The sad part is that we wouldn't even be in this situation if we didn't overvalue our services and produced products here in the gold ole USA. I'm sorry but if you work as a clerk at a grocery store or a fast food place, that doesn't warrant $15/hr. Not too sure what happened to "if you want to make more money, learn a skill" theory. I'm pretty sure that the unions played a big hand in the amount of foreign products by pricing themselves right out of the market and China was all too willing to undercut anybody for the money.
Unions did it to cars. I stopped buying USA cars for years because the cost benefit wS so much worse than imports. I'm happy it's swinging back and drive American again.
Simple solution to this problem: Limit the number of imported cars until the demand drives up the price until American made can compete. Or place a tariff on imports made by slave labor to level out the playing field and make it easier to start a business building cars locally. IDK maybe by subsidizing manufacturing and agriculture and local natural resource collection/processing and offering grants for people to start their own business and lowering property taxes in industrial zoned areas and eliminating cheap foreign labor and making the market more hostile to foreign money and making it illegal for a non-citizen or a company with a majority foreign shareholder or a shell company to own facilities/land within the border of the continental United States. Maybe not give corporations personhood and outlaw lobbying and bribery in all its forms
Reminds me of this part from "The Fate of Empires"
There does not appear to be any doubt that
money is the agent which causes the decline
of this strong, brave and self-confident
people. The decline in courage, enterprise
and a sense of duty is, however, gradual.
The first direction in which wealth injures
the nation is a moral one. Money replaces
honour and adventure as the objective of the
best young men. Moreover, men do not
normally seek to make money for their
country or their community, but for them-
selves. Gradually, and almost imperceptibly,
the Age of Affluence silences the voice of
duty. The object of the young and the
ambitious is no longer fame, honour or
service, but cash.
Education undergoes the same gradual
transformation. No longer do schools aim at
producing brave patriots ready to serve their
country. Parents and students alike seek the
educational qualifications which will
command the highest salaries. The Arab
moralist, Ghazali (1058-1111), complains in
these very same words of the lowering of
objectives in the declining Arab world of his
time. Students, he says, no longer attend
college to acquire learning and virtue, but to
obtain those qualifications which will enable
them to grow rich. The same situation is
everywhere evident among us in the West
today
The sad part is that we wouldn't even be in this situation if we didn't overvalue our services and produced products here in the gold ole USA. I'm sorry but if you work as a clerk at a grocery store or a fast food place, that doesn't warrant $15/hr. Not too sure what happened to "if you want to make more money, learn a skill" theory. I'm pretty sure that the unions played a big hand in the amount of foreign products by pricing themselves right out of the market and China was all too willing to undercut anybody for the money.
Unions did it to cars. I stopped buying USA cars for years because the cost benefit wS so much worse than imports. I'm happy it's swinging back and drive American again.
Then it should come as no surprise to us all that Joe Biden may be the single largest union supporter in D.C.... it's all starting to make sense now
He's not worth $15/hour
Simple solution to this problem: Limit the number of imported cars until the demand drives up the price until American made can compete. Or place a tariff on imports made by slave labor to level out the playing field and make it easier to start a business building cars locally. IDK maybe by subsidizing manufacturing and agriculture and local natural resource collection/processing and offering grants for people to start their own business and lowering property taxes in industrial zoned areas and eliminating cheap foreign labor and making the market more hostile to foreign money and making it illegal for a non-citizen or a company with a majority foreign shareholder or a shell company to own facilities/land within the border of the continental United States. Maybe not give corporations personhood and outlaw lobbying and bribery in all its forms
Where do I sign? Are you running for office soon?
I'm just an unemployed fat 32 year old truck driver I ain't running for anything.
Reminds me of this part from "The Fate of Empires"
There does not appear to be any doubt that money is the agent which causes the decline of this strong, brave and self-confident people. The decline in courage, enterprise and a sense of duty is, however, gradual. The first direction in which wealth injures the nation is a moral one. Money replaces honour and adventure as the objective of the best young men. Moreover, men do not normally seek to make money for their country or their community, but for them- selves. Gradually, and almost imperceptibly, the Age of Affluence silences the voice of duty. The object of the young and the ambitious is no longer fame, honour or service, but cash. Education undergoes the same gradual transformation. No longer do schools aim at producing brave patriots ready to serve their country. Parents and students alike seek the educational qualifications which will command the highest salaries. The Arab moralist, Ghazali (1058-1111), complains in these very same words of the lowering of objectives in the declining Arab world of his time. Students, he says, no longer attend college to acquire learning and virtue, but to obtain those qualifications which will enable them to grow rich. The same situation is everywhere evident among us in the West today
So beautifully stated.