[combat_boots]

Golly Moses. “The Rise of the Machines” is a true story.

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[J Edgar]

It can only happen by evil and corruption being rampant in government.
And it has happened, see book: “The Franklin Coverup” if you doubt. JMHO

[GonzoGOP]

You have been found guilty of the crime of being obsolete.

[historyrepeatz]

Congress is so I guess we are.

[Frantzie]

Americans gave away their liberty for a TV clicker. They are too lazy to cancel cable and sat TV to cut off the elites power. Enjoy serfdom.

[microgood]

Interesting article that gets one thing wrong, they cannot stay rich if the US Middle Class disapears. The markets in China and India will collapse if that happens. Their prosperity is based on our consumption. And they are also very protective of their markets. Look at mobile phones.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

19th century view of the world in which everyone is either a “rich” Robber Baron capitalist or a “worker” in some grimy factory living hand-to-mouth.

The US economy could compete in the world and provide opportunity for its people if the liberals would stop strangling it to death.

Government, at all levels, sucks up 45% of GDP.

The liberals demand that we pay $400 billion every year to foreign countries for energy, instead of using nuclear power and domestic oil & gas and coal. This is draining us of our national wealth.

They have imported 30+ million low-skilled, low-educated foreign nationals costing us more than $100 billion a year, tens of billion in outbound remittances, and pulling down wages for Americans by uncountable billions of dollars.

Unions, backed by the power of the government, demand levels of benefits that bankrupt their companies, and then get the federal government to cover it over with taxpayer money.

Taxes crush American businesses, and then the federal government complains that they aren’t hiring more workers. Just the cost of complying with the tax code wastes billions and billions of dollars.

Regulations hamstring businesses and smother the native spirit of invention and entrepreneurship that once made America the most prosperous land in the world.

It is the liberals who are crushing America’s economy.

But if they can successfully demonize businessmen as “Robber Barons,” perhaps they can convince Americans to hand over that final measure of total power to the government - and end liberty and prosperity forever.

[Post Toasties]

This is the kind of thinking you’d expect from the Left: inane questions as to whether entire societies are ‘obsolete’. Makes the Socialist history of genocide more explicable.

[dfwgator]

There is no such thing as “American Corporations”, Corporations have no nation.

Arthur Jensen said it best in the movie, “Network”:

“You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.”

[Jack Hydrazine]

Are Americans not Leftist enough for our taste?

[douginthearmy]

In return for receiving a disproportionate amount of the gains from economic growth in a capitalist economy

WTF?

[MrEdd]

Girbilists are certainly obsolete.

And it is increasingly becoming evident to the most PollyAnna-ish among them that the days of being able to earn a living at it are very numbered for the vast majority of them.

The world, it seems, doesn’t want a gate keeper after all.

Misery loves company.

[Nosterrex]

How do you determine if someone obtains a disproportionate benefit from the economy? Who makes that decision? The Salon article is so rooted in socialistic-think that anyone that benefits from the economy is considered suspect and sinister, especially if they are conservatives. The real criminals are the politicians in Washington that end up being multimillionaires before they leave office. Charlie Rangel probably did not have two dimes to rub together prior to being elected to office, and now he is a multimillionaire.

[Yardstick]

Michael Lind is policy director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation.

The New America Foundation is some kind of quasi-socialist front group/think tank isn't it?

[Yardstick]

Increasingly, however, America's professional army is being supplemented by contractors -- that is, mercenaries.

Leftwingers and their mental tics. They love trains and they hate private contractors working for the military.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It the purpose of this screed is to intimate that the U.S. rich don’t care about the business of the local peons, I’m not sure that has been proven. Yet.

[napscoordinator]

Good then does that mean we can stop sending our money to other countries. I would love it if we just stopped every dime of our tax money going to other countries. This story is a blessing...now if only the government would take action. We could leave every country militarily, Africa would fall apart if we left, Korea would too, I don't know if Europe would be in trouble if we left but we can always find out. Plus get the U.S. out of Thailand, Philippines, etc. We could balance the budget if we did this.

[The Duke]

In every industrial democracy since the end of World War II, there has been a social contract between the few and the many.

Contract? The author better check his/her premise!

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Atlas shrugged and took his factories overseas.

[rman04554]

There is alot of truth here...look at the gathering of trans-national rich elite taking place in Rhinebeck NY this weekend. This goes to the heart of why the elites hate the tea parties...they are a huge threat to this vision. Time to end free trade, NAFTA. Time to start mandatory jail sentences for employers of illegals and time to end legal protections for corporations that move jobs and money overseas