Posted on 04/03/2020 6:46:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Lots of “we” in that article.
Bkmk
Lots of Leftist Globalist dreams are succumbing to the virus.
High density planned communities
Mass transit
Ban on disposable plastic bags
Global supply chains
...etc.
Stay in the cities. Stay out of my area.
I agree with you. Keep the cities dense. They always will be anyway. It is a fact of geography that people and resources are unevenly distributed throughout the world. There is no way to buck that trend.
How do “we” build Chinese style mega-factories employing 250,000 workers with less dense population centers?
That's why they always vote for Democrats.
Don’t underestimate the core vile nature of the Democrats. The dream of the Left has always been to deconstruct and demolish American culture and the individual freedoms that are the basis of capitalism. Make no mistake. They will use this crisis to maximal advantage. Their hope is to endlessly blame Trump, win the election, seize and solidify power and then recreate America in a way consistent with their bizarre nightmarish vision.
What we really need is more patriots with a spine.
The author, like the typical socialist, knows all about what he thinks Americans need, but he cares little about what they actually want. He says we need more factories. But what if American consumers already have all the refrigerators, huge houses, etc., that they want, and are looking for services, i.e., health care, vacations, movies, etc.? Are we going to build the factories anyway?
We don’t rely on slave labor like the ChiComs, nor do we need to.
Instead we use ingenuity and innovation to match anything the ChiComs can slap together.
However, like the ChiComs, we have massive class of useless mandarins from the government who impose a centrally planned economic model on our entrepreneurs, with the covert goal of heavily tilting the playing field for multinationals ...
What we need is honest people.
Honest politicians to write effective, rational laws.
Honest business owners who aren’t lying f*cking savages.
Honest workers who aren’t scheming for free shiite.
Honest consumers who aren’t looking for a golden payout fraud.
Honest lawyers that can fairly represent issues before honest judges without political axes to grind.
What happened to a handshake contract?
Giving “My Word” to do something?
We become what we live,
America was a land built for a moral and religious people, wholly inappropriate for any other kind.
“pursue independence, personal and national freedom with strong borders, local manufacturing, national defenses, and personal property for a great culture of prosperity”
Agreed.
But how we get there is, and has always been, the issue.
If this is your proposed approach ... "All these Federal 'alphabet' agencies failed, so let's create another one." ... then you've gone full retard.
I think it’s human nature to sort of wish “If they made me dictator today, I could solve all the problems …”
I understand why the author writes this article. But even if the ideas are good ideas, how would it come to pass? You’d probably have to pass a million laws, engage in lots of social engineering, and basically force people to leave the cities and build factories out in the heartland. As a Conservative, I wouldn’t want to force that issue.
However, I understand the desire.
Culturally, it would be nice if we encouraged a back-to-the-land movement. Lots of people can work from home these days. Maybe people should desire a plot of land — a 1 acre garden that they can tend while they work from home. I don’t need lots of factories in my town. I don’t need so much “stuff”. Maybe people should desire more elbow room.
And if a lot of small towns (25-50,000) that have seen better days could be revived with fresh new factories, maybe that wouldn’t be so bad.
And if urban centers were perceived as crime-and-welfare centers rather than “pricey real estate for rich people” it wouldn’t be so bad.
But I have no magic wand. I don’t want to pass a million laws. I don’t know how society transitions away from what we have right now.
Excellent.
Why would "we" want to?
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