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Allowing the "Free Trade" really has been a devastating to the American economy as losing a major war. A steel mill scrapped because Korean steel is cheaper is just a destroyed as if it were bombed by terrorists. We need to wake up to the fact that our trading "partners" are our competitors and NOT our friends. They would be just as happy if we went away commercially so long as we paid for their defense against their enemies. Time to say Fair prices or you pay for your own defense.
We need FAIR Trade, not unfair trade that is robbing us of any semblance of previous prosperity. I would rather the Union workers, along with most of the rest of us, be the winners. The executives, stockholders and bankers have already stolen enough.
Agreed.
I said it before, at the very least, we should slap a huge tariff on any imports with stolen intellectual property. Too many countries allow businesses to steal the patents and copyrights from US citizens, and then ship their goods with pirated technology and stolen ideas, back into the US at cut rate prices.
Americans are already competing with North Korean Wage Slaves for Hyundai Plants. THIRD WORLD WE ARE HERE.
Christ don't be such a drama queen. I bet you are somewhere pretty comfortable that is climate controlled, plenty of space, nice vehicle in the driveway, typing on your computer about being in a third world country.
What's the solution? Accept that we're going to have a higher unemployment rates, or that our standard of living is going to fall while the rich get richer - for some reason, neither sounds like a great idea.
I think our standard of living will dip slightly or remain pretty close to constant as more of the developing world catches up. People fret about our demise but real wages for most really haven't dropped that much over time.
Have you ever seen a graph of China's manufacturing wages over the last 10 years and projected over the next ten? We're a lot closer to the tipping point of overseas manufacturing not making as much sense, and there have already been some manufacturers that have decided because of rising costs it no longer makes sense. It isn't going to go on forever, as the standard of living rises in developing countries their advantages as a source of labor lessen.
Huh?
Honduras isn't wealthy by any means by they are hardly living without things like roads, electricity, or running water.
Dude that's the urban areas. Go out into the rural areas. You ought to enlist in the army. You can do like I did and go tromp through the Honduran jungle with a bunch of suits and watch them terrorize villagers to make sure they vote for the US puppet-in-power.
Dude that's the urban areas. Go out into the rural areas. You ought to enlist in the army. You can do like I did and go tromp through the Honduran jungle with a bunch of suits and watch them terrorize villagers to make sure they vote for the US puppet-in-power.
B-b-b-but the US government would NEVER allow or condone those actions. (SARCASM)
Honduras isn't wealthy by any means by they are hardly living without things like roads, electricity, or running water.
Those are obviously Photoshopped pix from California.
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