Posted on 12/02/2012 7:54:08 AM PST by mgist
“It is a simplistic fact that every employee has some variable economic value to their employer.”
Of course if the employee doesn’t provide some value then they will not be employees for long. (unless they work for government).
However you did not answer the main points of my previous posts.
How do you feel about our trade Policies creating a dangerous superpower rival, while driving down the wages of the Average American.
The Chinese could land troops on Guam. Obama won’t do a damn thing.
Ping.
So trading and off-shoring jobs to a country that uses slave labor does what for freedom?
The Chief of Naval Operations has just released a new order regarding dealing with the Chinese in open waters. The order mandates that when US naval officers stop their ships to allow the Chinese to board that American naval officers are not to bow to the Chinese lower than belt-level, and that apologies to the Chinese are not to be made by any officer above the rank of LT (O-3). Breaking...
Cutting off free trade is a path to World War.
You're joking, right??? Um, just what Navy are you a vet of? PLA? Tell me more about this implicit message of peace and good will. China has had a proxy war against us for decades and sponsor, and aid most of our enemies. They vote against us at every opportunity at the UN. The level of espionage couldn't be any higher. They steal our secrets, bribe our officials and hack our government computers. China's bellicose assertions of control over most of Asia's sea lanes and boarding of ships of sovereign nations is unprecedented. The military buildup in China is in overdrive, funded by "FREE TRADE" The best recipe for world war is to keep feeding this monster that "FREE TRADE" has created. I could feel a little differently about the job loss, etc., were it not for the fact that we are building our future enemy's military at a rate that will soon surpass our own. Is that what you want for your Grandkids? WWIII with an adversary that won't hesitate to slaughter them? Have you ever considered the idea of fair trading with a country that is not grooming itself for war with us? I'm so glad that they feel this good will that you speak of towards us.
Speaking of hell, a friend of mine was in the Army Air Corps ... His POW horror story can be found at http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bowen-328324-airmen-one.html
I don't pretend to have the vast knowledge of what causes war like you do but I would like to learn. Please share your knowledge. Show us what you know but let's use facts, okay? How about we talk about the facts that I listed or cite your own.
Please feel free to address the following:
Was the Revolutionary war started with a trade war?
How about the war of 1812?
Was the Mexican American war precipitated by a trade war?
Was the Civil war brought about by a trade war?
Did we have a trade war with Germany prior to WWI?
Did we have a trade war with Japan prior to WWII?
Did we have a trade war with Germany prior to WWII?
Did we have a trade war with Italy prior to WWII?
Did we have a trade war with Hungary prior to WWII?
Did we have a trade war with Bulgaria prior to WWII?
Did we have a trade war with North Korea?
Did we have a trade war with Viet Nam?
Did we have a trade war with Iraq?
Kosovo?
Did we have a trade war with Afghanistan?
Refresh my memory, what wars have we had that started with trade wars?
Ref. http://itsamoneything.com/money/quotes-on-war/
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing for the ones who didn't."
Oh, look. Another war brewing because of a lack of free trade. /s
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2965734/posts
The seeds of war very much include nations becoming strong enough to forcibly take over nearby territorial areas - destroying free trade. The seeds of war had Germany and Japan doing exactly that in the 1930s.
Thank you. This is my point. China is becoming stronger because of the type of one sided free trade that we are all to happy too give them. China is sowing the seeds of war in every way from provocative and bellicose acts like are mentioned in this article to nuclear ICBMs that the PLA seem all too excited to use on us. China had no problem with murdering 30,000,000 of it’s own people. They use the wealth made from us to arm our enemies. They use their new power to politically enable our enemies. They are disputing the boundaries of most all of their neighbors. We are becoming weaker because of this species of trade with them and this emboldens them even more. If we continue to fuel this process, we are providing powerful fertilizer for these seeds. We are ensuring war because of our trade and that trade will not be the only casualty. You can expect many lives to be lost, American, Chinese and from all the other countries that get sucked into the fracas. It will be a bloody war.
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