Posted on 07/08/2012 6:46:59 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
Corporations have no borders or loyalty, they go where they make the most money, period. Shareholders are located all around the globe.
As long as free market runs its course, I am all for made in USA.
What I am not for is the mercantilist model the Germans employ to protect big business, raising barriers to entry and choking out both small business and imports so consumers have no choice and pay more.
New Balance shoes are made in the US, priced competitively, and last forever.
And that’s the difference between free trade and free market; the former allows unfree markets to participate and unilaterally attack free markets via mercantilist and other unfree practices.
Unions spent 4 billion $ on political campaigns in the last 5 years or so. Yeah unions have influence nor power according to you?
Unions are a losing bet.
Even when Dems held the Senate, House, and POTUS they were unable to pass their sacred “card check” legislation.
That was their ONE HOPE of staying alive.
RTW legislation was just passed this year in Indiana and is getting attention in a lot of other states.
Long term, unions are toast.
Let them spend all the billions they want, the graph doesn’t lie.
You have a serious comprehension problem. I have done NOTHING with Obama. People like you who buy into this protectionist BS are killing the economy with ignorance. It is not 1820 anymore, take your head out of the sand and join the 21st century. If we do not compete globally, we will no longer be an economic power. If you cannot see that economies are inter-dependent these days there is nothing anyone who has a functioning brain can tell you to bring you to the side of reason.
If you want to beat China, let companies compete with them without the unions pulling them down. Of course, that isn’t what you want I am sure... what union do you slavishly pay dues to?
As far as not trading with them (China), where do you think Perestroika originated from? You know, the concept that helped end the Soviets. They had no choice but to enact it because their people got a taste of American goods and freedom. That is why we should trade with China.
I threw the ad-hominem out there because you did not offer one substantive refutation of my post. Only ignorant invective and uninformed points that may have been true 100 years ago, but now are as obsolete as “Buy American”.
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