Great Wall of Texas” by now.
The unions are the government now, and vis a vis. Our ‘government’ has given unions carte blanche to plunder domestic industry in return for electoral monkey wrenching.
America needs import tariffs like it needs a hole in the head.
You cannot return American industry by imposing tarrifs. That would just enlarge Government and create another Welfare sector.
It isn’t Free Trade that’s driving manufacturing jobs overseas.
Massive corporate taxation, limitless legal vulnerability, crushing environmental regulation and pro-Union arbitrary Government: these are why industry chooses to locate away from the USA.
Protectionism would be the final nail in the coffin. The last vestiges of American industry would be turned into feather-bedded welfare cases, and freeborn Americans would be forced to buy their stuff from the Government store.
Protectionism would also increase Government power. The Democrats would collect all of that lovely tariff money and spend it on union pension bailouts or some damn thing.
America has tied its own hands behind its back with a ludicrous knot of EPA regulations, crushing taxation and arbitrary Government (just ask Gibsons guitars and unpasteurized dairies).
America needs to untie those knots - not wrap itself up in more of them in a fit of misplaced faux-patriotic anger.
But even if Government is not rolled back, the fracking revolution offers a ray of hope. In about two years the fracking energy revolution should bring industries (re)locating close to the energy sources. ‘Eagle diesel’ is already having a salutary effect on US transport costs.
Hope this was helpful.
Kudos for an excellent, well-argued post.
I am honestly amazed we haven’t seen American blood shed to maintain access to the Canal. I still think it possible within my lifetime.
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