Let me recite to you what one of the founders of this nation said about those "moral principles" and how they relate to this nation and its constitution:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798It isn't that we don't make money, or that we don't want to make money and get ahead economically. Far from it. It is simply that, like the exercise of any of our other rights and liberties, the thing that gives these things true meaning, the basic underlying cause for their true success are the moral principles and the blessings from heaven. Something the leaders in the PRC, or any other nation that basis its foundation on principles not including those mentioned by Adams above will never understand or concieve. It is precisely why the recent court issue regarding the "One nation under God" is such a large issue to so many Americans.
But, we have been over this ground already at length. I would once again refer you back to:
on that previous thread.
Here are Patrick Henry's words:
"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." Patrick Henry... and Sam Adams words:
"A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security." - Samuel AdamsBased on my own life's experience in working in this free society for almost thirty years now, based on the travels that career has afforded me overseas to the Far East, the sub-continent, Europe, and other places ... based on having raised five children in this free society (even with its many issues) ... I must say that these wise men were 100% correct ... and I thank God for it. So, pardon me if I continue to vigorously disagree with you on this fundamental issue to my dying breath.
As I have said, for the PRC and others to misunderstand this is a dangerous strategic miscalculation on their part.
These corporations are elitists who practice slash and burn economics. Why not 'cut one tree, plant one tree', I am no environmentalist, but it makes sense.
In smaller economies around the Asia Pac, labor is a BIG deal. Putting workers in Singapore or Japan, or Taiwan out of work in favor of $1 a hour labor is shooting ourselves in the foot. Hong Kong is example #1, but they are by far not the only example. The small economies of Asia are NOT America. What works here won't work there.
Even if we don't put them entirely out of work, but cut their wages by half, that is still shooting ourselves. China does NOT replace those consumers.
Big brother takes the money and does what it wants to with it. The CCP is focused soley on job creation. Which means social stability. And they are doing so at Asia's expense, and even the US's expense. Instead of one labor problem, there are now two or three. China's employment problems are endless. By choosing China they are creating several more problems and solving none of them.
If those other places are going to have service sector jobs, what exact does that mean? When the factory moves to China, the engineering job tends to migrate there also. Same is true for banking, real estate, and whatever. When the core goes, the perifferals go with it. Asia isn't America. They are going to cause a depression in Asia, if not civil unrest. If not both.
It would be far better to burn China to the ground and save 90% of our Asia market, than to save the 10% and burn the 90%.
Moving to China is a BAD idea. Moving there is only helping a few eliteists in the short term. No one has thought out their moves and how to keep from killing the chicken in favor of the egg.