Posted on 03/09/2008 10:17:40 AM PDT by em2vn
Yesterday, at the gym, I had an interesting talk with a senior executive of a Fortune 500 manufacturing company that is #1 in its industry. He said that in a few years we will look back and wonder why we allowed global trade to make China, a country that wants to destroy our way of life, the strongest nation on earth. The man was sincere when he said that the quest for cheap labor will destroy our nation. He was not favorably impressed with our political or business leaders. A few moments of candor on his part were revealing.
Traitorous slime like Jack "Neutron" Welch got this trend started with their bull**** about "lifetime employability" (like the "lifetime marriageability" he gave his first wife to marry Suzy Whatherface from Harvard Business Review).
The trend was continued by Carly ("Marketing Beeyotch") Fiorina when she decreed "No American has a right to a job."
And of course, Microsoft, with Brian Valentine's "Think India! Two for the price of one!".
Not to mention Bernie Schwartz of Loral...
The guy isn't helpless. He's complicit.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
How do you know I didn’t?
What they don't seem to understand in addition, is that China's strategy is to steal the production secrets and technology, then to set up as global competitors to the US plants.
In a Communist country, it should be easy enough for the 'native' plants to get all kinds of restrictions (labor laws, funding constraints, etc.) placed on the US-based competitors; and then there's always simple bribery, and knowing *who* to bribe, among the local party officials to get "those little helps" on infrastructure and the rest.
The problem is, once the multinationals are undercut, they can't go back to producing in the US where their trade secrets are safe, and they can't whine about *quality* after spending 10-20 years indoctrinating customers that cheap sh*t from China is really the same thing, and that the differences are all in customers' minds.
Cheers!
China is positioning itself to be as powerful or an even greater superpower than the US. And they are right on schedule. Once they are sure of it, look for them to invade Taiwan to test us.
REPUBLICANS should be out there, screaming about this.
He’s 100% right.
We’re selling our nation’s future.
For WHAT?
Taiwan isn’t the issue.
1.3 billion hard-working communists, who are acquiring the (once)-might American industrial powerhouse. Are the issue.
We’re selling our nation!!
All of it. Tech. Industry. Intellectual property. Patents.
All of it.
I believe that for a foreign business to set up in China it must have a majority ownership Chinese partner. There is very little reason to steal secrets from its partner. Those secrets are given to them.
I really think most Americans (including most FReepers) are deliberately ignoring this issue.
I think people start to think about it, then realize if the man you spoke with is right (he’s right) - just how terrible that portends things will be if we don’t do something and soon - and choose to think about something else.
Meanwhile, doing absolutely ZERO about the problem, as it continues to get worse every day.
He must care for America. Many of his contemporaries don’t.
Everything I've read says it's about "Peace and stability."
Peace through weakness?
Peace through selling our industry to communists?
Peace through bankruptcy?
“Peace through, clinging to the path of least resistance”.
That meeting will not happen to the tune of Kumbaya.
That meeting, will be a conflict. A conflagration.
We’re fast asleep. Almost everyone.
As we get weaker. And weaker. And weaker...
It will be achieved by consent or by conquest. We will have that meeting whether or not we like it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.