“What’s conservative is what’s based in liberty. “
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Actually that is libertarianism.
I happen to be a small-l libertarian, which makes it even more puzzling to me, why so many otherwise brilliant, flag-waving SOBs on our side see nothing whatsoever wrong-headed with making the largest communist nation in world history - strong and powerful by sending them our once world leading industrial base.
Seems a bit like the medieval practice of “bleeding”.
Killing the patient, with the erstwhile treatment itself.
“Free trade” is national suicide. Whatever you may or may not think about unions - destroying America herself in a boneheaded tactic to damage unions, is just plain stupid.
“national suicide”
Someone other than the property owner should have a say on who they sell factory equipment to?
Ah. The real reason for the vanity.
In simplest terms businesses move overseas because they cannot make close to the same profit here, if any at all, than they can over there. Killing unions, reducing taxes and stabilizing the business environment are things that could be done to entice businesses to stay in the US.
Our problem is not China - or OPEC - or anyone else. Our problems are self inflicted. If we got government and liberalism out of the way the entrepreneurial and energy engines of this great economy would swamp anything that China or OPEC is trying to do. Their societies are not based in freedom and only we can stop us, they can’t. And our trade policies are NEVER EVER EVER NEVER EVER EVER going to make their societies free.
China and OPEC and every other country is going to act in their best interests. Duh. The problem is, liberalism is not in our best interests and China is merely taking advantage of it.