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?
All the more reason to keep their trash out of our country.
“Nuts”.
Just saying...
I won't do it anytime. If we don't buy their stuff, they lose money.
I thought I did answer your question. I buy stuff from everywhere all he time.
Are you asking me if I am a wholesaler? No, just a lowly technician in a large company, wanting to live a comfortable life with my wife, which you apparently want to make more expensive. And I am quite sure from reading your many posts on this topic you would say I am for sure a part of the problem. Tough.
>> And think how far we have fallen.
I share your sentiment, but...
It’s not the consumers’ fault. Americans are too proud and too entitled to make widgets. If you believe otherwise, start up a widget factory — assuming you can survive the bureaucracy, regulations, unions, etc.
We need import tariffs.
Otherwise the world will simply take everything American.
All of it. And we’ll be finished.
No other nation is practicing true free trade. Only us.
That’s otherwise known as unilateral surrender.
Agreed.
Another devastating and eviscerating response!
I need to get a little sticky note and a big fat magic marker to jot down your pearls of wisdom.
I bet I could fit every accurate thing you know on one note without using the back.
Now if you really want to impress somebody give a few responses that don’t bring drool to mind.
Nuts was one of American history’s single most famous lines. Ever.
I somehow doubt you even know that.
If people didn’t have last years Christmas buying to recover from and this years Christmas buying coming up, spending would even out throughout the year. I doubt that the savings rate would go up without Christmas spending.
>> We need import tariffs.
That only masks the problem by jacking the cost of goods, and feeding payroll welfare. The idea of fair trade is preferred to raising the price of imports. Import tariffs only creates short-lived, artificial competition.
Bureaucracy, regulations, and unions are primarily responsible for the woebegone manufacturing in America.
FWIW, I fully support unions in the private sector, but unfortunately, they end being their own worst enemies. If it were not for the competition of Japanese imports, we’d still be manufacturing ATF burning rust buckets.
Yeah, but coming from you it just comes off as stupid.
Imagine that.
However after “baloney” it should have been expected.
Correct.
When Patrick J. Buchanan ran back in 1992 and won maybe we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in now.
Buying imported communist Chinese crap.
Happy Kwanzaa.
We have only your say so, that what you say is true.
I think we’ve already seen quite clearly, what we’re doing now isn’t working.
I say we have enough data. Time for import tariffs, and American jobs.
You are never going to get anything factual or informative out of Cringing on this topic. A well meaning pro-American guy I am sure but, aside from union talking points, consistently offers very little of substance in these frequent vanity rants.
It seems like he watches a patriotic movie and rushes to the forums to rail against the red threat and demand everyone buy American without thinking through the subject matter really at all. No thought about why American manufacturers became uncompetitive in the first place, no consideration about how unions went from arguably useful to downright destructive, no concern that US consumers have the freedom to buy a product that is as good as what the Chinese or anyone else offers at a comparable price, etc. Instead you get union/progressive/protectionist talking points wrapped in nationalism to disguise what they'd really mean if such policy were adopted.
While I may disagree with them, there are at least some intellectual arguments to be made for things like additional tariffs - unfortunately you will never hear them from Cringing. Instead you'll just get what is essentially boiler plate "buy American no matter how bad the product is" union propaganda.
Nothing I’ve ever posted has been pro-union.
I have never belonged to a union. Communist China is a union.
Nice attempted red herring though. That is the globalist, “free trade” talking point, is it not?
America first.
Of course I’m stating an opinion, but don’t expect the consumer to pay 2 to 5 times the cost for product.
I would recommend breaking the back of bureaucracy, criminalize union entanglement with the state, deregulations, and a tax structure that reserves earnings for investments and payroll instead of feeding the state hogs.
Your strongest rebuttal posted to Longbow yet.
I give it a .25 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Considering the source, thank you.
I’ll take that as a good solid 5.
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