Posted on 04/27/2016 10:27:56 PM PDT by Neil E. Wright
ya it is really interesting and enthusiastic and very realistic too
Jim Morrison
Never said you were cheering.
Just pointing out that in my observations, FR and many FReepers appear to have taken quite a different tack this time around with some readily apparent contradictions...
Well, you have a great opportunity to do so. The next President will be appointing a vast majority of Federal Judge positions that are coming up. There are plenty of things that you can do to help getting conservative judges appointed.
But where did the chip manufacturers go? The computer assembly plants? The tablet and smartphone manufacturing? The electronic component manufacturers?
Decades ago I recall seeing chips on circuit boards which were made in El Salvador, in the far East (but not Japan). Why go to a 3rd world country and set up microprocessor manufacturing facilities?
Well, 1-1-1 Trichloroethane (a solvent formerly used as dry cleaning fluid, but used to clean the silicon wafers as a step in manufacturing) is regulated off the domestic industrial landscape for the most part now. Other environmental and Health and safety regulations have pushed out manufacturing, mining (for rare earth elements), mineral processing and refining, and associated jobs, and pushed them to places where the rules are not as strident and huge savings can be had in making the hardware the software runs on. Those places aren't here.
While some regulation, or at least reasonable standards for exposures to potentially toxic materials are a good thing, when those standards are changed and made tougher just to, well, make the standards tougher, that imposes additional costs on business for compliance (equipment, PPE, process changes, facility upgrades, emissions controlls), and can turn profitable industries into fiscal losers.
I won't even mention 'Human Resources', which is something that crawled in in the last 20 years and all the snowflake reasons a company can be sued, nor product liability suits that mandate instruction booklets that tell the user not to use the hairdryer in the shower...to avoid suit.
The 'snowflake' reasons for a guy to lose his job are unreal, too.
So, they packed entire facilities up and went to a more friendly regulatory climate in areas where the rules would be more predictable, sometimes selling to a froeign supplier for pennies on the dollar to take the tax loss and avoid paying huge taxes on the sale.
Rapidly, a previously all-American company becomes multi-national or global, and the loyalties of the BOD tend to head in the same direction, to benefit the bottom line and the stockholders first (that is their job as they see it), all others after, and the Devil take the hindmost--all while facing demand for lower prices and the 'next big thing' from consumers.
We have met that monster, and it is us. Americans want what they buy to be of good quality, they want it fast, and they want it cheap, but ironically, they also want to be paid more money for what they do even as they want to pay less.
At the root of it all, are government agencies regulating everything going into and out of the building, and how it goes in and out, then taxing the crap out of the company for the privilege of being over regulated.
As Ronald Reagan said, "Government is not the solution, Government is the problem."
Thank you for clarifying that you are not a conservative. It is refreshing to have someone here who is not masquerading as one and supporting liberal causes.
If you look beyond the Cruz-Trump interaction, you will find that every tweet about someone Trump does not like or is at odds with begins with a pejorative, from Saudi princes who were business partners to other political candidates.
Add to that 40% of Americans getting their 'news' from twitter and Facebook (the backyard fence of journalism, the one thing lower than tabloids for gossip), and the ease with which something gets retweeted or reposted, the pejorative spread through repetitive use more than substantiation. But if people hear the sky is green and the grass is blue long enough, they will believe it.
Tweets about foreign policy would definitely be interesting under a Trump administration, even if this isn't the best time in our economic history to be engaged in global warfare.
You're completely wrong, Wright.
The only way Trump loses in November is through the damage caused by the GOP establishment, and its sockpuppet, Establishment Ted.
If the Republicans had gotten on board the Trump train a month or so ago, we would have already had the presidency sewn up.
Instead, the Democrats threw Wisconsin to Cruz, to keep the luzer in the race in order to allow themselves time to sort out the Bern situation.
It worked - but I'd bet money that Cruz knew what went on in Wisconsin. That means he's in bed with both the GOP establishment, AND the Democrats (but I repeat myself).
So, the crLuzers WILL OWN IT, if it happens that Trump is unable to prevail.
Oh, BTW - screw that loser Jonah Goldberg.
He writes for that yellow journal rag, the National e- Spew - the fountain of the GOPee Establishment's scummery.
What a nasty sliming piece of filth Jonah is!
And quit putting words in the mouths of other posters.
What words did I put in the mouths of any other poster? Link it please.
Oh drat! There is a period in there. My bad. My apologies.
I am completely consistent. Still don’t like Romney and who he supports. STill wont’ vote for cultists and those who abuse the name of Christ for political gain. Hence, not Cruz.
bkmk
Romney was ultimately the nominee, did you vote for him, or were you a Never Romney? Even JR took to the Romney side at that time, many of us did.
Some people really love cheap labor.
I didn’t vote for him. I also live in a solid red state that has few electoral votes so my vote doesn’t really count.
Instead of opusing out or getting butthurt and taking a lot of abuse for being neverromney, I took a self imposed FR hiatus of 6 months and came back after the election.
I left the GOP over Romney. Trump is the only reason I switched back.
And so then you can definitely understand the Never Trump folks?
I understand them,I never said I didn’t. Although I think they are cutting off their nose to spite their face by leaving FR and pushing it into a zot. I knew it would blow over and it did.
I also that some are hypocrites since they supported Romney in the end. I also think some neverromney folks are hypocrites since they are now supporting Cruz who is in bed with Romney.
You had your reasons against Romney's religion, Mormonism, and look what that gave us.
Never Trumpers are now against the religion of Trump.
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