Posted on 10/08/2022 6:32:56 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Another astonishing clip from the Cato Institute event today, this one from the influential Adam Posen, head of the Peterson Institute. He says a focus on domestic manufacturing is simply a “fetish for keeping white males with low education in the powerful positions they are in.”
If you understand that people like Posner want average Americans, and especially average white Americans, to be poor and powerless then everything makes perfect sense.
Sorry, Posen, not Posner.
Like crabs in a bucket.
That fat dude looks like he ate Michael Moore.
Manufacturing has always provided opportunities for the poor and undereducated to rise to the middle class. Perhaps Posner’s ignorance extends to history. In the 20th century millions of poor blacks chained to the sharecropper system migrated to northern and midwestern cities to take jobs in factories.
Textile and apparel jobs for the first 3/4 of the 20th century provided steady work in rural southern counties, allowing whites and blacks to escape the poverty of farm laborers who were not landowners.
A revitalized manufacturing economy will permit unskilled victims of America’s failed public education system to learn valuable skills on the job which will bring them economic success and escape dependency on the welfare state.
Likely Posner opposes shifting education funds from worthless liberal arts majors to vocational education as racist as well. In his mind it is better for the government to give someone (any race) $200,000 to obtain a degree in transgender studies than spend $25,000 to train an electrician, plumber, mechanic, cabinetmaker, or lab technician who can find productive work, delivering a middle class lifestyle, immediately upon graduation.
White males with “low education” - trying to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads is considered “racism.”
And Democrats wonder why the White Working Class no longer votes for them.
Posen is not ignorant.
He has a plan and he’s carrying it out well.
He’s dispossessing those he hates and he’s enriching and empowering himself and those of his ilk.
Posen does not consider himself white.
Does he mean the kind of jobs that my father, and pretty much every other man in my town had, that allowed them to support their wives and children? The kind of jobs in which they helped make something useful and valuable every day? Those kinds of jobs?
Just like their sister org the American Enterprise Institute, they are as immersed in the swamp as anyone else. Free market, classical liberalism - would you like a slightly used bridge in the Crimea.
No he means the kinds of financial manipulation jobs that his fellow Ivy Leaguers have. The other problem with manufacturing is that those kinds of things are run by deplorables with engineering degrees from Michigan State or something, guys who know how to do stuff and get their hands dirty. Ewwww! Not the kind that the Martha's Vineyard crowd would find enriching.
I guess we can all eat and drive the electronic scribblings of Cato “thinkers”. Perhaps the author is still butthurt because working class white boys pushed him down on the playground and ruined his Lord Fontleroy suit.
Can this “expert” not know that large numbers of blacks, hispanics, and other “minorities” have manufacturing jobs, and that this has been a great path to family stability and building multi-generational wealth? Gainful employment is an anti-racist social program. Is that so bad that we are better off with everyone being unemployed? The weak links of “globalization” ought to be obvious (Covid, supply chain breakdown, energy shortages and price manipulation, etc.).
I like the libertarian emphasis on personal freedom and choice, but atomization is not a workable basis for governing a large, complex society. There has a to be a balance between macro and micro scale interests. The US COnstitution is a framework for exactly that process.
Another reason why I left the LIBERALarians, those people are screwed up!!
He/Posner says a focus on domestic manufacturing is simply a “fetish for keeping white males with low education in the powerful positions they are in.”
“If you understand that people like Posner want average Americans, and especially average white Americans, to be poor and powerless then everything makes perfect sense.”
Last but not least if we have degrees from good schools.
Those degrees, schools and grads, are considered to be trash by the Ivy League, Stanford, USC and the London School of Economics and Political Science, education thugs.
“fetish for keeping white males with low education in the powerful positions they are in.”
“And I had always made the comfortable assumption, yes, if you’re black or even Jewish, you don’t want to be driving alone in Alabama, sure”
All of these globalist/leftist Jews seem to have it in for whitey for some reason. How is just having a decent paying factory job a “powerful position”? Seems like he’s the one with a “powerful position”, and he’s using that position and influence to screw over those who are beneath him economically.
Wish I voted for Perot.
Libertarians hate America as much as the Left does. The only difference is that they think an overclass of Nietzschean Ubermenschen entrepreneurs should control the serfs instead of a political party.
I think you are completely misapprehending Mr. Posen.
I doubt he was ever on a playground with working class white boys and even if he was he knew all along that he was intended to rule over them, and he does.
Posen understands perfectly well that manufacturing jobs have been a path to family stability and building multi-generational wealth.
He doesn’t want those things for most Americans. In fact, he is opposed to them.
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