Posted on 08/13/2011 6:52:27 PM PDT by Mikey_1962
I wouldn’t recommend we continue pretending the emperor is wearing clothes.
He’s not.
He’s naked. And he’s ugly. And pretending he’s not there won’t change anything.
He’ll just get uglier. And uglier. The longer we pretend he’s not there.
I’ve never worried about whether emperors are naked or ugly if they’re not there. And if everyone’s merely ignoring him, he can’t be that much of an emperor.
The fact we are sending several tens of billions of dollars each and every month to build up a growing adversarial new superpower with 5 times our population is not a joke.
Ignoring that unpleasant fact, will only make the problem worse.
It is if you think that stopping that trade will make things better for us.
Trade is paying for the Chinese military.
We do not have trade.
We have a transfer of American dollars to a communist country.
As it is, if you think that “made in China” is the big problem, vote for Obama next year. The economy’s in the dumps, but “Blame China” is owned by demagogues on the left.
Are you an importer?
“Trade” as currently practiced, oddly named since it involves only sending money one direction - is destroying American jobs, America’s security and losing our nation’s once vast wealth.
I’d say yes, that’s a big problem.
Bigger than any of those you mentioned in fact.
I know personally there is not a single American poured casting on any of the green or red tractors supposedly made here. Most of the machined components are Chinese as well.
Blah blah blah, more endless circular “free trade” logic.
China is protectionist.
It’s working.
We have an unprotected market.
It’s not working.
We have an economy that isn’t competitive anymore and a government that’s spending us into bottomless debt (financed in part by China) while it’s making our economy less competitive. You can whine all you want about the Chinese, the Japanese, the Germans, etc but the facts get in the way of your empty bombast.
You’re on the wrong side of this argument, and you know it.
No, you are. You may not know it, but only you can fix that.
I am on the American side.
No, you’re on your side. You don’t represent me at all.
A few days ago I pulled off the highway to visit an ‘Amish store.’ I only made a small sampling but it appeared that about half of the products were made by Amish in that local region of the USA and half were produced in the Amish Republic of China.
What he’s saying is that of 100% of the cost of the item 45% goes to China for the manufacture and 55% goes to American concerns for profit, transportation and retailing. Whether that’s true or not I don’t know.
During that time, US manufacturing was still in the range of close to 40 percent of total economy. A lot has changed in 20+ years.
Germany's GDP and manufacturing output did not hit pre-war levels until the late 1980's
They also have a lot of small businesses across a very large spectrum of industries. They didn't become the world's largest exporter for nothing (only eclipsed by China last year, but that can't last).
Germany concentrates on high tech, high value added manufacturing products. A good national strategy
Well, some juice is made here; I just drove by Treetop today. They may contract some lines to China; I don't know.
But the important thing is that Washington State apples predominantly are sold as apples, not juice. Passed what seemed like thousands of orchards in the Yakima Valley and Columbia River areas with many varieties of apple on the tree.
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