  Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 1383 Registered: 05-2006 |
As long as China and other countries hold a monopoly on labor and manufacturing, free markets are a pipe dream that neo-cons and others such as "uncle" Milton Freidmen, and his illk continue to shove down American's throat's. There can never be a 'free market', as long as our trading partners practice their own protectionalist policies. Maybe Pat Buchannan was right after all... | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 3514 Registered: 02-2007 |
It's a "global economy"...enjoy. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19679 Registered: 11-2006 |
Why do they hold a monopoly? Because they are more competitive? Start there. | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 4296 Registered: 11-2007 |
Yeah, I guess if competitive manufacturing wages mean 80 cents an hour, and workers being locked up in barracks after their shift. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19689 Registered: 11-2006 |
Not in the China that Obama wants us to emulate, and thinks that they are far ahead of us. That China? Truth be told, the quality of the products and services are inferior. The prices are lower, and the low end labor is cheaper. There is a place for all of those characteristics, but it is ultimately a secondary place. Once they develop (if they develop) out of the middle ages, the wages will go up as will the expectation, and the playing field will level out. As far as how they treat the populace? They are a socialist communist country remember, just like Obama likes it as per his autobiography. Hey, maybe that is why he thinks we need to "catch up" with them? | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 6853 Registered: 12-2005 |
Here's another example of how privatization is creating an incentive for corruption. From today's Detroit News: Youth convictions overturned in Pennsylvania quote:According to Unanimocracy's "Judges Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and Michael T. Conahan should be legally put to death", the judges were "charged with taking kick-backs from a private juvenile jail facility." Note that such schemes are ultimately financed with your tax dollars. | ||
Oladub Member Username: Oladub Post Number: 1346 Registered: 08-2006 |
Congress is given the power to tax imports in Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution. However, If Americans instead choose to keep electing Republican and Democrat leaders who instead promote NAFTA, the WTO, promote the idea of international taxes, and favor the interests of international bankers, then we will just have to lamely blame China for our problems. Getting one's US Representative to co-sponsor HR 1207 (46 on board so far) would be a start in allowing Congress to at least get a peek into the privately owned Federal Reserve that controls so much of our monetary policy. Presently, the GAO is not even allowed to ask the Fed about "transactions for or with a foreign central bank, government of a foreign country, or nonprivate international financing organization." http://www.campaignforliberty. com/blog.php?view=14331 | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19733 Registered: 11-2006 |
Why? Because there is still a shred of respect for private enterprise and free trade. |
