I have never been a union member.
But if Republicans don’t stop blindly supporting the systematic dismemberment of our national productive infrastructure under the mantle of “free trade”, it won’t matter.
Because middle Americans, p*ssed off at the sell-out, will elect Democrats.
Who will stop it.
Sure, they’ll foul up everything else, and then we’ll really be in a pickle — but selling American jobs to the lowest international bidder is hardly a winning election strategy for the GOP.
Just look at the last elections.
Post #29. Over $1 trillion in exports. Some dismemberment. LOL!
yay let’s kill the economy. everyone lose their high paying jobs because of this fantasy that manufacturing jobs are better. Look, eventually all these manufacturing jobs will be completely automated.
Who is “selling” our jobs, the government or the corporations that own the jobs?
No one seems to realize that with the current standard of living in th eUS and our tax burden as a percentage of incomes, we (the average US worker) simply cannot compete with Chicom workers averaging $80-$150 USD / month income. Besides, what fools out there thinks that the US government is going to reduce our tax burdens after inflation skyrockets (and it's headed that way now) and the standard of living in the US heads the other way?
Sure, there's always going to be rich people in the US, but, how can a retail/ service sector based society function if the average worker can barely afford food, housing and medical care?
Import taxes were in place to protect the American worker with his job and add revenue to the gov's coffers....to level the playing field against countries with lower standards of living selling their goods here.
All of it is a sham to allow international corporations to gain huge profits by allowing duty-free imports back into the US, while at the same time, using US monies from it's citizens (stock investments) to build new factories in cheap labor markets.
You don't have to be a f'n rocket scientist to figure that out. Our politicians have been bought off, sold us out, and we're gettin' the weeny.
This and it's first cousin "open borders" are why the GOP will suffer badly in 08. Think 06 was bad? Wait till the 08 results are in. W has pretty much killed the GOP (and the nation).