I declare myself a patriot. We need a manufacturing base. Not only do we need to save the Auto’s we need to bring back manufacturing in a big way. If this financial crisis has demonstrated anything, It demonstrates that our ‘evolved service economy’ will not work and will destroy not only the economy but the middle class in this country. All the financial pundits on television and in print are supporting a stimulus package on infrastructure. They know we can not trade mortgage papers in order to climb out of this economic grave...this country is languishing in...we must build stuff. Such a plan would not be necessary had we promoted our manufacturing sector instead of essentially destroying it.
What good is “free trade” if you make nothing to trade?
I think this is the reality facing many of your Free Trader/Globalists right now. The reality is that their economic ideas do not work...and need government to bail them out
Just as the Eastern Europeans realized that Communism was a failure, we need to realize that our Free Trade/Globalist policies are failures. The American economy needs to be re-Americanized
“Just as the Eastern Europeans realized that Communism was a failure, we need to realize that our Free Trade/Globalist policies are failures. The American economy needs to be re-Americanized”
That may be the smartest thing I’ve read in a long time.
I agree. My FU emails will increase no doubt. Free traders promised America that we would not lose jobs...We lost jobs. Now they tell us we don’t need those jobs anyway. The free trade globalists have much to answer for-they not only were wrong, they lied through their teeth and refused to admit their many mistakes. ‘Illegals take jobs America won’t do’...tell that to the thousands of Americans seeking jobs who lined up at a chicken plant in GA after the illegal workers were arrested. ‘We will be the idea people.’Tell that to Techies . who have lost many jobs to H1B visa holders who are needed to to do the jobs America is to stupid to do according to free traders like Gates of Microsoft. There are liars, damn liars and then the liars of free trade fame who have bankrupted this country.
