Posted on 02/13/2011 4:06:39 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
It is time to face up to the elephant in the living room, which for some reason conservative Americans are desperately determined to ignore.
"Free trade" is destroying America.
A generation ago, America was the world's preeminent power. We led the world in manufacturing. Technology. Space. Innovation. In every way, America was the best.
In a single generation, we have squandered that heritage, and now are deeply in debt to a communist nation which just one generation ago - rode only bicycles.
WTF will it take, to wake Americans (particularly conservative Americans, who should know better) up to the very real danger of stripping America of everything which made her great?
Same with a company I used to work for...Made products for Mexico and China who used our parts to put into gadgets that were shipped back here...
My company finally realized their profit margin would jump if they moved our manufacturing to Mexico and China...
Good luck to ya...
Wrong, wrong, wrong, nanny nanny foo foo.
I ask you what 1+1 is and you insist it is 3.
It is a simple question and is the low bar to any discussion about economics, micro or macro.
You are ignorant.
Please don’t pass your ignorance to others. It is damaging.
You have no basis for your opinions. They are just vapid words tossed out with no meaningful basis.
Really, stop.
We must place our faith in our government. Only it can decide what is best for us. There, people much more intelligent than we can determine what is best for us in our day-to-day lives. Why the reluctance? Embrace the power of the government.
Actually not true. There are socio-economic costs that come with semi-slave labor. Such as keeping peace, lower productivity, lower quality of produced goods, social tensions and constant threat of insurrection and unrest.
Last year there were 20,000 ‘incidents’ they had to handle China-wide. You never hear about it but it does go on. All those things combined cannot compete with a deregulated, highly efficient operation we could run here if we could get rid of gooberment interference.
“You are ignorant.”
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Fair enough. And you are arrogant.
I’ll state my beliefs as clearly as I know how, with all the conviction I in fact hold them with.
You go on believing what you will. Which mostly seems to be, in your own superior intellect.
It’s a free country.
The regulations are part of the Free Trade model. Why else would companies like GE lobby for more govt regulations. Because they know they can open plants in China while their smaller competitors have problems.
Unless you have your way, right?
You are referring to your heroes, the Chi Com government?
Look.
I’m a single lone voice in the wilderness.
I’m about as far from having my way, as it is possible for a person to be.
I am outnumbered, out spun and out financed by those who rake in massive profits selling America’s future.
But I’m not about to stop. :)
America first!
Otherwise, if someone like China or India has a resource (labor or otherwise) which is cheaper (even if because they are undervaluing it), non purchase of that resource weakens our markets because we are artificially propping up domestic labor and resource markets at the sacrifice of consumers.
Has this always been the case...yes. A study of the British Empire and its colonies provides a huge pile of test cases.
Must domestic industries compete with and adapt to foreign supplies of labor and resources?
Well, duh!
Gee, a ten percent import tariff is the end of the free world.
I don’t think you are understanding my point.
This isn’t an “opinion” — it is a FACT.
If someone gets on and starts posting about physics, I expect them to understand and answer questions about basic trigonometry and vector math.
If someone starts posting about chemistry, I expect them to understand fluid mechanics and answer questions about how chemicals combine and under what circumstances.
If someone starts posting about engineering, I expect them to understand what F=ma means and what G means under different circumstances.
If you post about economics I expect you to know the very basics: Q vs S as opposed to QD vs QS. If you do not know this very basic concept then you are merely doing baby talk.
As I said, it isn’t my opinion — it is a FACT. You either know economics or you do not.
You do not.
Very weak. Particulary weak, even for you . . . and I keep my expectations at a very low level.
Simple economics eh. When all the jobs are gone then people don’t have any money to buy stuff.
When people don’t have money to buy stuff they go on welfare.
OK that’s your opinion.
I felt bad about not putting a smiley face on my post. Now honestly thanks, for the opportunity!
:)
America first.
Profits for a few, regardless of consequences...
Profits over principle..
Nothing else matters, as America lay nearly dead on the floor.
Tarriffs that high at this point would utterly destroy the economy. Example from my own industry: where are you going to buy electronics components in the US these days? There are very few even made here! And it takes many months to ramp up a new factory, even if the capital was available and it made sense economically.
You'll just Smoot-Hawley us to death, as I said earlier in the thread.
End of the world for me, unless you are "patriotic" enough to pay my share. And I buy domestic products.
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