Posted on 07/20/2019 11:38:03 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Spalding continued, When you look at America today, we have no telecommunication equipment manufacturers left that are American companies. When China entered the WTO in 2001, from that time period to 2017, we lost 78,000 factories. We unemployed 3.4 million manufacturing jobs. In the same time, we spent trillions in the Middle East.
We fell into this trap of believing that open markets lead to wealth, and wealth leads to democracy, and, therefore, if we just open ourselves up to the world, that the world would automatically democratize, noted Spalding. In the space of that 20 years, we essentially deindustrialized our entire country to the point where we almost cant manufacture any of the things we need to defend ourselves.
We even have F-35 circuit boards that are manufactured by Huawei, noted Spalding. Weve gone from being the most sophisticated industrial countries on the planet to being one of the least sophisticated. Theres this fallacy and belief that Silicon Valley is this great engine of innovation in the United States. All they really build are business models based on software. All the hard sciences, all the hardware, all the real science and engineering is going on in China, right now.
A revamped Space Program may provide the national focus necessary for a revitalized national industrial policy, speculated Spalding.
If we want to get back to that, we need to have a [national] focused effort. Maybe it is to go to the heavens. Maybe it is to go to Mars. But more importantly, when I got to the White House, all my colleagues that came from the Commerce Department and the Treasury Department said, The United States doesnt do industrial policy. Ill tell you what: the countries that are actually creating the things that drive the world today do industrial policy.
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‘Didnt he shoot an elephant in his PJs?’
you bet your life...
How he got in his PJs, I’ll never know ...
‘They are high-diving each other in their walled/gated mansions by the pool’
well, if they’re high diving, the pool is the place to be...
The scale of Los Alomos, Hanford and Oak Ridge projects at the same time and completed in that time frame, is really good reading.
There was a reason for it. It was an enormously expensive undertaking that could not result in any long-term human settlement except in completely artificial environments.
It is taking at least 8 years to design and build the prototype replacement of the SR-71 an airplane that was designed, built, tested and activated in about 5 years using sliderules, paper and pencil.”
Well there is a lot of truth to what you say, supersonic flight is a tricky, tricky thing to master and the margins for error are slim.
All America can do today is reminisce and superimpose the Apollo rocket onto the Washington Monument.
My trade proposal proposed that:
1. building components subject to building codes be US made
2. the motor vehicle trade be financially balanced
“except in completely artificial environments”..
Like where we all live now.
It sounds like AOC’s Green Deal remarketed to me.
LOL
I’m 51 and I have been a fan for AT LEAST as early as my early 30s and maybe more.
20s, I think.
But I am trying to remember how I started watching them.
Dad didn’t watch their movies and no one else did either in my family.
Abbott and Costello and The Honeymooners I saw because pop was watching them. I don’t recall with the Marx Brothers.
Anyway, i have, I’m pretty sure, EVERY ONE of their movies on DVD.
“Remember, you’re fighting for this woman’s honor, which is probably more than she ever did”
lol
I don’t even think they could pick what kind of people to send.
Too many people cant pick a restroom.
We have become babbleland.
Not unless Trump goes himself.
They would gladly help him go.
I guess I am referring to congress.
No doubt about it being tricky but so were all the things the SR-71 did when it did them.
Without faulty auto-correct, our posts wouldnt be half as good...
Cisco sells over $50B of telecom equipment annually and is the second largest producer in the world.
This guy is an idiot and thank God hes retired.
Where do these guys come from and who finds them???????
The African explorer?
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