Glenn Beck, John Rich, Shutting Detroit Down-Fox news

John Rich performs his new song on 'Glenn Beck'.

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[messagetocydonia]

This isn't a question of liberal or conservative policies, this is the corporate takeover of America, and they've got both parties in their pockets.

[coolkak12]

Wow, thats smart. We need to put a big fence around scum like you, and keep YOU there!

[MamroshT]

Great song.

[TaylorSaysHi2U]

I want John Rich 2 win Celebrity Apprentice!!!

[acdc30450]

@dicklexic22 Protectionist policies can be helpful some of the time, but harmful at other times. China dominates the US because the US keeps asking China for loans to buy Saudi oil and fund dubya's adventures in the middle east. China produces stuff for first world countries because they pay their workers pennies a day and have much lower standards of quality. Both countries only keep their promises when it benifits the rich of those two countries.

[dicklexic22]

@acdc30450 post-revolution US government didn't simply adapt. We used protectionist trade policies to get a leg up on the more technologically advanced British manufacturing. Today, China hasn't adapted to some vague market-techno darwinism. Instead, they dominate us by protectionist trade policies via currency manipulation. So this whole idea that the market is self-regulating and mainly technologically driven is bogus. Politics have everything to do with the global economy.

[acdc30450]

@dicklexic22 Free trade can be bad, but you can not force jobs to stay here. Major changes have taken place between the glory days of the assembly line and today. For example, robots are now used to assemble parts that used to require a human to do it for money. Cars have also gotten more technologically advanced, creating a need for smart workers and not the guy with the lunch box who punches in at 9 and out at 5. You can not resist the changes of an evolving world, it is either adapt or die.

[acdc30450]

@dicklexic22 Out sourcing is a problem, but Motor City's problems began before that. It started in the late 70's when the Japanese car companies came into the American main stream, during the peak of the oil embargo. Japanese cars had much better fuel efficiency than American cars, had a much longer life spam, and were just better built in general. So the American public started buying Japanese cars at a rapid rate, and the demand for American cars fell, meaning fewer auto workers were needed.

[dicklexic22]

@acdc30450 it is a good song, i admit it and yeah maybe "saved" was too strong of the word but still the commitment to TRY and save Motor city jobs came more from the Democrats and the Republicans were the ones who wanted to let the US auto industry go under. And your also right about Clinton. He was a bigger deregulator and free trader, in some respects, than Ronald Reagan. Still, overall, the Democrats do more to oppose job exporting free trade policies. republicans cheerlead about em'

[acdc30450]

@MKelly1919 The British empire was disolving but it could still swat Germany like a fly on the wall in 1933. The treaty of versailles "even though it was un fair" made the country an easy target. Tojo may have came to power in 1941, but he was the main man long before that. The Japanese invaded Manchura in 1931, followed by main land China and numerous other countries a few years later. You failed misrabley at Hong Kong and if it were not for the US the entire region would be speaking Japanese.

[MKelly1919]

@acdc30450 Terribly sorry, but I don't think we were in the mood for total war just after one of the biggest economic depressions of modern times, not to mention our Empire was dissolving following WWI. Appeasement was the only option for a while, though I agree it went on for too long. How did we appease Tojo for seven years when he came into power in 1941? Your final statement is just utter bullshit as well, sorry. They didn't do the right thing. Hitler forced them to enter the war.

[acdc30450]

@MKelly1919 They still did the right thing so don't bitch. Secondly, if the UK and France had not been such pussies by appeasing Hitler/Mussalini/Tojo for 7 years than the war would not have been as big because the Axis would have been prevented from building up their arsenals " Just like the US is trying to stop Iran from getting the bomb". Thirdly, it was only after the Soviet Union was invaded that the left got behind the war, before that they were vividly opposed to it, as they always are.