Let's look at the auto industry. Through innovations like computer design, automated manufacturing processes, plastics, etc the US auto industry is strong. Consumers have more choices in vehicles, profits are high, life-cycles are short and quality is at its best.
If we would have listened to the protectionists in the 1980s, our car companies would have been protected, stagnant and dead meat when finally exposed to Japanese competition.
You did not answer my question.
Erik, I'm sorry, I'm not trying to attack you, but that is the big lie. Why do you guys insist on that pi$$ poor example?
Nobody is trying to deny other nation's access to our markets. I'm certainly not. What I do think is wrong, is that our workers are having to compete with with people, who's standards of living are almost non-existant, for wages.
Why do you think it's such a great idea to put your neighbor out of work, just so you can find a great buy? I've never understood that logic. It's the ultimate 'me first' attitude, one that is as embarassing for me to watch, as it is devistating to our economy.
We have flooded this nation with tens of millions of poor. We have undercut our workers ability to make a living on a number of fronts. We allow nations like China to charge 40% tariffs on our exports, then gift them with all the business they can handle.
I guess I'm from the old school, but I'd rather have a guy down the street make the goods I purchase, than children - political prisoners and the military in China.
I may not own as much, but I'll sleep a hell of a lot better.
"Let's look at the auto industry. Through innovations like computer design, automated manufacturing processes, plastics, etc the US auto industry is strong. Consumers have more choices in vehicles, profits are high, life-cycles are short and quality is at its best.
If we would have listened to the protectionists in the 1980s, our car companies would have been protected, stagnant and dead meat when finally exposed to Japanese competition."
Oh yeah, the auto idustry is strong. Japanese cars out sell US cars by a huge margin in the US and there is a good reason for it. They know what American consumers want in an automobile better than detroit does. And they still build a superior product for less, and they have outsourced their workers to robots.
What in the world are you smoking?
For all intents and purposes we have no US auto industry.