a Spalding basketball is made in China if you buy it at Wally's or if you buy it at Target or at Sears... same-same
Posted on 11/26/2011 6:01:02 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
Want to consider something for a change, rather than simply accept mass advertized "free trade" propaganda from Walmart during this season, to be buying crap made in China?
Yes, I said forget it this year. A few books, some silver eagles, and that’s about it. My family is going to be shocked. Good.
It worked well in the ‘30’s.
We should try to weaken China any way we can.
Actually, I’d prefer just to keep Chinese stuff out of our country.
So enact import tariffs and let Americans make Christmas presents for other Americans.
We are giving away our nation.
If we don’t stop it, the free world ends. Forever.
We’re the only thing standing between freedom, and slavery.
We’re it. Nobody will come to our defense.
Think about that.
We’re it.
Takes the Americans' hard-earned money right out of China's pockets...and sends them to Washington DC to fee the leviathan.
So your solution can be best summed up this way: "We need to punish Americans again, good and hard?"
Well, no, not if it discourages them from importing the stuff so Americans can buy it. That’s what we need to be doing — finding a way to stop the flow of Chinese junk into our country.
It doesn’t discourage anything, it just makes Americans pay more for things. All things. And who skims the cream? Uncle Obama.
You really don't know what you're talking about do you?
Just admit it, you have limited knowledge on this subject and just regurgitate knee jerk talking points in sporadic vanity posts that rarely if ever display a learned understanding of the issue. The views you advocate on FR when it comes to manufacturing/tariffs sound right out of the union playbook. Bernie Sanders and Ed Schultz say precisely the same things you do. In fact, it sounds to me like you are in fact a union supporter.
Have you been to China? In what ways would you say modern China resembles a classic marxist/leninist state when it comes to economic policy? Were you aware that the Chinese provinces are deeply indebted and when the current spending spree ends (and it will end), the result is likely to mean the relative domestic peace Beijing has maintained through artificially increasing employment may will crumble. Do you really know anything about this topic other than the progressive left and protectionist right talking points?
Americans are never going to go back to being forced to buying overpriced union garbage. It's just not going to happen.
Your reference is somewhat disgusting.
a Spalding basketball is made in China if you buy it at Wally's or if you buy it at Target or at Sears... same-same
That’s the problem.
Make them here.
I wasn’t making political remarks about China for one...and when my kids were young, China was still in the middle ages...Thats WHY. The article was “IS AMERICA’S CHRISTMAS ABOUT CHRIST.” or didn’t you read the headline...It said nothing about China, do you have a reading comprehension problem?
Are you sure?
I choose to ignore the stupid part....GG
Ah, well. December 25th is a pagan holiday, anyway. No one knows the true date of “Christmas”, nor is there any biblical command to celebrate it, or even a mention of celebrating it.
Apostate and commie countries always collapse. China will be no different, because Christmas is about Christ, still.
Actually, thanks to free trade and globalization, we probably have more choices than ever when it comes to automobiles. The auto market is VERY competitive and foreign auto companies operating in non union states do just fine. For those that have a foreign car, there is a good chance that was made right here in the USA by American workers.
No longer are we forced to buy from Detroit. They now have to compete. Had GM and Chrysler been allowed to go into proper bankruptcy, they likely would have emerged even stronger with no bloated union contracts at all. And if they couldn't make it, some other company(s) would have bought the remains and created something productive and competitive out of them. Instead the government (Obama) protected the labor unions and gave GM and Chrysler a stay of execution instead of forcing them to get their act together properly.
It sounds to me like you are a union guy who hates competition for the same reasons labor unions do. You even package your agenda the same way. I could go to auto union websites and hear the same spiel. On this issue at least, you sounds absolutely no different from Bernie Sanders, Ed Schultz or every other rust belt union hack who blames free trade for their lack of competitiveness.
OK let’s try to break this down.
What exactly is “stupid” about America making things here rather than sending our once-magnificent world leading manufacturing base to China?
You do realize do you not, that Germany has not done this, and is once again now the strongest nation in Europe.
Does it not make you stop and think that the nation we fought two world wars against, is not allowing their industrial base to be destroyed for CONVENIENCE?
Have we forgotten so quickly?
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