Posted on 07/20/2019 11:38:03 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Spalding continued, When you look at America today, we have no telecommunication equipment manufacturers left that are American companies. When China entered the WTO in 2001, from that time period to 2017, we lost 78,000 factories. We unemployed 3.4 million manufacturing jobs. In the same time, we spent trillions in the Middle East.
We fell into this trap of believing that open markets lead to wealth, and wealth leads to democracy, and, therefore, if we just open ourselves up to the world, that the world would automatically democratize, noted Spalding. In the space of that 20 years, we essentially deindustrialized our entire country to the point where we almost cant manufacture any of the things we need to defend ourselves.
We even have F-35 circuit boards that are manufactured by Huawei, noted Spalding. Weve gone from being the most sophisticated industrial countries on the planet to being one of the least sophisticated. Theres this fallacy and belief that Silicon Valley is this great engine of innovation in the United States. All they really build are business models based on software. All the hard sciences, all the hardware, all the real science and engineering is going on in China, right now.
A revamped Space Program may provide the national focus necessary for a revitalized national industrial policy, speculated Spalding.
If we want to get back to that, we need to have a [national] focused effort. Maybe it is to go to the heavens. Maybe it is to go to Mars. But more importantly, when I got to the White House, all my colleagues that came from the Commerce Department and the Treasury Department said, The United States doesnt do industrial policy. Ill tell you what: the countries that are actually creating the things that drive the world today do industrial policy.
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Except of course he’s completely completely full of crap. We still make lots of stuff here. We’ve got like 100 automotive factories alone.
Walk out your door and you can breathe. Thats not much of an artificial environment.
I suppose it matters where your door is.
There’s nothing natural about concrete sidewalks and asphalt streets... The fact that you are walking out a door at all makes your environment artificial. It’s a difference of degrees.
Remember, youre fighting for this womans honor, which is probably more than she ever did
‘that woman is my wife; you should be ashamed...
if that woman is your wife, you should be ashamed...’
Clinton. Bush. Obama. Traitors and criminals, all.
lol
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