Posted on 11/10/2006 8:33:03 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
I have nothing against low prices. As I told Gslob, I am against trading with Communist countries on moral and national security grounds. We also can't compete with slave labor. Rather than containing Communist revolution/expansion, we are subsidizing it.
You pose some interesting arguments. I don't have the time to do the homework, though plenty has been written on the subject.
See, but here's the thing: In the world according to Todd everything is fine. Just humming along daddy.
However, in the real world, folks are really feeling the squeeze. Not vague anxiety due to media hype, but an actual in-the-bones fear of what the future may hold for them and their children.
This is the kind of fear that pols ignore at their peril.
...one more thing, there's a reason why a half-wit populist like Lou Dobbs has resonance for a lot of people -- because he's among the first guys to come along and say, "Hey, something is screwy here and it isn't your fault."
The next guy to come along won't be a halfwit. He'll be a guy who really targets those fears and he'll rip the system apart.
Where did I say that? I only asked for proof that jobs were actually lost. Can we improve the way things are humming along? Sure. EPI probably doesn't have the answers you'd like. Or that would work.
This is the kind of fear that pols ignore at their peril.
Obviously the only way for conservative politicians to survive is to act like liberals. How well did that work last week?
He speaks their language, half-wit
- because he's among the first guys to come along and say, "Hey, something is screwy here and it isn't your fault."
It isn't your fault. I heard that before somewhere.
The pols can't stop the outflow of jobs to China at this point anymore than they can stop the influx of illegals.
Let's be very clear here. These are large, very complex forces at work. The world is re-making itself and a lot of folks are going to get hurt. They'll grow old and bitter waiting for things to return to the way they "should be" or "used to be."
Am already doing it, but one person is a drop in a bucket.
I try to do it too, but it is getting increasingly difficult to NOT buy good made in Red China.
Which nation produces oil & gas, produces gold, has large foreign currency reserves.... AND would benefit most from USD being dislodged as the world's top reserve currency? With it being replaced by gold and the Euro.
Ever go into a Harbor Freight tools store?
Great links. Thank you.
What will "evil" China do?
FORECLOSE?
LOL!
With their hoard of T notes they could cause disruption. And evil they are without "".
When you said,
"We should not be sending wealth created in freedom to a Communist dictatorship no matter how tempting the returns."
you exposed your ignorance about the way our trade with China actually works:
(1) China sends us flip-flops.
(2) We pay with dollars.
(3) Some of those dollars (now owned by China) are invested in the US.
Can you explain how those actions "...send... wealth..." to China?
Didn't think so....
Well, you see, the Chinese manipulate their currency so that it's undervalued by 40%. So you should have said that they send us $10 worth of flip-flops and we pay them $6. Like most schemes used by Communists, this is the best way to accumulate wealth. Make stuff and sell it for a 40% discount.
The U.S.
Try again.
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