Posted on 11/29/2013 6:22:47 AM PST by kristinn
Chinese state media say China has sent two fighter planes to investigate flights by a dozen U.S. and Japanese planes in its newly established maritime air defence zone over the East China Sea.
It is thought the incident is separate to China's announcement that it would carry out regular patrols in its air zone.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Agree.
RE: We should. The sun would still rise in the morning, but a lot of other potential problems would be solved.
Well, I hope you will be happy paying several times more for the products you use today because that is essentially going to happen when we write a law banning off shoring of American products.
We are running out of time. At some point the Dragon will throw down. When the fist container ship goes down the Free Trade GloBULL BS ends. I hope I see it - soon. I will be ROTFLOL when the inevitable happens.
Again for possible penetration, tariff is not a four letter word.
I agree with you.
People, wake up,
Moving on to 5-axis (and beyond) machining, that CNC stuff and their cutting speeds around the curves - very smooth as blades through water can easily make bubbles ... very bad.
Just pause, however, and ask "Just where is the workforce, a trained workforce, to populate these "returned" factories? And just who will be training these people?
Just askin' - as the seed corn has been eaten, and as with shipping your backlog, you only get to do that once.
There is no going back.
Very well said.
This so called “free” trade has also virtually ruined many communities and entire small towns. I’ve seen this myself first hand. We have areas FULL of closed down factories and businesses that stand as monuments to this insane and failed trade policy.
People here that would have otherwise worked are now in the ranks of the FSA(Free Shit Army). ‘Food Stamp’ use has increased by 20-35% since the year 2000 in ours and surrounding counties. Most of the younger people move away immediately after high school. My wife and I would have too, if we hadn’t managed to find good paying jobs here, which are very few. Our ‘social safety net’ has prevented outrage over this by the victims of it as the welfare benefits have masked the pain and reality of it all. If it weren’t for that, we would have had people in the streets with torches and pitchforks demanding a stop to it long ago.
RE: Again for possible penetration, tariff is not a four letter word.
Been there done that. See here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/642710/posts
About 10 years ago, Bush Jr. Imposed tariffs on IMPORTED STEEL to protect steel making jobs in America ( who found it hard to compete against steel makers overseas ).
According to Prof. Walter Williams, looking in hindsight:
It is estimated that it costs Americans something like $800,000 a year to save a $55,000-a-year job. Does that make any kind of sense whatsoever? It doesn’t. It would be better — I would much rather see Congress enact an Aid to Dependant Steel Workers Act or an Aid to Dependant Textile Workers Act and give them — let’s say in the case of steel people — give them $75,000. Say, “Just go lay out on the beach and enjoy yourself.” That would be cheaper than $800,000 to save one job.
It also disrupted the businesses steel USING companies in the USA making it difficult for THEM to compete. RESULT: They had to pay higher prices for the steel they used ( and had to layoff workers as well ).
Guess what happened in the end? The policy was so disastrous that the tariff was REPEALED after over a year.
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I’d like to hear a little feed back on the scrambled jets.
Since 90% of manufacturing is done by NON UNION workers, the tariffs mostly protect average Americans that make meager wages. The cost saving of using foreign slave labor is not passed on the consumer. It is a lose-lose situation for the middle and lower economic people in the USA. Every factory that closes creates more socialists and weakens the US and is a tragedy. Free Traitors are worse then the most leftist Commie, more damaging the Reid, Pelosi and Obama. They are backstabbing economic terrorists.
"Free Trade" has done more damage to the USA than any other enemy.
People as you’re shopping in the coming month:
Randomly pick 5 things to check, when you are in (any) store, in (any) town, shopping for anything.
Pick that item up, turn it over, and look at where it was made.
That the the nation, you are supporting with your purchase.
Granted a lot of manufacturing towns are democrat hotbeds. But there where a lot of republicans mixed in. You go to what's left of a region with no manufacturing supporting them and they are ALL SOCIALSTS now, on the dole. Sad. I hate "Free Trade".
I didn't know the AP was officially charged with recognizing China's claim.
Institute a massive layoff in American regulatory agencies.
The military is our best labor pool. Factories made to be exported to third world countries can be brought back. It is a matter of willingness.
There is no going back.
There is going forward.
How exactly does a pair of Chinese fighters scare away 10 Japanese fighters and 2 American surveillance planes?
Get the FedGov out of our way and we’ll be able to compete again.
All of these actions are representative of capabilities with a sublayer indicating tactical capabilities. None of that will be transparent.
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