Posted on 08/02/2020 12:26:07 PM PDT by castowell
President Trump said last month that talks for a phase 2 trade agreement with China were on the back burner
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China is Asshole!
So where have you been for over a year?
If you want many of us to read this you have to post something we can access.
To the extent of government interference, you were wronged.
To the extent you lost in the voluntary cooperation between buyers and sellers in the marketplace free from government interference, you lost in open competition.
Open competition in the free market means inferior companies lose but the consumer wins.
Sorry, if you get in bed with a snake it doesn’t “hijack” your bed. You knew what you were in for when you started.
If you dive deep and can hold your breath long enough down into the swamp, you’ll eventually surface...gasping for air in CHYna.
CHYna is azzhole.
Check out this “Evolutionary Psychologist”...er Eugenicist Apologist. How clever.
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838
Enemies within ALERT!
This paywall crap should not be allowed on FR!
> Open competition in the free market means inferior companies lose but the consumer wins. <
As a conservative I want to believe that. But consider this.
A few years ago I was watching a news story about an American company that made door locks for cars. And the owner was darn near crying. He said that the Chinese had entered the market, and were selling door locks for less than it took for his company to make them.
The Chinese locks weren’t as good as the American ones. But they we good enough. So the owner had only two options. Either go bankrupt or move production to China. And he was almost crying because he saw his employees as family.
Repeat this for industry after industry. Nope, I can’t call this a free market. It is something else.
Full text of article here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/i26zo8/how_chinese_officials_hijacked_my_company/
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Full text and comments here. No pay wall
https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/i26zo8/how_chinese_officials_hijacked_my_company/
Why? First of all understand the basic meaning of "Free Market" - which means FREE from government interference.
Was this locksmith plying his trade free from the feds interference? Hardly.
First of all, unconstitutionally government-protected unions - did he have that problem?
Next, unconstitutionally government-mandated, economy-killing, business-killing "minimum wage". Government interference here has made it very hard for American companies to compete in the open market.
Next, economy-and-enterprise-killing suffocating mountains of unconstitutional and illegal government regulations that kills our competitive edge.
China is NOT the problem.
The mostly unconstitutional federal government is the problem and 800-pound gorilla in the room that everyone igores.
> Was this locksmith plying his trade free from the feds interference? Hardly. <
That is a very important point! I’m sure part of the company owner’s problem is the government - federal, state, and local. Everybody wants to tax the guy. Everybody wants to regulate the guy.
But this guy could not compete even if taxes and regulations were minimal. How could he? He has to pay his workers a living wage. Not because the government tells him to. It’s because he won’t find any skilled help for, say, $5 an hour.
But the Chinese can find plenty of skilled workers for $1 an hour. How is that free trade? It’s not, because the playing field is not level.
So, apart from IP theft, should we be worried about IQ theft? If so, we've lost already!
You fall short of the impact of how much government hinders American enterprises’ competitive edge.
First, the wrongly-labeled “Corporate Tax” which skyrockets the cost to do business in America and thus hurts our competitive edge. (”Corporate tax” is effectively an individual tax because consumers pay the tax through higher prices driven by higher costs.)
Next, the sheer size of the $4 trillion feds, at least 80% of which is unconstitutional, causes a relentless inflation making the dollar gradually worth less as time goes by.
If you got rid of all the government excesses and unconstitutional acts, prices would go down and the average America could live on much less than they live on now and this locksmith WOULD have the competitive edge against China. But even more than that, the average America would realize greater wealth because their money is not being siphoned off to useless government nonsense and waste.
BTW, a country that forces workers to live on less than livable wages will not last on the open market. May do it for awhile, but will at some point implode.
America needs to get her house cleaned up by getting rid of the HUGE unconstitutional portion of the $4 trillion federal government and its excesses. If you did that, your locksmith and American enterprise in general would experience a new birth of freedom and wealth that China would have difficulty competing with.
Let me tell you something else. America is not meant to win in every market. Some counties have greater natural resources and abilities to make some of the best stuff in the world in certain markets. We don’t want to everybody out of business. That doesn’t help anyone. We just need to get government out of the way so we can do the best we can in the industries and businesses we thrive in.
Open competition in the FREE market doesn’t hurt America, it helps America because the American consumer ALWAYS wins in the open competition of the marketplace free from government interference and American standard of living increases as a result.
Slight correction: China is asshoe
I like the block apartments before the video plays.
They look like a communist planner designed them.
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