Posted on 10/10/2023 5:27:28 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
The United States was really the first country that succeeded with mass immigration from different cultures.
There is no question this was a big factor in our growth into a super power. Because at one time we did it right, we had the “Melting Pot”, where people blended into one unique American culture.
That all changed with the Cultural Marxists, and declaring the Melting Pot as a racist construct. Now instead of the Melting Pot, we have Balkanization.
Scotland is not the USA. A economically self sufficient USA basically conquored the world in 1945.
Because the rest of the world was bombed, their infrastructure ruined, and manpower shortages because of the loss of life. We were basically the only industrial country left standing in 1945.
In 1940 we produced everything thing here AND WON THE WORLD WAR. Nice try, fail
An economically self-sufficient German Reich didn't. The US had the resources of the Western Hemisphere to draw on: rubber, tin, copper, etc.
There is much to be said for "reshoring" industries and bringing back American manufacturing, but you are acting like a troll.
Germany’s problem was oil. Simply couldn’t get enough. They were trying to make synthetic oil but it never got off the ground.
I am on Bastiat’s side on this one.
PS The third Reich used factories from all over central and western Europe.
In that case, you can enlighten us on what specific elements are needed and whether they are no deposits in the US and Canada or whether the deposits are not competitive with e.g. South African mines in the current geopolitical environment.
Furthermore, more inter-state conflict does not mean that trade stops nor that the US has to be involved with one or the other of the parties in conflict.
The US is the main advocate of cutting off trade with nations that we have an actual or possible conflict with. Other nations seem happy to continue trade, e.g. I believe that gas is still flowing to Europe from Russia via Ukrainian pipelines.
And other countries avoid identifying parties to conflicts as their own friends or foes. e.g. China is avoiding that in Ukraine and Israel.
Silicon is the second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and yes, that includes sand.
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/12034/chapter/1
That’s from a 15-second browse. Which anyone could have done if they WANTED to. But ignorance is bliss, they say.....
“China practices mercantilist policies, to the detriment of her own people and our manufacturers.”
Why is it to the detriment of her own people?
China standard of living has increased many folds since it started exporting manufactured goods. It used to be a basket case, now it’s the second most powerful country and growing.
And its mercantilism is very different than what was practiced in the 19th century. Back then countries like Britain and France would drain their colonies of their natural resources (including gold) and send them manufactured goods.
Today China sends us manufactured goods in exchange for iou’s in the form of treasuries. Quite a deal for us if you ask me.
They basically fund our yearly deficits which pay for our welfare programs.
So Chinese people work so ours don’t have to.
Couldn’t read the article, that blogger had too much of it blocked off with popups.
“ The United States was really the first country that succeeded with mass immigration from different cultures.”
That’s because we insisted they become Americans and there was a long pause after we took a large number in. It wasn’t until 1965 when Ted Kennedy changed all that. I hope Satan is butt raping his soul without ceasing.
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By 1944 about 50% of Germany's aviation fuel was synthetic, so yes, it did get off the ground, literally as well as figuratively.
A more critical resource problem after 1942 was cobalt. The recapture of North Africa by the Allies cut off their cobalt supply, and thereafter they couldn't make exhaust valves for their aircraft engines that would last more than a few hours. The hot-section blades in their otherwise advanced jet engines also were notoriously short-lived.
Because they are paid less than the value of their labor, and to much of the added value goes to those who are connected, including the CCP bureaucrats and connected capitalists. With free trade, rather than a government monopoly they would receive higher wages.
Ironically, yes. Moscow needs the foreign exchange, and Ukraine would not benefit from cutting supply to supporters in Europe.
Another more obvious critical item we import, and I forgot, is bauxite, the ore from which aluminum is extracted. Our domestic supplies are small and expensive to mine.
I should NOT have to tell anyone who graduated high school this, but silicon is only the base on which semiconductors are constructed. Look up "dopants", the small galaxy of other elements added to produce the desired properties. They include almost all of the metals in the periodic table. Without them there are no transistors, and hence no computers more sophisticated than the old UNIVAC, with its' thousands of vacuum tubes.
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