Posted on 01/24/2014 6:36:50 AM PST by 1rudeboy
Correct.
Chief among them are onerous EPA regulations, onerous Labor relations, high taxation and high cost of serviceable infrastructure. Mostly political reasons as higher government spending and associated costs just force higher and higher taxation.
Guess who funded the lawsuits to "force" those regulations? It was tax-exempt "charitable" foundations belonging to the investors seeking to profit from moving production overseas, cloaking themselves in "reducing global poverty" while making an artificially inflated profit.
Other reasons are now coming into play as our education system continues to dumb down the work force
Guess who has funded the destruction of the next generation? It was Rockefeller who funded Kinsey and Carnegie and Ford who funded "educational reform."
Please explain . . . if you can.
I not saying that ending Free Trade would be a panacea but with jobs and money coming in we would have the means to solve those other problems. With jobs and money we could afford those higher prices. Without jobs and wealth creation we are dead in the water.
Exactly, perfectly correct.
>> There is a new economy coming, not based so much on mass production, but rather mass information.
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> Please explain . . . if you can.
With the advent of cheap 3D printing there’s a huge increase of ‘producers’.
Because of Supply & Demand, this means that much production will become cheap — the thing that will go up in demand are people who understand and can use information, already a valuable commodity, which will create a demand for readily accessible information.
Iow, *IT’S OUR FAULT*.
Laughable if not so darn sad on so many levels (as comments show).
I read somewhere that Sweden now has stronger protection of private property than the U.S.
I've been hearing that same garbage for over twenty years. It Hope-y and Change-y nonsense.
So are you one of those economic idiots that think if we made underwear in the USA they would cost $10.00 a pair? What poppy cock; how much labor do think goes into a pair of skivies?
You missed my point.
I wasn’t defending some need to continue free trade.
Rather, I was proposing a reason the disaster of free trade was foisted on us and continues to be foisted on us.
Just read what Karl Marx said about free trade.
I also think its time to start cutting taxes at the bottom. Things like payroll and income taxes. The insane way we tax manufacturing has got to go as well.
I think it would be a winner with the people across the board. After all, how can idiots protesting for a higher minimum wage oppose taking less out of their paychecks?
Marx said that free trade would destroy the middle class. Good to see Marxists on this thread.
So what do you do with the bottom 50% who can’t adapt?
You either provide jobs or welfare to them. It’s much better to find work for them to do.
I'd like to check you knowledge in this area:
What is the percentage of manufacturing workers in the USA are in a union?
Maybe this is a better way to say it:
They push free trade on us so they can print money with abandon and not cause inflation.
” The tombstones of countless dead towns across America should read: Killed by Free Trade.”
Killed by unions and automation.
That is ABSOLUTLRY NOT TRUE. Labor is just one component in manufacturing, one of the smallest too.
I studied Soviet Naval tactics extensively when I was in the US Navy so does that make me a Communist? Know your enemy is my motto.
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MORE government intervention in the markets!
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