Posted on 10/26/2015 5:37:15 AM PDT by expat_panama
Donno, singin’ the HeHaw song was a lot of fun you know...
Polio eradication was the goal of volunteer civic organization in 1985 that was a gift to the children of the World. This was planned, organized, implemented by volunteers (without pay)and raised funds to carry out this project.
Yes governments from all over the world helped and contributed funds and assistance. Yes Bill Gates Foundation supported this and gave millions. As did many others.
Please remember that individuals from all over the world organized, managed, kept the focus on the goal, raised funds, actually did the field work in giving out the polio vaccines and more.
These individuals were Rotarians.
Can you imagine any government accomplishing this in 30 years?
What a steaming pile. Free Trade, which is really Rape Trade, is destroying the USA industrial base. Does anybody really think these international corporations pass on cost reductions to the US consumer when they exploit turd world stoop labor? How stupid are we?
What about quality? When was the last time you looked at a box that said Made in China and thought "Wow I'll bet this thing is really well built." LOL
F the world I only care about the USA, which is being hollowed out by gloBULList cartels. If that makes me a troglodyte then well so be it.
I like my iPad, which unfortunately was made in China. Very high quality product.
Sure pick and choose an example like an I-Pad assembled by suicidal Asian coolies. The vast majority of Chinese produced goods is crapola.
Think the Rotarians could take on a new goal? Put God back in schools?
Maybe not, troglodytes are actually pretty successful; but you were probably taking issue w/ what the article said:
Despite the no-knowthings who go around complaining that “we don’t make things here anymore,” the United States continues to make the very best of almost everything and, thanks to our relatively free-trading ways, to consume the best of everything, too. General-price inflation, the bane of the U.S. economy for some decades, is hardly to be seen. Flexible and effective institutions helped ensure that we weathered one of the worst financial crises of modern times with surprisingly little disruption in the wider economy. Despite politicians who would usurp our rights, our courts keep...
This all boils down to a conflict between fact and feeeelings.
What happened in the first wave of offshoring is the import tariffs were reduced to nothing but Asian countries erected all kinds of trade barriers that still exist today. So the US worker had no chance in rigged game.
The cheaper product is an illusion also, the idea that all of a sudden that a screw driver made in the USA would cast $100 and one in China $5 dollars = pure propaganda. So this illusion of cheaper products came at the expense of cheaper materials, workmanship and engineering. All of these things went to the corporate bottom line and now we have 100 million unemployed. Yeah things are so great. The whole gloBULL trade thing was a hoax bigger than gloBULL warming.
So there are two regional jets available, you can fly on one made in China or you can fly on one made in Seattle; which do you choose?
Do you think the American public would buy the $5.35 US-made screwdriver, if they were side by side on the hardware store rack?
Technically true, but "in context" - your comments can only be processed in one way. Now morally, in a lot of ways we are worse off. But, in context of the article - where freedom and liberty have over come immoral ungodly evil totalitarian regimes, we are morally better off on some level.
Context is everything.
If that's the case, then I probably should have read the article. LOL!
I don’t know what rock or cave the author has been living in, but the world is a big $hit sandwich right now waiting to be devoured.
False economy, false leadership, Middle East about to explode, Europe on the verge of being driven to WWIII, China provoking everybody, Russia filling the void in Syria & ME, Socialism/Communism taking over every gov’t it possibly can....
But things are “better than ever”!
LOL!
Why don't these naval gazers convene meetings in places like Somalia, Burkina Faso, Laos, etc.? It spreads the wealth.
The world has always been tumultuous. Pretty much the norm throughout history.
ICE to Buy Interactive Data Corp. for $5.2 Billion
Intercontinental Exchange agreed to buy Interactive Data Corp. from Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus for about $5.2 billion, ending the financial-data provider's bid to go public.
I would, absolutely, and a very small tariff would make them the same in price. :). I would have legislation that would make it abundantly clear where a good was made. PREDOMINATELY displayed Made in So and So on the FRONT.
I can't tell you how many car parts etc. I had to re-buy when the Chinese/Asian failed or were crappy. You end up buying the cheap things twice. I bought Khoumo tires once(china) and the steal belt was defective, could have blown up. The thing is it was a manufacturing defect, the belt was simple too short for the tire circumference which would be plainly visible in the factory.
Not all Asian is bad, I will buy car parts from Taiwan and Japan. That is it for Asia though.
Yes, I do. For inexpensive purchases such as your screwdriver, I generally check where things are made or assembled if that info is printed on the item or the item package. I choose the American made product if the price is about the same and it appears to be of equal or superior quality.
One thing American marketers could try is to say (true or not) that foreign products contribute to carbon and other pollution because they are shipped all the way from Asia. The hype about globull warming is all manmade hysteria (AGBS) but that sort of advertising might resonate well with the Green eco-fanatics.
For if they would, someone would already be making and selling it.
Personally, I am happy to pay a little more for USA made products, and products made in countries where quality control is a virtue (South Korea and Germany have done well by me in that regard).
But I want that to be a free choice by me as a consumer, not something I am compelled to by a tariff.
These attacks tend to bolster that observation. Both within the span of 10 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_bombing
The Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building in Los Angeles, California, on October 1, 1910 by a union member belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. The explosion started a fire which killed 21 newspaper employees and injured 100 more. It was termed the “crime of the century” by the Times. Brothers John J. (”J.J.”) and James B. (”J.B.”) McNamara were arrested in April 1911 for the bombing. Their trial became a cause célèbre for the American labor movement. J.B. admitted to setting the explosive, and was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. J.J. was sentenced to 15 years in prison for bombing a local iron manufacturing plant, and returned to the Iron Workers union as an organizer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing
The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds.[1]:160-161[2] The bombing was never solved, although investigators and historians believe the Wall Street bombing was carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year. The attack was related to postwar social unrest, labor struggles, and anti-capitalist agitation in the United States.
The Wall Street bomb killed more people than the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times, which was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to that point.[3]
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