Posted on 07/26/2020 6:08:33 PM PDT by TBP
The Social Justice Warriors who run Nike, for example, pompously inform us that they are fighting “against discrimination in communities worldwide.” Not only that but they are “work[ing] every day to erase the stain of racism and the damage of injustice.”
Really, Nike? Then why do you have your shoes made by an oppressive, morally bankrupt regime? China is the ugly poster child, the living exemplar, for all of the evils that you are so quick to condemn America for.
Right now, at this very moment, the Chinese Communists are eliminating the Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking people who live in China’s Far West, from the face of the earth.
It turns out that some of these Uyghurs have been slaving away making basketball shoes with the famous swoosh on them.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
And THAT is what is going on here.
We may be headed - slowly or not so much -toward total disengagement, whatever that looks like.
absolutely correct. China will do what China does as long as they are given cover by their pals in the US media and leftist elites.
Too many depend on china to destroy their enablers....Buuuut,it would be nice to destroy the reputation of all the businesses that use slave labor....
That’s exactly why we must.
From a Breitbart article...
A report published Sunday by an Australian think tank revealed that as many as 83 internationally known brands – including Nike, BMW, Apple, Sony, Google, Lacoste, and Nintendo – have active ties to factories where evidence suggests the Communist Party has shipped Uyghur Muslims to engage in forced labor.
Maybe the leftist antifas should tear down nike, apple, and google works of (alleged) art.
Get this news out there which MSM won’t
LOOK WHO IS USING CHINESE SLAVES
Pro-Black Lives Matter Corporations
many are Using Chinese Slave Labor
in their factorys in that moslem province
using prractices which Trump condemed
7/9/2020, 2:25:08 PM · by yoe
Daniel Greenfield/Sultan of Knish ^reports on
| July 9, 2020 | Coca-Cola CEO
would like you to know that it cares
about oppression and believes America is evil.
In a rambling statement by CEO James Quincey*
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Another reason justifying really high ACROSS the board import tariffs. As if we needed anther reason.
On China, yes.
No, but on every country, yes.
Protectionism destroys economies.
China is our enemy and seeks world domination. Whatever it takes to destroy them.
So, so wrong.
Examples of protectionism that created vibrant industrial economies.
Need I go on and further embarrass you?
The GOP needs to change. People like you ( greedy corporatist globalist traitors ) are destroying ( have destroyed ) the party and the USA. I really despise radical globalist Free Traitors™ like you. Most patriots do.
I want nationalist protectionists to run the GOP again, just like they did pre WWII.
1. The PRC is not a vibrant economy; it’s weak. It’s ripe for destruction.
2. We did not build a strong economy via protectionism, and neither did Britain. In fact, a tough tariff was one of the leading measures that helped bring us the Great Depression.
I really hate this world...so much hypocrisy...so many lies...so much evil....
A tariff is weapon when other countries use tariffs on our products.
Free Trade is a Myth.
You are possibly an economic idiot. GB went beyond protectionism into pure mercantilism and GB ruled the industrial world until they gave up on themselves. Globalist POS's like took over and sold out.
Now for China. Were you born yesterday? China, and S. Korea too, went from dung burning peasants to first world economies in 3 decades at the expense of US workers and their prosperity.
Let's start by reminding ourselves of a basic fact: The Depression's cause was monetary. The Federal Reserve had allowed the money supply to balloon excessively during the late 1920s, causing it to pile up in the stock market as a bubble. The Fed then panicked, miscalculated, and let the money supply collapse by a third by 1933, depriving the economy of the liquidity it needed to breathe. Trade had nothing to do with it.
The Smoot-Hawley tariff was simply too small a policy change to have so large an effect as triggering a depression. For a start, it applied to only about one-third of America's trade: about 1.3 percent of our GDP. One point three percent! America's average tariff on goods subject to tariff went from 44.6 to 53.2 percent -- not a very big jump at all. America's tariffs were higher in almost every year from 1821 to 1914. Our tariffs went up in 1861, 1864, 1890, and 1922 without producing global depressions, and the great recessions of 1873 and 1893 spread worldwide without needing the help of any tariff increases.
Tariffs are nothing but taxes imposed on imports. Like any other tax, you know who pays it? You and I, when we buy things. That raises our cost of living and hurts our export market.
You’re right; tariffs are a weapon. That’s why tariffs on China are appropriate. Make their goods so absurdly expensive that nobody will buy them. Yes, they’ll retaliate. Fine. We have a strong enough economy to take it. China doesn’t.
But you don’t use that weapon unless you want to do damage to the other country, because they will repay the favor.
https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/why-tariffs-imports-have-been-bad-exports
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/07/31/why-tariffs-are-bad-taxes
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/tariff-trade-barrier-basics.asp
https://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2016/03/11/import-tariffs-bad-will-cost-money./
https://www.history.com/news/trade-war-great-depression-trump-smoot-hawley
https://www.barrons.com/articles/trumps-tariff-rate-great-depression-51557490916
Tariffs are a voluntarily tax which promotes domestic industry and raises revenue base on consumption and this a lone makes it FAR superior to the evils of the income, payroll and the sales taxes. There is CREATIVE element to tariffs.
Myopic greedy misguided globalists like you may be shocked to learn that the GOP wasn't always anti worker. Here is a part of the GOP platform pre WWII. The GOP should go back to this.
In the history of the nation the protective tariff system has ever justified itself by restoring confidence, promoting industrial activity and employment, enormously increasing our purchasing power and bringing increased prosperity to all our people.
The tariff protection to our industry works for increased consumption of domestic agricultural products by an employed population instead of one unable to purchase the necessities of life. Without the strict maintenance of the tariff principle our farmers will need always to compete with cheap lands and cheap labor abroad and with lower standards of living.
If black lives matter so much to these sports SJWs then why don’t they bring the factories back from CHINA and put them in lower income neighborhoods?
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