The politicians in Washington,don't give a shit about the average American citizen.You have to understand that these people are either VERY rich or EXTREMELY well off financially.....do you really think they care at all about you or your families? Its all about MONEY & POWER in Washington.Its not a govt of the people anymore,its ruled by greed and corruption.We are ALL fucked,no amount of complaining will fix it because there are NO honest politicians.
Why is congress ignoring this type of activity that is breaking at the very core of job security & now placing security measures to protect it's own actions? Now that is hilarious! Congress still sits up there monopolizing the public & those who sit in the congressional seating as well. Is corporate amerika an activity of foreign policy & a 1934 Communications Act providing the propaganda-PR thru it's own power of media control? Time for a disfference is in the know & 2discern what 2do now.
We need to close off our markets and start making things here. Let the asshole-elite chase never-ending growth to support their stock price somewhere else. If you want to do business in this country, you set up shop here and hire American workers. If not, move to China for all I care. Go live with the communists. It suits you.
@HemiHead66 What we need is taxation on all imports while at the same time lower taxes on goods produced in the United States. We need to go back to the basics Produced in the USA and Consumed in the USA. The rich don't want a trade war because they can pay for cheap labor in china and import to the United States. God damn we have 22 million people unemployed and we created 40k private jobs last month.
the biggest export that ruined our country is technology. we are paying the price for it now. greed is the biggest thing in general that blasted us not only financailly, but ethically as well. a moral decay of our people. that is what the real problem is. people arent satisfied with enough, and never will be
Bet you didn't expect this kind of shit-storm from an eight-decade old fart, did you timefordifference? Bet you wish you hadn't sent me an unsolicited video-of-crap today, eh? Well, I'm sorry - but you wanted some attention, so enjoy it, but don't think for a second I'll swallow any of this without making some noise.
@DarwinsFriend Actually, I dont mind it; the only thing I request is please drop the language.
If I remember correctly the Republican Party controlled the house and senate? To be certain I would have to research that one. Im sure you will answer that for me. No Im not proposing doing away with elected officials. What Im prosing is house cleaning, putting new faces in Washington, people that havent been contaminated by corporate America or by every special interest group out there.
how would you go about cleaning house? who makes the decision on who runs? would you attempt public funded campains? really.
do you think you can find people who would actually put justice and fairplay before all. i think that is a pretty tall order. im 50 and i can remember my parents arguing the old lesser evil voting.
@tommytoo1 What Im proposing is; One of the People, For the People, By the People. This has been lost and needs to be restored. True Representation is needed today. One person can make a difference and every person should try- JFK. If everyone seriously took an interest in our country and looked at what needs to be done then we could succeed. It would take unity and common beliefs. Even though this would be hard to obtain it doesnt mean we should quit and not try.
@timefordifference If the Republican party controlled the House during those days - how does Clinton get the entire blame for treaty changes during that same time-frame?
Why not simply do away with the true problem?: Lobbyists.
People slammed Obama for getting in the face of the Supreme Court over nearly the same subject during his State of the Union address. The court was 180 degrees off in their decision and deserved to be called out, publicly.
@DarwinsFriend What Im proposing is pulling out of the North American free Trade Agreement and similar treaties and stuffing it up big corporations rear ends. Bring back tariffs and penalize corporations that move their production to foreign nations. What Im proposing would protect the little bit of industry that is still in our country. Why, for my children, for their children and so on so forth.
@timefordifference So what you are saying, as we come out of one of the worst economies since the Great Depression, cause prices to rise to whatever level just so we can purchase items from the United States?
@DarwinsFriend What Im proposing would give the American people a chance to recover, give them some dignity, would be respectful and compassionate. I have principles and values the American people should be treated with respect and dignity, not like a number or a pawn in a play they cant win. Under the current treaties they loose, loose and loose again and again. No more, blackmailing the American worker.
@timefordifference But people working for corporations in America have always been treated less than chess pieces - since the time of Rockefeller. The barons care about profits - what you are proposing is a form of communism, with no desire for capitalistic gain. Just supposed fairness.
That's not what built this country. This isn't 1955. It's 2010. You have to take life by the throat and shake everything from it humanly possible. If you don't - your competitor will.
@DarwinsFriend We need to create jobs in this country by withdrawing from or revising the North American Free Trade Agreement and similar treaties. We need to rebuild some of the manufacturing industry in this country. We need to penalize companies that move their plants to foreign nations to manufacture goods and give companies tax breaks if they stay in the US or return to the US to manufacture Products.
@timefordifference Giving tax breaks to companies so they can create jobs is one the biggest lies anyone could tell. Tax breaks create nothing but bigger bonuses for corporate America. You cant create job positions that DO NOT exist. The bridges between the rich, the middle class and poor are becoming larger than they have ever been in history. Soon there will be no middle class just the rich and the poor. We need to put an end to this madness before its too late.
@timefordifference These treaties are destroying our economy and the economies of the countries involved in the treaties.
This is why we have an unprecedented amount of illegal immigration in this country which is destroying our country and our economy. We need to fine and prosecute companies that hire illegal immigrants and we need to deport those who are here illegally. Only at this point, will the economy start to prosper. Anything less will be useless.
@timefordifference One out of every seven jobs in the United States is based on foreign trade. About 20 million. You have no concept - not even a child's clue - as to how the American economy functions. Clueless. And - in today's reality - pointless.
Mid-1950's? Yeah - that might have worked back then - but it's half a century from that reality. You actually believe we can feed off ourselves. That's a sad joke.
Not everyone can work at Disneyland. Somebody has to buy the a ticket to get in.
@DarwinsFriend Im not saying end foreign trade that would be disastrous, we need to develop and manufacture more products in this country. We need to employ more people, not just at Wal-Mart, grocery stores, service stations, nurses, physicians, attorneys, dry cleaners and etc. Still with job retraining there isnt enough employment to cover the demand in this country considering the increased immigration and illegal immigration.
@timefordifference What do you think happens to the globe's money supply when people in China, normally living on dirt floors, get a manufacturing job - in a city, making 10 times what they do on a rural farm?
If a billion Chinese citizens increase their quality of living, do you actually believe yours, here in the U.S., isn't effected?
Your lifestyle suffers - accept it or not. We Americans have seen our zenith. If you haven't "made it" by now - you never will. You can't reverse history.
@DarwinsFriend Are you kidding me; this has nothing to do with me; this is about the wellbeing of our future generations. This has to do with our childrens future not my or your future.
@timefordifference I am my kid's future - via investments in work, business and the stock market. A real legacy. Not wishing and hoping the clock will some how be turned back.
So no, I;m not kidding you. A masters degree is a bare minimum to eventually get a six-figure position in this country, and foreign countries have understood this for at least the past decade.
The United States will continue to move to the wings of the world stage because of the lack of genuine and true value education.
@timefordifference As well it should be. Competition is a naturally beautiful thing. If you can't react - to protect your own and yourself - then you end up meat for the carnivores of the world.
This is why knowledge of other peoples and cultures of the world - completely alien to your own - is key. One day you may have to trade with them. One day you may have to take up arms with them to fight a foe. Or, one day you may have to go to war with them, and the first tactic is to know your enemy.
@DarwinsFriend I like to go against all odds. Independent thinker, I refuse to follow just because some say it is the right thing to do. Like programmed cows going from the barn to field to feed and back to barn at the end of the day. That is what we are turning into programmed animals, dont fight against business as usual, its not political correct. If you cant beat them join them. Sorry not happening here. Maybe I will self destruct maybe I will not.
That being said, if you've only thought about one or two steps - in the opposite direction - without projecting what will happen next, or the ramifications elsewhere in society, it is like whistling in the dark when you hear the footsteps of a wolf - somewhere out there in the darkness.
I'm a carnivore. Sometimes even a scavenger - looking for opportunity to take advantage. I detest pacifist, utterly.
@timefordifference Create jobs out of what? Import duties higher than any other free nation?
Is that going to make our finished goods more economically appealing to our trading partners, or going to give us the shock of a lifetime when Russian artillery pieces start showing up in Central and South America?
What the living Hell happened to basic, common sense in this country?
@DarwinsFriend Eventually Russian artillery pieces may start showing up in Central and South America regardless of any changes to import or export of manufactured products or any changes made to our current trade agreements, this has and always will be a potential problem for our country.
@timefordifference Ignoring the Russians with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela is evidence that our trade in this hemisphere is already strained. My point was - why accelerate this alienation with more tensions caused by trade tariffs?
@DarwinsFriend Screw them, if they cant take a joke, do you think for one moment if the roles were reversed they would care about how it affects us. That is a big NO
And then what will this larger military do for the US? Make it print more pay-checks for service personnel?
You just can't grasp it. The military is being streamlined as a precise and very fast reaction force. Another 1,000 battle tanks does nothing for that reality. But you want our armed forces to try to do what our steel industry did, turn out more tonnage without a mission.
Childish Bullshit! Nowhere in the Constitution of the United States does is say that elected representative are bound by law to guarantee you a job. NOWHERE.
@timefordifference Come on - don't try to dodge the issue! Your stated position is that the politicians (elected officials) should be protecting the American worker. If you say anything otherwise - what's the point of your video?
The sacred American worker put him/herself in the very position they are in because of greed and the ONLY thing that will change that tide is another world war.
@DarwinsFriend Clinton opened the flood gates for the manufacturing industry to move to foreign nations to take advantage of cheap labor ($7.00 per day) no environmental standards, and they sold the product back to people in this country at a huge profit. We all know it's about greed and power. I work in the corporate environment and we are nothing more than a number, a pawn in a play. Its all about profit and increasing it. I have to admit the unions did not help the situation.
@DarwinsFriend Those who apposed this bills passage in congress STATED the affects on the American manufacturing worker would be catastrophic, American manufacturing would move to foreign nations to take advantage of cheap labor selling out the American worker! They knew it would happen and it did! They screwed their constituents.
@timefordifference Americans screwed themselves. Bigger houses - new cars - and sending their kids to the finest private schools. The well wasn't limitless. The wave we were all riding after WWII died and the tide went back out.
The only way to force that to change is another global conflict.
@DarwinsFriend Lets not kid each other; our members of congress represent big corporations and every special interest group that contributes to their campaigns for office or for re-election. One hand washes the other; I will scratch your back if you scratch mine! It has nothing to do with their constituents! It has everything to do with what will I get in return!
What capabilities? Steam locomotives left the scene 60 years ago. The steel mills, smothered by unions, ran themselves out of business because mini-mills overseas were able to move quickly and give the word market what it needed.
Same with ship builders - that's why they're all in Korea now. Wake Up!
@DarwinsFriend Exactly. We must sell only to ourselves for the foreseeable future if we are to survive. Painful? yes? Doable? yes. But do we have the will? I doubt it. Too many people like yourself can find too many reasons not to do it.
@GreatSatan1> "Too many people like yourself can find too many reasons not to do it."
Like myself? You mean those that would dare employ basic logic and three quarters of a century direct experience? Yes - you are completely correct in that assumption.
Painful? Yes - but not painful enough, as to make doing something stunningly stupid abhorrent.
Doable? Not only NO, But F-NO.
The world has changed and you guys are stuck back in the 1970's on the side of the highway.
@GreatSatan1 I'm a Boeing shareholder. Am I supposed to believe that the 1/3 of Boeing aircraft going to domestic carriers is going to hold my investment over, while I let the other 2/3 overseas sales go away? WTF?
@DarwinsFriend If Boeng can continue to sell airplanes outside the country during a protectionist, isolationist regime fine. If not so be it. I doubt the demand for commercial aircraft will hold up much longer anyway. I support not selling military aircraft to anyone else for awhile.
@GreatSatan1 > "If Boeng can continue to sell airplanes outside the country during a protectionist, isolationist regime fine. If not so be it."
You don't actually see any contradiction in logic within that statement. Is the U.S. to jack up import duties on AirBus products and not expect retaliation against Boeing's products?
Are you out of your mind? 1.5 billion Chinese are about to enter the world's economy and Boeing doesn't get to be a competitive part of that revolution?
@DarwinsFriend You seem to think the world is going to continue to survive without civil strife in America, without civil war in China and elsewhere, as a result of the collapse of the economies of most of the industrialized countries in the world. You seem to live in a cocoon of some kind that protects you from reality.
@GreatSatan1 People that promote Civil War - in any nation - are uncompetitive losers. No different now than in the time of Lincoln.
Innovation in the United States will keep it competitive. Nothing else. The old way has been swept away forever. The tide of natural resources being consumed without conscience - starting in the East and rushing to the West Coast is over.
Exploitation, internally, of things and people is at an end - unless you refuse to maintain your education and skills.
@TAMARLANE Not to do any namecalling, but if you've read world history, Japan tried something like that without the protectionism, in the 17th thru the mid-19th centuries. Also, when you speak of returning our military personel home, how will they be able to support themselves and/or their families? Also, don't forget that the big companies and manufacturers outsourced most American jobs abroad because of their ever increasing GREED.
@mannecyberguy I liked Feudal Japan. Return them, not fire them.It was not GREED , it was SURVIVAL. .The cost to do business in the US was too high. Taxes, environmental controls, regulations and labor union wages drove business out of the US.
@TAMARLANE I found what you've said to be interesting, and so I would to suggest that you log onto the website of Boston Consulting Group, bcg.com, there is much talk about bringing much manufacturing work back to America, which I think is nice, but don't try to force working men and women to work for Industrial Revolution wages, so a few executards can get richer.
create your own economy and jobs
emmanuel43 3 months ago
or the world ends right now. it doesn't really matter to me. We're so flawed and broken i don't even know why we go on.
MrHoppers002 10 months ago
Does USA dare to go military war with China ?
caonimazibai 1 year ago
@caonimazibai
Does China want to declare on the USA?
timefordifference 1 year ago
The politicians in Washington,don't give a shit about the average American citizen.You have to understand that these people are either VERY rich or EXTREMELY well off financially.....do you really think they care at all about you or your families? Its all about MONEY & POWER in Washington.Its not a govt of the people anymore,its ruled by greed and corruption.We are ALL fucked,no amount of complaining will fix it because there are NO honest politicians.
xlr8r2010 1 year ago
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vechorik 6 months ago
Why is congress ignoring this type of activity that is breaking at the very core of job security & now placing security measures to protect it's own actions? Now that is hilarious! Congress still sits up there monopolizing the public & those who sit in the congressional seating as well. Is corporate amerika an activity of foreign policy & a 1934 Communications Act providing the propaganda-PR thru it's own power of media control? Time for a disfference is in the know & 2discern what 2do now.
intrascoobz 1 year ago
We need to close off our markets and start making things here. Let the asshole-elite chase never-ending growth to support their stock price somewhere else. If you want to do business in this country, you set up shop here and hire American workers. If not, move to China for all I care. Go live with the communists. It suits you.
HemiHead66 1 year ago
@HemiHead66 What we need is taxation on all imports while at the same time lower taxes on goods produced in the United States. We need to go back to the basics Produced in the USA and Consumed in the USA. The rich don't want a trade war because they can pay for cheap labor in china and import to the United States. God damn we have 22 million people unemployed and we created 40k private jobs last month.
TheCashistrash 1 year ago
Evolution, within the confines of the Creation is right thinking.
GreatSatan1 1 year ago
@GreatSatan1 Agreed - there is no real conflict, just mankind's ego.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend
EGO is an a acronym.
Easin'
God
Out.
GreatSatan1 1 year ago
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DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
the biggest export that ruined our country is technology. we are paying the price for it now. greed is the biggest thing in general that blasted us not only financailly, but ethically as well. a moral decay of our people. that is what the real problem is. people arent satisfied with enough, and never will be
tommytoo1 1 year ago
Bet you didn't expect this kind of shit-storm from an eight-decade old fart, did you timefordifference? Bet you wish you hadn't sent me an unsolicited video-of-crap today, eh? Well, I'm sorry - but you wanted some attention, so enjoy it, but don't think for a second I'll swallow any of this without making some noise.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend Actually, I dont mind it; the only thing I request is please drop the language.
If I remember correctly the Republican Party controlled the house and senate? To be certain I would have to research that one. Im sure you will answer that for me. No Im not proposing doing away with elected officials. What Im prosing is house cleaning, putting new faces in Washington, people that havent been contaminated by corporate America or by every special interest group out there.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference
how would you go about cleaning house? who makes the decision on who runs? would you attempt public funded campains? really.
do you think you can find people who would actually put justice and fairplay before all. i think that is a pretty tall order. im 50 and i can remember my parents arguing the old lesser evil voting.
tommytoo1 1 year ago
@tommytoo1 What Im proposing is; One of the People, For the People, By the People. This has been lost and needs to be restored. True Representation is needed today. One person can make a difference and every person should try- JFK. If everyone seriously took an interest in our country and looked at what needs to be done then we could succeed. It would take unity and common beliefs. Even though this would be hard to obtain it doesnt mean we should quit and not try.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@tommytoo1 Remember; We are the enforcers of term limits if you dont like them, then replace them.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference If the Republican party controlled the House during those days - how does Clinton get the entire blame for treaty changes during that same time-frame?
Why not simply do away with the true problem?: Lobbyists.
People slammed Obama for getting in the face of the Supreme Court over nearly the same subject during his State of the Union address. The court was 180 degrees off in their decision and deserved to be called out, publicly.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend What Im proposing is pulling out of the North American free Trade Agreement and similar treaties and stuffing it up big corporations rear ends. Bring back tariffs and penalize corporations that move their production to foreign nations. What Im proposing would protect the little bit of industry that is still in our country. Why, for my children, for their children and so on so forth.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference So what you are saying, as we come out of one of the worst economies since the Great Depression, cause prices to rise to whatever level just so we can purchase items from the United States?
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend What Im proposing would give the American people a chance to recover, give them some dignity, would be respectful and compassionate. I have principles and values the American people should be treated with respect and dignity, not like a number or a pawn in a play they cant win. Under the current treaties they loose, loose and loose again and again. No more, blackmailing the American worker.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference But people working for corporations in America have always been treated less than chess pieces - since the time of Rockefeller. The barons care about profits - what you are proposing is a form of communism, with no desire for capitalistic gain. Just supposed fairness.
That's not what built this country. This isn't 1955. It's 2010. You have to take life by the throat and shake everything from it humanly possible. If you don't - your competitor will.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend We need to create jobs in this country by withdrawing from or revising the North American Free Trade Agreement and similar treaties. We need to rebuild some of the manufacturing industry in this country. We need to penalize companies that move their plants to foreign nations to manufacture goods and give companies tax breaks if they stay in the US or return to the US to manufacture Products.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference Giving tax breaks to companies so they can create jobs is one the biggest lies anyone could tell. Tax breaks create nothing but bigger bonuses for corporate America. You cant create job positions that DO NOT exist. The bridges between the rich, the middle class and poor are becoming larger than they have ever been in history. Soon there will be no middle class just the rich and the poor. We need to put an end to this madness before its too late.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference These treaties are destroying our economy and the economies of the countries involved in the treaties.
This is why we have an unprecedented amount of illegal immigration in this country which is destroying our country and our economy. We need to fine and prosecute companies that hire illegal immigrants and we need to deport those who are here illegally. Only at this point, will the economy start to prosper. Anything less will be useless.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference One out of every seven jobs in the United States is based on foreign trade. About 20 million. You have no concept - not even a child's clue - as to how the American economy functions. Clueless. And - in today's reality - pointless.
Mid-1950's? Yeah - that might have worked back then - but it's half a century from that reality. You actually believe we can feed off ourselves. That's a sad joke.
Not everyone can work at Disneyland. Somebody has to buy the a ticket to get in.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend Im not saying end foreign trade that would be disastrous, we need to develop and manufacture more products in this country. We need to employ more people, not just at Wal-Mart, grocery stores, service stations, nurses, physicians, attorneys, dry cleaners and etc. Still with job retraining there isnt enough employment to cover the demand in this country considering the increased immigration and illegal immigration.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference What do you think happens to the globe's money supply when people in China, normally living on dirt floors, get a manufacturing job - in a city, making 10 times what they do on a rural farm?
If a billion Chinese citizens increase their quality of living, do you actually believe yours, here in the U.S., isn't effected?
Your lifestyle suffers - accept it or not. We Americans have seen our zenith. If you haven't "made it" by now - you never will. You can't reverse history.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend Are you kidding me; this has nothing to do with me; this is about the wellbeing of our future generations. This has to do with our childrens future not my or your future.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference I am my kid's future - via investments in work, business and the stock market. A real legacy. Not wishing and hoping the clock will some how be turned back.
So no, I;m not kidding you. A masters degree is a bare minimum to eventually get a six-figure position in this country, and foreign countries have understood this for at least the past decade.
The United States will continue to move to the wings of the world stage because of the lack of genuine and true value education.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend Im honestly happy for you and your children; everyone will not have that opportunity.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference As well it should be. Competition is a naturally beautiful thing. If you can't react - to protect your own and yourself - then you end up meat for the carnivores of the world.
This is why knowledge of other peoples and cultures of the world - completely alien to your own - is key. One day you may have to trade with them. One day you may have to take up arms with them to fight a foe. Or, one day you may have to go to war with them, and the first tactic is to know your enemy.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend I like to go against all odds. Independent thinker, I refuse to follow just because some say it is the right thing to do. Like programmed cows going from the barn to field to feed and back to barn at the end of the day. That is what we are turning into programmed animals, dont fight against business as usual, its not political correct. If you cant beat them join them. Sorry not happening here. Maybe I will self destruct maybe I will not.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference That is wonderful - to a point.
Independence is never too expensive.
That being said, if you've only thought about one or two steps - in the opposite direction - without projecting what will happen next, or the ramifications elsewhere in society, it is like whistling in the dark when you hear the footsteps of a wolf - somewhere out there in the darkness.
I'm a carnivore. Sometimes even a scavenger - looking for opportunity to take advantage. I detest pacifist, utterly.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend I do realize for every action there will be a reaction and knowing is the end result worth the risk, is the true question!
timefordifference 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend You are correct; know your enemies and those who are claiming to be your friend.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference Create jobs out of what? Import duties higher than any other free nation?
Is that going to make our finished goods more economically appealing to our trading partners, or going to give us the shock of a lifetime when Russian artillery pieces start showing up in Central and South America?
What the living Hell happened to basic, common sense in this country?
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend Eventually Russian artillery pieces may start showing up in Central and South America regardless of any changes to import or export of manufactured products or any changes made to our current trade agreements, this has and always will be a potential problem for our country.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference Ignoring the Russians with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela is evidence that our trade in this hemisphere is already strained. My point was - why accelerate this alienation with more tensions caused by trade tariffs?
Dumb.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend Screw them, if they cant take a joke, do you think for one moment if the roles were reversed they would care about how it affects us. That is a big NO
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference > "Screw them, if they cant take a joke,"
That's a child's response to a serious situation.
Again, Dumb.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend What can say? Why thank you, thank you very much
timefordifference 1 year ago
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"Deport all ACTIVIST environmentalists, communists and homosexuals."
This is patently stupid.
Guess you'd be in favor of suspending the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States too?
You've got to be kidding or an idiot - which is it?
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
You say you want to "Build up our military."
Who's going to pay for this expansion?
And then what will this larger military do for the US? Make it print more pay-checks for service personnel?
You just can't grasp it. The military is being streamlined as a precise and very fast reaction force. Another 1,000 battle tanks does nothing for that reality. But you want our armed forces to try to do what our steel industry did, turn out more tonnage without a mission.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
Childish Bullshit! Nowhere in the Constitution of the United States does is say that elected representative are bound by law to guarantee you a job. NOWHERE.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend I don't see anything in this video that states or even insinuates the constitution guarantees anything about jobs. Do you?
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference Come on - don't try to dodge the issue! Your stated position is that the politicians (elected officials) should be protecting the American worker. If you say anything otherwise - what's the point of your video?
The sacred American worker put him/herself in the very position they are in because of greed and the ONLY thing that will change that tide is another world war.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend Clinton opened the flood gates for the manufacturing industry to move to foreign nations to take advantage of cheap labor ($7.00 per day) no environmental standards, and they sold the product back to people in this country at a huge profit. We all know it's about greed and power. I work in the corporate environment and we are nothing more than a number, a pawn in a play. Its all about profit and increasing it. I have to admit the unions did not help the situation.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference Were the Democrats running Congress during the 8 years that Clinton was president?
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend Those who apposed this bills passage in congress STATED the affects on the American manufacturing worker would be catastrophic, American manufacturing would move to foreign nations to take advantage of cheap labor selling out the American worker! They knew it would happen and it did! They screwed their constituents.
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference Americans screwed themselves. Bigger houses - new cars - and sending their kids to the finest private schools. The well wasn't limitless. The wave we were all riding after WWII died and the tide went back out.
The only way to force that to change is another global conflict.
Is that what you're proposing?
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend Lets not kid each other; our members of congress represent big corporations and every special interest group that contributes to their campaigns for office or for re-election. One hand washes the other; I will scratch your back if you scratch mine! It has nothing to do with their constituents! It has everything to do with what will I get in return!
timefordifference 1 year ago
@timefordifference Again, who was in control of Congress during Bill Clinton's administrations?
Are you proposing doing away with elected officials? A fascist state, perhaps?
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
The US must go protectionist and isolationist for awhile.
Bring our military home, from everywhere. Close our borders. Build up our military.
Rebuild our industrial capabilities. Develop our own energy resources. Deport all ACTIVIST environmentalists, communists and homosexuals.
(not all environmentalists, homosexuals and communists, only the ACTIVIST ones)
Improve our agriculture and water resources.
TAMARLANE 1 year ago
@TAMARLANE >"Rebuild our industrial capabilities."
What capabilities? Steam locomotives left the scene 60 years ago. The steel mills, smothered by unions, ran themselves out of business because mini-mills overseas were able to move quickly and give the word market what it needed.
Same with ship builders - that's why they're all in Korea now. Wake Up!
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend Rebuilding our industrial capabilities in conjunction with isolationism and protectionism.
GreatSatan1 1 year ago
@GreatSatan1 That's fine - but who are we going to sell to? Ourselves?
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend Exactly. We must sell only to ourselves for the foreseeable future if we are to survive. Painful? yes? Doable? yes. But do we have the will? I doubt it. Too many people like yourself can find too many reasons not to do it.
GreatSatan1 1 year ago
@GreatSatan1> "Too many people like yourself can find too many reasons not to do it."
Like myself? You mean those that would dare employ basic logic and three quarters of a century direct experience? Yes - you are completely correct in that assumption.
Painful? Yes - but not painful enough, as to make doing something stunningly stupid abhorrent.
Doable? Not only NO, But F-NO.
The world has changed and you guys are stuck back in the 1970's on the side of the highway.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@TAMARLANE
All these in conjunction with isolationism and protectionism.
GreatSatan1 1 year ago
@GreatSatan1 I'm a Boeing shareholder. Am I supposed to believe that the 1/3 of Boeing aircraft going to domestic carriers is going to hold my investment over, while I let the other 2/3 overseas sales go away? WTF?
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend If Boeng can continue to sell airplanes outside the country during a protectionist, isolationist regime fine. If not so be it. I doubt the demand for commercial aircraft will hold up much longer anyway. I support not selling military aircraft to anyone else for awhile.
GreatSatan1 1 year ago
@GreatSatan1 > "If Boeng can continue to sell airplanes outside the country during a protectionist, isolationist regime fine. If not so be it."
You don't actually see any contradiction in logic within that statement. Is the U.S. to jack up import duties on AirBus products and not expect retaliation against Boeing's products?
Are you out of your mind? 1.5 billion Chinese are about to enter the world's economy and Boeing doesn't get to be a competitive part of that revolution?
WTF?
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@DarwinsFriend You seem to think the world is going to continue to survive without civil strife in America, without civil war in China and elsewhere, as a result of the collapse of the economies of most of the industrialized countries in the world. You seem to live in a cocoon of some kind that protects you from reality.
Of an early death
showing no sign
the cicada's voice
GreatSatan1 1 year ago
@GreatSatan1 People that promote Civil War - in any nation - are uncompetitive losers. No different now than in the time of Lincoln.
Innovation in the United States will keep it competitive. Nothing else. The old way has been swept away forever. The tide of natural resources being consumed without conscience - starting in the East and rushing to the West Coast is over.
Exploitation, internally, of things and people is at an end - unless you refuse to maintain your education and skills.
DarwinsFriend 1 year ago
@TAMARLANE Not to do any namecalling, but if you've read world history, Japan tried something like that without the protectionism, in the 17th thru the mid-19th centuries. Also, when you speak of returning our military personel home, how will they be able to support themselves and/or their families? Also, don't forget that the big companies and manufacturers outsourced most American jobs abroad because of their ever increasing GREED.
mannecyberguy 2 months ago
@mannecyberguy I liked Feudal Japan. Return them, not fire them.It was not GREED , it was SURVIVAL. .The cost to do business in the US was too high. Taxes, environmental controls, regulations and labor union wages drove business out of the US.
TAMARLANE 2 months ago
@TAMARLANE I found what you've said to be interesting, and so I would to suggest that you log onto the website of Boston Consulting Group, bcg.com, there is much talk about bringing much manufacturing work back to America, which I think is nice, but don't try to force working men and women to work for Industrial Revolution wages, so a few executards can get richer.
mannecyberguy 1 month ago
We need to hang Them out to dry!
mozart642 1 year ago
@mozart642 HOW???
mannecyberguy 2 months ago