Posted on 08/29/2019 6:03:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan
...Somewhere along the way I quoted Senator Sanders' assertion that China has "made more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization". Almost everyone on the right objected to Bernie, but many seemed awfully confused as to the precise grounds. For the first half of the People's Republic, Mao moved a lot of people out of extreme poverty by moving them into the graveyard instead: it's now almost universally recognized that he piled up more corpses than either Hitler or Stalin. For the second half of the People's Republic, Deng Xiaoping managed to persuade America to outsource its entire manufacturing industry to China, and thereby enable the first economically viable form of Communism. That has certainly lifted many millions of Chinese out of poverty, and a select few (generals, Politburo members) into billionaire status. It may serve the needs of the US stock market - Niall Ferguson dubbed the arrangement "Chimerica" - but I am not persuaded that it is in the interest of the American people. Which is one reason why I am in favor of the current "trade war", even if it totally collapses the chimerical "Chimerica".
~Another subject that came up: The prorogation of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Shutting down Westminster until the Queen's Speech in mid-October is designed to ensure that, one way or another, Brexit will happen. So naturally it has sent the Remainers (politicians and media) into paroxysms of fury. The questions barked at Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lord President of the Council, as he departed Balmoral after Her Majesty's assent to prorogation, were particularly idiotic in their incoherent hysteria....
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Neither Bernie nor any other socialist objects to mass murder.
It is interesting to notice that while Bernie is correct about Chinese poverty no one seems to want to point out that it was the American consumer who did that. To our detriment. Cudos to the Chinese for almost eliminating poverty but since I am an American I am not quite as thrilled knowing it was done on our backs.
It is interesting to notice that while Bernie is correct about Chinese poverty no one seems to want to point out that it was the American consumer who did that.
Yep. The Chicoms built their military and pulled their people out of abject poverty with OUR money. I was looking at US city data on Wikipedia recently. The largest employers in our cities and counties are almost always hospitals and schools now. The Chicoms & globalists stole our jobs to enrich themselves. No doubt in my mind.
...and guess who made all the money while our “buggy whip maker” jobs were sent to China?
this is my experience with “American Companies”. Before I went to Med School I was a machinist at a plant owned by one of the largest steel companies in the world fo four years while my wife was in college. The machine I ran at the time was a beat up, worn out, left over from WW II. It began to affect quality. So they replaced it. While I was thrilled to have a brand spanking new machine to run I was more than a bit mystified. It was MADE IN JAPAN. I was young and naive but not so naive to wonder why a US Steel company would buy an expensive Japanese machine. Even their advertising asked Americans to buy “made in America”. At the time I had just purchased a Japanese motorcycle that was the hottest new thing on two wheels and the guys gave me a hard time for “buying Japanese crap”. Once I pointed out our employers had done the same thing they backed off a bit. But the “bottom line” is, when it comes to the bottom line they really don’t care.
"On our backs" seems to indicate that it was somehow against our wishes. But we chose less costly over made here, willingly in most cases.
Just like the US Steel Company that bought Japanese machine tool products.
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