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Global Trade
self ^ | 03-09-08 | em2vn

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: china; strongest; trade

1 posted on 03/09/2008 10:17:41 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: em2vn
Well, if you did speak to him, why did you not urge him to do more about it?

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.

2 posted on 03/09/2008 2:34:36 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

How do you know I didn’t?


3 posted on 03/09/2008 5:01:28 PM PDT by em2vn
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To: em2vn
I really hope you did; and I hope the exec listened.

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!

4 posted on 03/09/2008 7:59:17 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: em2vn

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.


5 posted on 03/09/2008 8:01:39 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: grey_whiskers

REPUBLICANS should be out there, screaming about this.

He’s 100% right.

We’re selling our nation’s future.

For WHAT?


6 posted on 03/09/2008 8:02:07 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: mysterio

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.


7 posted on 03/09/2008 8:04:19 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: grey_whiskers

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.


8 posted on 03/09/2008 8:06:01 PM PDT by em2vn
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To: em2vn

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.


9 posted on 03/09/2008 8:23:06 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: em2vn

He must care for America. Many of his contemporaries don’t.


10 posted on 03/09/2008 8:24:33 PM PDT by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
"For WHAT? "

Everything I've read says it's about "Peace and stability."

11 posted on 03/09/2008 8:27:47 PM PDT by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: endthematrix

Peace through weakness?

Peace through selling our industry to communists?

Peace through bankruptcy?


12 posted on 03/09/2008 8:28:38 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: endthematrix

“Peace through, clinging to the path of least resistance”.


13 posted on 03/09/2008 8:42:08 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
I just watched for the first time,The President's Analyst(Paramount, 1967) where the Soviet spy Kropotkin (Severn Darden) says to Schaefer (James Coburn), "Every day your country becomes more socialistic, my country becomes more capitalistic, pretty soon we'll meet in the middle and join hands."


14 posted on 03/09/2008 8:43:44 PM PDT by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: endthematrix

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...


15 posted on 03/09/2008 8:46:04 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
"That meeting, will be a conflict."

It will be achieved by consent or by conquest. We will have that meeting whether or not we like it.

16 posted on 03/09/2008 9:00:35 PM PDT by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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