As an international businessman, I am appaled at the ignorance, naivete, and obtusness of many of my fellow Americans. Asia is kicking our a$$ from Malaysia to Singapore, to China. Americans just don't travel very much
and fall easy prey to propaganda out of DC.
We have been screwed on every "so called" free trade agreement we entered into.
I may not know much, but I do know that someone wants to turn this country into a third world shithole. We have people chanting the mantra of 5% unemployment. Hehehe, if they only knew. People have told me that these figures are gathered by phone calls! Actually these figures are derived from the Unemployment rolls. You exhaust your benefits, drop off the rolls, and therefore no longer count as being unemployed. I know enough unemployed/underemployed people.
The koolaid drinking ostriches simply will not admit that we're being conned. Right now they're safe. They have no problem buying China's goods, and championing the notion that this is good for our economy. China has been our sworn enemy long before radical Islam reared its ugly head.
I have a personal distaste for buying merchandise made by prisoners, or children getting paid 30 cents an hour. Now watch someone chime in on how much the same article would cost if made in America. People didn't have a problem buying American made goods made by Americans, because we didn't have the socialist manipulations of our economy to the extent that we have today. There simply isn't that much being produced in America these days, so why bother comparing?
Of course our greedy overlords whine about the "underground economy". Would that be handcrafting candles and whatnot, and selling the product at a swapmeet? I know a couple of people who adapted(went back to school) after their jobs were shipped off, only to find that age discrimination is practiced everywhere.
I'm starting to think that that cheeseball movie, "Red Dawn", isn't that far off the mark...