Posted on 12/25/2012 9:09:31 AM PST by Kaslin
I disagree.
Our system has been co-opted by 49% ownership in Chinese growth.
That was good for a while, but now it is financing our downfall.
We need to bring back US companies and jobs here.
100% ownership in American companies.
Now.
Hey Wapo, welcome to the party, pal.
There is no conflict between what we both said.
The same politicians who are enamored with the French legal system are also “internationalists”, who see no advantage to jobs and prosperity being kept here, when *they* could make more money elsewhere. Internationalists, almost by definition, have no national loyalty.
As self-imagined elites, they will always direct business to where labor is cheapest, since they equate Americans who are not elites as no different than Chinese peasants.
My apologies.
Let me re-read it then. Cheers.
OK but I don’t see any preference stated in your post as to where jobs should be located.
We are rapidly facing a decision:
Lose our way of life, to continue buying the cheapest things around. Ruining Americans’ living standard. Eventually bankrupting our nation. (perhaps much sooner than eventually)
Or start moving to counteract the global bias against American products.
It needs to start now. American products need to be made for America.
There has been a terrible bias worldwide against US production.
We need to stop sending all our jobs elsewhere.
Bring back US jobs.
I visited DC and NoVa in April. It looked like America used to look. You didn’t see “Available” and “For Lease” signs on 40% of the commercial buildings. Prosperity was evident everywhere you went.
My cousin lives in DC. She bought a house for 800 grand that would be about 40 here in Indiana.
I tell young people who are interested in relocating that’s the place to be if they can stomach the congestion. Snag one of those 15,000 new IRS jobs for enforcing Obamacare.
DC is a DeathStar. Its parasite population must be 5 million when you include suburbs and families with children. The first parasites in line are direct Federal “workers”. Then come the contractors. Both are doing great via the taxes (and other payments) they extract from far flung provinces such as Nevada, North Dakota, Alaska. What Alaskan ever want to see a Federal official? They are 4,000 miles from DC. Last dirty deed done to them was the EPA blocking Shell oil from a large project Shell had already spent four billion on. Alaskans would have gotten huge royalties from this in the state treasury. Maybe some of it sent to residents but could have decreased taxes all over
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/25/epa-blocks-oil-drilling-in-alaska/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/shell-arctic-permit-epa_n_1203185.html
A young woman with two kids. I don't know if they were her kids or not...but she bought two bags of gummy bears or something like them...with Food Stamps.
Then she whipped out the cash to buy a pack of Marlboro's. She was dressed and clean..and so were the kids. The got into a nice SUV...newer than mine.
I wondered why she was on Food Stamps....Probably a reason, I guess.
Absolutely right!
“I wondered why she was on Food Stamps.”
Probably on disability too,due to a severe work allergy.
What did you expect? The Hamiltonian access-capitalist crowd has always wanted this. Think of Hamilton and his ring of precious-metals arbitrageurs, buying and selling gold and silver by turns, and shipping the annual mint runs of the young, cash-starved American economy off to Europe to be melted down, and pocketing profits on the order of fractions of a penny on the dollar.
Congress finally stopped this ring by depreciating the dollar in the late 1830's. That is why a US silver dollar no longer weighed the same as a Spanish, Mexican, or Polish one (all tied to the old Hapsburg thaler of .77~ oz. of .925 [sterling] silver, on the old Roman purity standard), and why our silver and gold purity was cut to .900 fine simultaneously.
Some of the New World republics followed the U.S.: by 1905, a Peruvian sol and a Panamanian Balboa were exactly the same size and weight as a U.S. silver dollar, and a Venezuelan bolivar stacked precisely with an American quarter-dollar, and was worth exactly 10 Panamanian 2-1/2 centesimo "Panama buttons", so that people all around northern South America could use those currencies interchangeably and with confidence.
Recalcitrant, Yanqui-resisting Mexico, however, stayed on the old Hapsburg standard (never mind that they'd recently had to execute one of them for pretending to the vacant Mexican throne), and issued the old-style "cap-and-ray" dollares pesos well into the 20th century.
On the bright side, Alexander Hamilton was a protectionist and as Secretary of Treasury made sure we had a patrolling fleet of ships (cutters) that made sure that tariffs were collected on inbound goods
Yes, he sure did -- sock those competitors! Fill the Treasury from the pockets of those agrarian yayhoos, and force them to buy Millocracy goods!
But he also taxed on the other side -- American produce. He imposed the tax on whiskey (which is how the trans-Appalachian farmers, who had no roads to market, were moving their crops downriver in "concentrated bulk" and value-added form -- following the example of the sugar-cane planters) that led directly to the Whiskey Rebellion. He imposed it in all good faith </s>: The producers were farmers nobody cared about, who had no participation in American politics worth worrying about, and the consumers were river-town drunks, ditto-ditto and ditto again; and the money would flow into the Treasury to fund "improvements" intended to benefit businessmen in *important* economic centers like, oh, New York City. In other words -- Hamilton's pals, again.
It was, in a word .... "poifeckt!"
Tea Party not allowed.
The Feds had no income tax back then. As you know their main sources of revenue were tariffs, alcohol taxes and tobacco taxes. Two sin taxes inj there.
They had to tax something! And whiskey was a reasonable item
btt
Yeah, 'specially as so little of it was made in New York City ....
<singing>
"Don't tax you and Don't tax me;
We'll tax that fellow there
Under that tree!"
</ singing>
I'd maybe have given Hamilton a little credit if he'd, say, offered to tax stock transactions on Wall Street, or marline production or other nautical supplies and products. Or brass running-lights for ships and carriages and hacks. You know, urban lanterns.
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