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But you could count shipping containers, or weigh them.

By your logic, Americans who want a strong manufacturing base should be targetting domestic manufacturers who are reducing the weight of their products!

Maybe you'd prefer the Soviet system, which would brag about increasing shoe production, never mind that the shoes they made people didn't want.

Our system has to start from individual choice and freedom. But we are living in a world and trading with many nations whose governments produce goods on the backs of the health and freedom of their own subjects, er citizens. They export their goods to us and don't buy as much from us. As a result they end up with a big mountain of our green paper they own title to, a bunch of electronic digits in their name. Ultimately, that money can be used only here. They've become just as dependent on us as we on them, more so, since we can feed ourselves and if we need to we can power ourselves as well.

Trade brings the rest of the world our way. Our real troubles are self-inflicted. No outside force forced us to use our homes as piggy banks to finance with debt the biggest consumer binge since the last days of the Roman Empire. We need to focus our efforts and our resources on things that really matter in life.

Happy New Year, by the way, and may you and yours and our Nation be blessed in the coming year and years.

Union members who think that the Democrats are on their side are nuts. The agenda calls for turning the US economy into a service economy, shipping all manufacturing and farming (except for large conglomerate farms) off shore to developing countries. What do you think NAFTA was all about?

Union members don’t listen and they don’t learn. In the neo-fascist state that is being constructed, the union members are nothing but the tools of the government that uses them to bludgeon the private sector into submission. The only jobs that will be left for union members are the service jobs, like the sanitation workers in NYC who caused the slow down of the snow clean up and caused the deaths of innocent people.

never mind that the shoes they made people didn’t want
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The desireability of a product is inversely proportional to its availability. In a planned economy such as communism, theoretically, a genius would determine the best product for that population and produce it. Then when the alternatives are not available, the “market” would demand the alternatives at very high prices regardless of their intrinsic value. Never mind there’s no such thing as a TRUE perfect genius incapable of error.

Please don’t respond to me by accusing me of advocating communism. I am not. I’m only pointing out a flaw in communism and at the same time a flaw in capitalists’ criticism of communism. At least I think that’s what I’m doing.