Americans did this to themselves.
They could have saved, but instead spent $$$ on imported TVs, etc.
They could have bought from traditional stores, but went for cheap prices at WalMart and Target.
They bought Japanese and Korean cars when they could have bought US built cars.
Etc.
We COULD have demanded “Made in America.” Then the unions dared us to buy foreign.
it all began long, long ago, pardner, and...it the beat goes on...
I can remember as a kid watching Victory at Sea, the Twentieth Century, etc.
Hundreds of American warships stretching to the horizon, made here with everything from the steel to the guns to the parts in the radios made in America.
Untold thousands of fighters, bombers, gliders and transports churned out like Pez machines - upgraded on a regular basis by American engineers and industry.
Guns, tanks, beans and bullets as well as every other thing needed to fight a war produced in profusion.
After the war, cars, radios, steel, atomic bombs, jets, you name it.
Now we change the oil in each others imported cars, listen to garbage music on Chicom I-whatevers, propagandize our kids in politically correct Gov schools and sit on our fat asses waiting for Gov checks on the first of the month.
What went wrong?
every US president does the same thing
they want Russia, China, etc,
to play nice.
How does a president get that?
they Sell Out the American worker.
every tine, all the time
This is the will of the ruling elites. Nuff said.
Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs really nails it in this speech. He points out how PETA inflics more pain than is necessary, and shows how OSHA gets in the way of effectiveness. Most important he talks about how we’ve relegated blue collar jobs to the level of a joke. He ends by saying that we are screwed if we don’t start teaching our kids to build something and get their hands dirty.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2650612/posts
“We don’ need no stinking Arsenal of Democracy”