We Are the Third World

American Thinker ^ | October 1, 2016 | Timothy Birdnow

[entropy12]

Communist China has better and more modern airports, city highways, shipping terminals, etc than United States. this is no big surprise since we have $500,000,000,000 trade defici with China every fricking year! Transfer of wealth, thanks to career politicians in pockets of Wall Street.

[entropy12]

Google pictures of modern day Hiroshima versus Detroit slums. It will blow your mind. Hiroshima is the shining city on the hill. Detroit has miles after miles of dilapidated buildings and house. Wonder who won WW II..

[Kenny]

I really think the ad would be good for Trump but don’t know who puts those things out. Maybe a super pac.

[zeestephen]

Re: “If America is a Third World dump, it’s because non-Hispanic white people made it that way.”

Completely agree, Alberta.

I will estimate that close to 90% of the Republican national leadership supports massive legal immigration and Amnesty.

I will estimate that close to one third of Republican voters support the same goals.

[Alberta's Child]

I know a number of people who are hard-core supporters of Donald Trump specifically for his immigration stance. Most of them would have no qualms about selling their homes to illegal aliens if an extended family of 30 Latin Americans was the only willing buyer for their $800,000 home.

There's your problem in a nutshell.

[Alberta's Child]

Communist China has better cities, airports, ship terminals, etc. for two reasons, and neither one of them has anything to do with their trade surplus with the U.S.:

1. These places are all newer than ours.

2. Their totalitarian government can simply displace millions of people to build those things without having to worry about any kind of legal process or financial compensation.

[ClearCase_guy]

Reagan Amnesty of 1986

Not Reagan's best moment.

But the real takeaway is that you cannot trust Democrats. Ever. All deals made with Democrats must have the Democrat losing. Not breaking even. Because when a Democrat agrees to "break even", he's taking you to the cleaners.

[SkyPilot]

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

The Hart–Celler Act of 1965 marked a radical break from the immigration policies of the past. Previous laws restricted immigration from Asia and Africa while it gave preference to northern and western Europeans over southern and eastern Europeans. The United States faced both foreign and domestic pressures to change its nation-based formula, which was regarded as a system that discriminated based on an individual’s place of birth.

First Mary Jo Kopechne, Then America - The truth about mass immigration and the Democrats' electoral machinations

These immigrants are NOT wanted by Obama and the US government:

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These immigrants ARE wanted:

[central_va]

Communist China has better cities, airports, ship terminals, etc. for two reasons, and neither one of them has anything to do with their trade surplus with the U.S.:

Do you really believe that? LOL.

[Chgogal]

Obmam/Hillary has spent $10 TRILLION in the last 7.75 years. What the hell do they have to show for it?

[stillfree?]

Watching college football, and wondering. There’s 100,000 people at the Michigan - Wisconsin game. They look mostly white. They have more money than me. I can’t afford to go to a local college football game, let alone travel to one as many of these people do. Multiply this times the number of games across the country and there are a lot of affluent people attending these games. Even the TV advertising is geared towards people with money. Cars, investments, etc.
So, here is what I’m wondering: Are these the people ( many of them) that vote democratic besides the ususal suspects of minorities, one percenters, etc? Who the hell has the money for more taxes, and wants the GOPe to stay in power? Just wondering? There’s a lot of dolts beating conservatives at the ballot box. Who the hell are they?

[entropy12]

Trump agrees with me, that China is stealing America’s wealth with the horrible trade deals made by Democrat & republican career politicians in pockets of their Wall Street donors.

Another reason you are so wrong is, there are dozens and dozens of other countries in the world run by totalitarian regimes. That includes a country just 90 miles from Miami. Almost all have terrible infrastructures, even Russia.

You are under delusion if you do not believe trade surplus with US has nothing to do with it.

[entropy12]

They have plenty to show for the $10T added to national debt. Obamacare (86% on Obamacare are subsidized by taxpayers), growth in food stamps, cost for services provided to illegals and refugees, Obama-phones, and the biggest cost being wars in middle-east.

When money is spent, and there is not enough money in treasury to pay for it, it is borrowed and tacked on to the national debt.

[Alberta's Child]

Trump has no idea what he's talking about. I'm 100% behind him, but there's a reason why the guy has been on TV for the last 15 years and it isn't because he produces a show aimed at people with IQs over 100.

The U.S. has a trade deficit with almost every country in the world. Why don't they ALL have the same modern cities, airports, etc.? The U.S. trade deficit with Mexico, for example, is one of the largest of any trading partner.

One reason for this is that many cultures are simply dysfunctional, and couldn't figure out how to build a modern airport even if you gave them $100 billion and 25 years to do the job. China is a homogenized society where they don't have to deal with a lot of the cultural dysfunction that is pervasive in most Third World dumps.

[Alberta's Child]

The Reagan Amnesty of 1986 may also be one of his less consequential moments.

I heard a report on a radio program some time ago where the host of the show cited a statistic that floored me: Less than 30% of the immigrants who were eligible for U.S. citizenship under the Amnesty Act of 1986 actually became citizens. That's remarkable, if true.

[itsahoot]

All you have to do is look at our “elections” to see that Trump is right.

We don't make no purple ink, only backward nations do that, we use computers.

[itsahoot]

If America is a Third World dump, it's because non-Hispanic white people made it that way.

B$ They align with the leftist commies and outnumber the sane people.

[Pelham]

That’s true. Like Japan, China decided that a form of export-oriented managed trade would make their country wealthy, or at least vastly wealthier, than a policy based on David Ricardo’s free trade ideas circa 1800.

I’d say that after 30 years or so the evidence is in.

Ricardo was writing when populations and factories weren’t globally mobile like they are today. Paul Craig Roberts has been saying that what we are seeing today isn’t free trade as envisioned by Ricardo’s theory, it is instead global labor arbitrage- absolute advantage as opposed to Ricardo’s comparative advantage.

In the years immediately following WWII the vast majority of goods consumed by Americans were made somewhere in America. We had imports, but we didn’t have plants picking up wholesale and leaving the country to replace their American employees with a foreign workforce.

I seem to remember Say’s Law which went something like “supply (production) creates its own demand”. It’s fancy economist jargon for saying that producing something gives you buying power. When you export your factories you lose the buying power that they used to provide for all of the people who were part of it.

But apparently that’s The Best of All Possible Worlds to many who continue to believe that the best policy is to do nothing. Of course we do provide welfare to the ruins of the Rustbelt, and it seems that many of the remaining have found a new way to spend their time with meth and other recreations so there’s that.

[entropy12]

Very elementary Dr Watson.. China owns 64% our trade deficit. Mexico is another country which owns 6.5% of our trade deficit. Without it Mexico would look like Cuban infra-structure.

[Tours]

The 1965 immigration Bill started in the House. Known as the Hart-Celler. The mover and shaker in the Senate was New York Senator Jacob Javits. Kennedy was bit player.