Idiots here on Free Republic enthusiastically embraced shipping jobs to asia, and were defending it against all debate years ago. These were, by and large, the same idiots who insisted that there was no real estate bubble and it wasn’t going to pop.
The cost of obtrusive government regulations, from waste disposal laws that became ludicrous to extravagant building and safety codes are big parts of this, and a lot of people explained what the consequences would ultimately be.
We aren’t laughing now, but certainly mockery and calling into question the capacity to make a salient assessment is appropriate for those who insisted that our level of government intrusion was not going to have the effects we are seeing now.
Not all of the damage started with Obonghit.
True, but Senator Obama was among the Democrats who blocked Republican efforts to reel in Fannie and Freddie during the last decade.
And attorney-at-law Obama fought to lower mortgage standards so that "disadvantaged" people could get mortgages, many whom couldn't afford them.
But the free trade idea was being pushed long before Obama became President.
To tell the truth I was once on the Chinese marketplace side.
We have sent far too much however, and China has been far too aggressive in deindustrializing America.
Enough.
Time to aggressively bring back jobs to America.
We need jobs. Right here.
And we need to stop sending money to China.
We need to grow.
We are in a huge competition now with China. Not cooperation. Competition.
America please wake up.