Posted on 04/06/2013 10:30:49 AM PDT by drewh
Miller is correct; and so are you.
yeah..and he is part of the problem by being angry at the left so his show just becomes another rambling irritant and shock for conservatives!
Again, I agree with you to buy American. However, you must acknowledge the fundamental reasons that blue-collar manufacturing jobs have left the United States - GOVERNMENT!
It’s not consumers that are the problem. Consumers will almost always purchase the cheapest product that fits their particular need and that product will usually be foreign. Our government has made simple American manufacturing non-competitive because they are involved at every level in every way. The government adds costs to every single product from start to finish.
I am not looking for an argument and whenever possible I buy American, but the slogan won’t fix the real problem - excess and out of control government. It is frightening to realize that it is cheaper to buy a plastic widget made by a machine in China and shipped overseas than it is to buy an American widget made on the same machine by an American worker. Why? Government.
Rick Perry, for all of his faults and his disappointing run for the GOP nomination, truly understands this. If you listen to him articulate the reasons businesses should move to Texas you will understand that it’s not just the Federal government that is strangling job production. It’s state and local government also.
Our nation now has a hostile environment to start or maintain a business. It’s about to get much worse with Obamacare. It is a vicious cycle that will be made worse by increased government spending as revenues decrease and that is why we are dying. A bumper sticker won’t fix it.
Actually you’ve identified half the problem.
Government.
The other half the problem is ... we’ve exported all our manufacturing to China.
Government is only half our problem. We need to fix all of it:
Stop growing government. But at the same time, bring back American jobs.
We cannot just dump American jobs.
Which is what we did.
Then what?
We should be so fortunate. No this Govement, long established, will dispose us to suffer, suffer and suffer some more. Look at at misery of the North Koreans and yet their nation is alive and well. People have an amazing capacity for suffering.
My point remains that we must get government out of the way before blue-collar manufacturing will return. Furthermore, much of the “made in America” stuff supports labor unions that form the backbone of the American left.
No easy answers and I share your sentiments, but the problem is far more complicated than choices made by consumers.
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>>>... this Government, long established, will dispose us to suffer, suffer and suffer some more. Look at at misery of the North Koreans and yet their nation is alive and well. People have an amazing capacity for suffering.<<<<
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the North Koreans are well, but your point is spot on. The founders understood that most people for most of human history lived under despotism, and it looks like we’re returning to that primordial state.
As a sidenote, I used to teach US History at a high school in the Alaska Bush, and used that premise as my starting point in teaching about the Constitution. Despotism can take many forms - and in the case of Alaska Native people, that despotism was called “tradition,” an enormous trove of sayings, actions, and beliefs that must be taken in order to ensure a secure harvest or survival. The Athabascans believed they lived in a “forest of eyes,” in which everything was judging every thought, word, or action for correctness and balance. Say the wrong thing the wrong way to the wrong person, and the game may decide not to jump into your snare, and your family starves. When most of my Native kids considered the consequences of living in a culture believing that, they suddenly embraced Natural Law and Locke a lot more enthusiastically. But for every teacher like me, there’s 100 more teaching kids that American tradition comes from slaveholders who hated Indians.
My fear is what comes next.
God help us.
I don't mean to be cynical, but he is just waiting for his Gulfstream 650 to be completed for the final EIB broadcast during flight as he heads for New Zealand...
Yes I think it is that bad, don't ask me about my conversation with a financial planner that gets it this weekend...
And how did our conversation start? El-Rushbo's ears must have been ringing, when I ask him after he told me what he did I asked, Oh do you read Zero Hedge?
Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." –William Penn.
Yeah, but imho by the end of the decade that will be turned around.
there is too much awesome technological change in the works for that not to happen.
Last year the US upped its oil production by 800,000 barrels. Same will happen this year. It does not look like that rate of increase will slow down for at least a half dozen years with the number of new oil strikes being reported.
Oil independence for the USA will do the same for the USA what it did for Brazil. Oil independence will return the country back to financial health.
Then there’s other technologies like 3d printing and advanced robotics. that on top of the turn away from outsourcing to insourcing—will change US balance of payments to positive by the end of the decade.
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