Posted on 04/04/2020 6:15:25 AM PDT by Brookhaven
Easier said than done. In some items it’s close to impossible. In others one has to do a lot of work to find the non Chinese product. And even then it might still be a Chinese company. How many here knew a good chunk of the Italian clothing industry was taken over by the Chinese until the virus hit Italy?
Doc Martin’s once
Were made in
Britain,
Now it’s
China!
.
The Horror,
The Horror.
I suspect she didn't make it to 18.
Exactly right.
Our problem is not well described and discussed here.
Rather than blaming the manufacturers who left for China, the blame belongs at the feet of the liberal voters and the politicians who made it so difficult for manufacturers that they fled to China to escape the tree huggers, anti-coal, anti....everything.
At the same time, every CEO of a company with stockholders owed/owes the stockholders the duty to make the maximum profit possible within the law.
That combination forced companies to move.
True certain companies were blessed with a genius who could buck the trend. One of the most obvious would be the “My Pillow” guy, whose ads irritate the hell out of me but he is to be admired nevertheless.
So bottom line: We did it to ourselves. CEO’s are not the only people to blame.
President Trump has done a fantastic job of removing some of the obstacles to manufacturing in the US, but he still has a lot of work ahead and everyone here should support him in that effort.
No, our corporate leaders did this to us.
Political leaders. Corporate leaders. China.
How about the American consumer who won't buy American if it's a little more expensive and forces the businesses offshore if they want to stay viable?
I guess it's human nature but I'm still surprised at how many people can identify all sorts of villains but refuse to look in the mirror.
Maybe Trump's cartel war can eventually "Make Mexico Great" and provide these voters a less geopolitically risky alternative - but it will take time.
No. Not never. But its important to consider the percentage of the population that indulges in debasement and the reason. Surely you understand that. Perhaps you don’t.
Allegory. I suspect the young girl was emblematic of a young America. This is a parable (not a story). The democrat ending is, she has an abortion or two then several kids by different John's and lives a life of welfare.
Right. I got all my serious thinkin' done earlier this a.m.
lol
What can a 16 year old Asperger's spectrum waif tell you about climate? It's a hook.
Some how, some way, sometime ago, we as a culture made the decision that hard dirty work by hard dirty men was immoral.
Unless you wrote code you were being exploited and also killing the planet.
In an educated, high class, woke society there simply was no place for dirt under the fingernails.
Best to export those nasty tasks to the untermensch of the 3rd world where we don't have to smell them.
Well, you know what they say about Chinese titty bars.
You visit one...an hour later, you want to visit another one.
Thanks. I was trying to figure that out.
And, after a fight with her boss, who ran the joint and wanted to act as her pimp, she agreed to go.
Then, in the process of this, she could have told him her story about how she ended up in a strip joint and hooked on crank. And who her family were and what their troubles were.
Stories, even parables and allegories, have more resonance when they have a human face.
And there are hundreds of thousand of young girls like this one who really are struggling to escape youthful addiction and poverty with some semblance of their lives and sanity...if just one decent young man happened to stop in for a drink at a "titty bar."
Thank you.
MAMA
Make America Manufacture Again!
Good meme, Nully.
‘Face
Nicely done
The heart break of globalism. This is the cost of letting coastal elites make all the decisions of what’s important for America
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