Posted on 06/16/2010 9:30:06 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
I mentioned nothing about reducing our standards, just reducing taxes and regulations on domestic companies. The difference between the US and China is most here will not put up with those conditions and, for the company to compete for workers, they will have to offer conditions workers will favor. Competition for employees is almost as great of a factor here as competition for customers.
OK is the word “supremacy” forever lost to us, because liberals use it against racial extremists?
Should we likewise abandon using the word “choose”?
How about the word “diversity”. Whenever the left defines a word, are we to agree with that use?
Is there anything at all, about American supremacy, which we should shrink from?
That. Is the question and the challenge.
Have we become so cowed, we no longer are willing to be champions, and the best - as Americans - on Earth?
To win.
OK this is discouraging.
One use of the word “supremacy” as in - American supremacy.
And all discussion stops.
Sometimes I think our side no longer has enough fight left, to actually win back our nation.
We’ve been too well trained, by the left, to effectively push them back.
Argh.
So frustrating.
“All our so called partners, are protectionist.”
Yes, to varying degrees. America also has some protectionist policies. Fewer than most, it’s true.
“Many blatantly racist, in national policy.”
Of course. Race and culture are the only true binding factors of a group. There has never been a thing called “nation” without common race and/or culture.
“Yet we go along, sending our technology, jobs, factories and knowledge.”
Technology - there should be laws about this, and there are. Unfortunately democrats bypass those laws for campaign donations. It’s illegal, and it should be prosecuted. But free trade is not the issue there.
Jobs - the question becomes to what degree to you bypass the free market? The theory is, if a Chinese guy will do it for £2 a month, why not let him, then spend the remainder wisely? It’s tough in a time of high unemployment. But those times pass.
Factories - yeah I agree a LOT here. Japan taxes rice imports because it wants to have its own food source. Fair enough. America needs an industrial base. But also, such endeavors are hard to do right. It’s easy in the Japan situation - they know exactly what they want to tax & exactly what they want to protect. Do we want to protect ALL manufacturing, or are there some things we are perfectly happy to get cheaply from abroad? It’s not totally simple.
Knowledge - I would say (1) why should all US government information produced, which is useful information to competitors and enemies, be available to any korean hacker that wants it? Why should US federal intellectual property be classified as “public domain” for anyone in the world to use? That’s true. But again for me the main issue is democrats beaking the law, with knowledge, not a free trade issue.
“To people planning our demise.”
They are. That’s the world. It always has been.
“We need to drop the pretense, and adopt reciprocal trade.”
Is there any particular area you’re thinking of?
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