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This, too, is something most Americans are fine with. If a cheaper product of acceptable quality comes from somewhere else, that's where it should come from.
Really? So if all computers -
all electronics - can be made in China, all telephone operators can be employed more cheaply in China, and all business managers
can run businesses cheaper from Bombay "that's where it should come from"?
Why don't we just outsource
all manufacturing and services to third world countries - and we can just all be soldiers, Federal and State officials and workers, minimum wage laborers and service workers, and welfare recipients. Would that work?
What exactly can not be made cheaper elsewhere? What information, consulting or other business information services can not be administered cheaper in Bombay, Serowe or Lima?
What is missing now? Where is our shipping industry?
In addition, the US has PLENTY of capital for emergency situations. No one is going to cripple the US. Try name one basic industry that could never be resurrected, and you'll see that.
Plenty of "capital"? What and where? Owned by whom? You need more than fictional capital to resurrect a manufacturing industry. After a sudden economic crash and meltdown - what is likely if not certain to follow another series of major attacks on our soil - there is not going be any enthusiastic investment in industry here. What you are saying is nonsense in the face of what might be just over the horizon for this country.
World development means: development of many countries. That's pretty clear from the two words, "world", and "development." You are playing semantics.
Semantics? How so?
You use the term "world developement" as if it had a life, imperative and authority of it's own. "World developement" is
newspeak. It is a term introduced and used by global socialists. There is nothing in our Constitution about money from the public purse being used for "world developement" - or any other
public energies or resources being diverted to such use.
And if we follow the policies you're claiming to support (closed border, no manufacturing abroad, etc), we will not develop. The interesting piece of European history you should've studied isn't the EU for this point; look at the Marshall plan and how much the US has benefitted because of it.
Were we "developing" in the 1840s? How about 1910? Was 1958 a particularly rough period for people in this country?
The Marshall plan had many facets to it. How much trade do we do with those European
former States now? As the Europeans increasingly trade
within their political union, move investment there, and
trade in Euros - as is all happening at this time - the dollar is going to find itself a very lonely piece of paper at some point.
You missed the point again. What I am saying is that the US benefits greatly from development and free trade relationships with other nations. Those nations benefit also. It's not a "moral obligation", it's good business sense. If something can be built cheaper in Mexico, and at the same time, something can be made in the US to trade for it, then that is the economically efficient thing to do. Your position takes no account of economic benefit to the US.
For one thing, it is not "free trade". It is very much controlled; those who do not join the club and play by the rules of the club don't get to trade. The IMF and World Bank have been loaning money to corrupt third world governments, who predictably squander it, and bring their countries into a form of economic slavery from which they are unlikely to escape.
Oh yes; there are plenty of "economic benefits"; like to the World bank and it's associated conduits - and the criminals who milk the populations of their national wealth. Of course the oil, gas, mineral and other resource industries make a killing as well.
I think your last comment about "cultural stability" is the most telling. You are not considering whether or not the US profits from its policies; you just want to have your own little American island where people sing the George Washington cherry tree song and pay exhorbitant fees for a bunch of lazy teenagers to build nike shoes. That is a recipe for recession and disaster, not for prosperity
It was the martial aristocratic,
cultured and educated people like George Washington that conquered this land, and turned it from a wilderness into what was set to prosper and overtake every other nation on earth.
The lazy teenagers you speak of were most heavily influenced by the same people who share your historical, political and economic views.
This is the key problem here, LAK. Your distrust of mainstream information and politics is based on...what? What's your credible, reliable source for information? And are these "oligarchs" in the media forcing all americans to watch only CNN and FOX?
Might be your age, could be several factors; but for whatever reason you do not recognize the elements of manipulative political propaganda. Let me put it in the context of an example for you, as your presence here and namesake at least imlpies that you have an interest in firearms and shooting them.
Over the last ten years - out of all the CNN stories wherein firearms, the private ownership and use of, proposed legislation was a major component - how many focused on the right to keep and bear arms in it's proper context? How many adequately referred to the legitimate uses and benefits of firearms? How many shed a deserved focus on any obvious falsity? How many were even "well-balanced"?
Then tell me this; out of ABC, NBC, CBC and any major newspaper or wires service - which of them has at any time over the last twenty years contradicted another on a firearms related story?
You see, for whatever reason you fail to have comprehended what has been right in front of your face for at the very least a few years.
It's obvious to me that you believe in the "secret rich folk controlling everything behind the scenes" conspiracy. In fact, I'm willing to bet decent money that you have a suspicion that the Jews are behind this one.
"Secret rich folk"? Who runs CNN and FOX? Are they "secret"?
You keep mentioning "Jews". What "Jews" are you talking about?
My position: The reason your position is unpopular and neglected in national politics isn't a secret. No one is buying the "be a sovereign and don't pay taxes!" pamphlet lines anymore. You're acting just like the radical democrats who claim that Bush fixed every single vote in his two presidential elections on this issue.
"Be a sovereign"? You've been reading Zeke again. Or was it something you heard on CNN? The income tax is a constructive fraud. If you love it so much, maybe you could lobby your Congressman to have it upped a couple of percent to what is taken from people in socialist Europe. Comrade Bush's bosom pal Tony Blair might help you with some good arguements and a draft to send in.
George Jr's dad, George Herbert Walker - just like his bosom pal Bill Clinton -
lied to the American public before the first invasion of Iraq. He not only lied, he made use of a former Chief of staff and PR firm to engineer the lie and
a false testimony before Congress. And like his dad, George Jr has come up with some interesting fictions himself. It would not surprize me at all if more people had actually voted for Kerry; but it makes no difference - and Kerry of course obligingly and discreetly faded from view.
"Radical democrats"? What is a "radical democrat" pray tell? Is that someone who lies? So what would the anithesis of a "radical democrat" be? A "radical republican" - someone who never lies?
Show me evidence that the media/jews/whoever are controlling information and that they force all Americans to believe it, and I'll reverse my judgment.
Like many people, you have a hangup with "jews". You use the term often, but do not seem to have the faintest idea who you are actually referring to.
The control of information? I have already covered that. If you can show me a major rift in reporting between CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS etc, the major newspapers etc on any major topic of private gun ownership, it's Constitutional basis and application and relationship to violent crime in this country - I am all ears.
You evidently have not recognized the patterns and elements of propaganda and control on your lonesome compartmentalized self; so no let's see if you can spot them with an objective starting point to focus on.
