Posted on 05/11/2020 10:56:02 AM PDT by Candor7
In March of 63 I got out of Air Force, bought a small cycle in California and rode in home to Indiana.
I passed thru a ghost town in Nevada - Silver Peak. I don't know what had been mined there, but it was no longer economical. The town swimming pool was full of tumbleweeds and the paved road ended there. And I foolishly pressed on, aiming to hit the next paved road; about 22 miles south; as the crow flies.
Well; since then; someone discovered that the lithium underground in the area could be gotten out by dissolving it in water and pumping it up to dry in the desert sun. "Silver" Peak has come back to life!
Summarized here.
Its a conquest of America.
“American Factory: A Vision of Globalist HELL”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEA5PIOe7mw
“Its a conquest of America.”
It’s going to be very, very tough competing with them at the manufacturing level...
Their work ethics, attitude, loyalty and dedication to their companies, willingness to sacrifice is at a totally different level than ours. The company and its workers are a single unit, more like a military regiment off to do battle. In our case management and workers are like cats and dogs with not much of a common purpose, who can hardly stand each other.
So our choices are...
1. Become like them
2. Find other ways to be as or more productive, while still retaining our values
3. Lock them out and keep our own companies from going there through higher tariffs or laws, ie keep them from our market and from competing with us. (This will result in a lower standard of living and probably shoddier products.)
4.???
Our advantage is our free spirit and free thinking. We’re not as restricted by a rigid top-down straight jacket organization. But can we turn that into enough of an actual asset to give us a chance? We went through a similar experience with Japan, Inc. in the 80s and we overcame that. Can we pull the same trick again?
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