This is the raging a-hole who said white blue collar America was a moral cesspool that deserves to die.
I refuse to even click on the link and contribute to the fantasy that article traffic means people agree with him.
FUKW.
See what welfare begets? Why bother to work when the taxpayers are forced at gunpoint to subsidize your inactivity?
Well, he is right on this issue.
We have bought quite literally TONS of stuff each manufactured elsewhere.
So that is on us.
Ever notice how the pundits and political elite can never make a rational argument?
They just toss out emotives to maneuver the weak-minded into feeling 'bad' if they don't agree.
I don’t hate them, but I do think our country would be better off if we weren’t so dependent upon imports. More people employed, more wealth created and retained in the domestic economy. Cheap is only going to get us so far. There will come a point when even cheap isn’t cheap enough for so many lacking the income to buy much of anything.
Wait... In the U.S. (pop.: 330 million; 7.5 million cars sold per annum), only about two-and-a-half times as many automobiles are sold than in Germany (pop.: 75 million; 3 million cars sold per annum), which has less than a quarter of the population?
Regards,
1. In any financial transaction, buyers will seek the lowest price possible for the type and quality of a product or service they are buying. At the same time, sellers will look for the highest price possible.
2. An employment arrangement involves a "buyer" (the employer) and a "seller" (a worker).
3. One of the simple realities of an economy is that a worker will usually demand far more for his/her services than he/she would ever pay another worker for the same services.
Point #3 underlies almost every policy decision that is made by a government, and every business decision that is made by a private employer, in an advanced country like ours where labor costs are extremely high. "Free trade" gives us the ability to do things in a foreign trade situation that we'd never be allowed to do under the law right here in the U.S. -- namely, paying workers less than our statutory minimum wages, buying products that are made in factories that violate every environmental standard under our laws and fail to meet minimal worker safety standards, etc.
No, I don’t “hate” China.
No, I don’t “love” my stuff.
I have no problem buying things made in other countries. They are filling the void left by our government to enrich themselves. I would do the same thing.
I do have a problem with trade deals that put us at a disadvantage because the other side has benefits that we don’t because of the taxes and regulations imposed on us by a feral federal government.
So yes, I hate our federal government for being the traitorous bastards they’ve become.
I’ll throw in that during this campaign season, I’ve come to despise The National Review, another cadre of traitorous bastards.
If flip flops were made in America, you would buy one pair and then never have to replace them because they wore out. America is capable of making very high quality highly durable products and we generally do. That which is made in China is generally puposely built with a short life span via “planned obsolescence”. Your Chinese flip flops may last you the summer. This is an imperfect analogy of course. I have observed this planned obsolescence to be especially prevalent in wal wart kitchen gadgets. I am convinced that the manufacturers sit around in meetings devising ways to make their junk fall apart faster and more effectively. That is one of my biggest problems with foreign goods, it’s all junk and I don’t know that our landfills can sustain this trade policy for much longer.
“Kevin D. Williamson is roving correspondent for National Review.”
Williamson is a pygmy columnist who fancies himself cut from the same cloth as H L Mencken. He is not. He wants to write rough and tough but he lost out on the intelligence aspect. He shaves his head as compensation.
I’m sure everyone here remembers the first wave of Japanese cars that found their way onto America’s roadways.
They were junk. They were cheap. And we bought them by the tens of thousands because fuel prices were high and there were virtually no American made cars that could compete on fuel efficiency.
And while it has taken decades for American auto makers to finally build cars that could compete with the Japanese, it wasn’t on fuel efficiency alone, it was on quality.
Imagine that.
The Japanese were smart enough to reinvest their money in those early years into building vehicles that people trusted and became the symbol of quality and reliability.
Hyundai has followed the same business model. Their first wave of cars were complete crap. But they were cheap and we bought them just the same. Now Hyundai has some of the highest quality vehicles on the road.
Will the Chinese follow the same business model with the products they sell in America?
Not likely.
The Chinese have been selling boat loads of crap to Americans for more than a two decades and I will challenge anyone to name one Chinese brand that they can count on, much less, recognize for quality.
Most of their crap is rebranded American names/designs that have only denigrated the American names/brands they project.
They, the Chinese, work for US and they will continue to work for US as long as their government wants to play a role.
Simply based upon the fact that in America economic thinking trumps political thinking thus we are dying. Those who think only in economic terms are ever victims of those who don’t.