Posted on 12/13/2013 2:57:59 AM PST by markomalley
What happened to RCA , Zenith , Motorola , Sylvania , Westinghouse , GE , Emerson , Magnavox ...etc...etc...? ;-)
If you hadn't known the answer, I would have argued that it shows a level of ignorance.
The last statistic that we saw on the matter showed over 150,000 of China’s businesses as being state-owned. All of the banks there are state-owned. What isn’t owned by the PLA is controlled by the PLA. China practices heavy censorship (see China firewall), aided by Google. And yes, our military forces have the ability to control China if necessary.
Government-linked, globetrotting corporate folks shouldn’t hate the U.S.A. and fellow Americans so much, and it’s not nice to collaborate with foreign communist enemies against one’s own country.
It figures that both of you are still unskilled laborers…..so much is explained…..
I have faith in the USA..in the entrepreneurial spirit of the USA…it will be the entrepreneurs, not the permanent labor class, apparently the class you proudly belong to, that will save the country.
You have a pro Marxist “workers of the world unite” union communist mentality….enjoy Comrade….
Bears repeating. But I only worked in steel processing/manufacturing. One company hired temps (primarily) from the bowels of Detroit. The other had Teamsters from the bowels of Chicago.
And I worked 50-60 hours a week in order to make less money than the Teamsters made in order to work 35, and stay home drunk and watch Bulls games (they were mostly Mexicans).
I was painting with a broad brush….it’s called “generalization” - and its a valid form of debate, as long as you admit you are gneralizing….I admit it, and I clearly was.
What kind of technical work can an international business manager do, say, as compared to an unemployed redneck, who can build to codes, install home energy systems, do auto repairs, systems admin., etc.? And in whose interest would be local zoning laws against manufacturing anything on large, rural, private properties (anti-domestic-competition laws)?
I contend that most great laborers…and there are many….eventually leave the labor pool and become management - or start their own companies of some type. When you look at it in the proper perspective, saying that Americans make bad low tier laborers is a compliment.
Americans are great at many things, but grunt labor is not one of them. People who own businesses that require that kind of labor have to understand this if they want to stay in business. I don’t see this as an anti American comment at all…..merely reality.
And that’s the thing—a crappy laborer is a crappy laborer. It’s not “unpatriotic” to say so.
No actually I’m highly skilled and a business owner. I’ve had employees in other countries and have found them to be no better then americans.
Not sure where you're going with this….but first of all, anyone who can do all of those things is likely not unemployed, unless they are so on purpose. Second, not sure what the zoning laws have to do with this debate…..but overly burdensome zoning laws are of course an example of nanny state liberalism….
Then you are clearly not who I was referring to, and yet, you insisted on personalizing it and pretending outrage like a typical liberal.
And yet, I was called a Maoist and a tool of Chinese handlers for saying so…..when all I was doing was recounting my experience of some 22 years of hiring low skilled and semi skilled labor. And our company had one of the highest retention rates in the industry - but we still had to go thru a lot of folks to find a single good one.
I am out of that part of the industry now….and hiring blue collar labor is something I’ll never do again, ever….
See I just have no respect for a person who can’t admit they were wrong.
Freedom lover. Freedom to trade with whomever I choose. Unlike anyone who saw the Confederacy and its vow to perpetual slavery as good government.
Good let’s agree that we don’t want a centrally managed economy.
I was aware of the Smithfield buyout, used to buy one of their hams occasionally, but haven’t bought one since. I love well-smoked ham and we have plenty of local sources-—Smithfieldchicom can suck my bacon.
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