Patco's post is but a recitation of right wing distortion of reality to better suit their ideological, and truth be damned, that is so profound, the idea of our nation coming together again on even the most straightforward of issues, seems at this point to be a hopeless one.
Such deeply flawed dogma is believed with the fervor of religious zealots by those on the right wing. This is a sad time for our nation. Thankfully 2012 is still many months away. Time is the enemy of dogma and nonsense. In Wisconsin right wing dogma and nonsense is already trembling before the American people.
Wickless candles, you have got to be kidding me! Free markets, supply and demand? I don't know where you went to school but let us look at the facts, the reality of the markets. Giant corporations have emerged as a result of the un-enforced laws against monopolies and other unfair business practices that were meant to protect the free markets. Price fixing, gouging, and the lack of competition has been the result. Add to that the contrived financial markets such as the futures market, derivatives, and other speculative creations of wall street. Supply and demand is totally manipulated. Free trade is an even bigger joke than the fantasy free market. What it comes down to are the so called multi national corporations exploiting workers around the world and being free to sell their slave labor goods in the largest consumer market in the world. They have no sense of patriotism like you or I because they serve the almighty dollar! Doing business in a responsible manner cuts in on their enormous profit so health, safety, environment, fairness, decency, honesty, are things which cut in on their enormous profits, which is unacceptable. When you say trade deficit, how many of those trade dollars do you think are really owed to U.S. corporations who own China, India, Mexico, the Phillipines, Japan, Russia, South America, the middle east, Africa, etc? You better wake up girl and take a look at the world around you and realize the depth of the deception they have "taught" you. The new world order is about to enslave the majority of the human race for their royal pleasure!
Wow anonymous you got that right, crazy Christian republicans. Only let me add greedy and egotistical too. Walker, like all republicans and many democrats, lies through his teeth. It is what we have come to expect and indeed tolerate from our politicians. It doesn't have to be that way! Think about it and you find their lying fits a pattern. They talk about how they are going to benefit the public good and even swear an oath to it. Once elected they serve those who fill their coffers. For Obama it was the banksters, Wall Street, and the Bush/Cheney cartel. He has done little if anything to help Americans. He is a republican as far as I'm concerned. Walker is so blatantly on the take it is pathetic. He is a hitman for the union busting business interests that still want even more profit for their greedy little selves. Now you know what they mean by the "red" states. Publicize the costs and privatize the profits. "Free market communism" is what Walker wants for his puppet masters. Going to China was the first step, republican communism is the next. Why do good Christians support the great republican devil? Their conservative brainwashing and blind obedience has left them woefully incapable of using their God given eyes to see or mind to think. So many are content to be part of the flock despite the fact that they are being used by Satin to enslave the remnants of free man. Most do not realize that by creating a world that begs for Armageddon they put themselves on the wrong side of the Almighty. If you don't live your life here on earth for the betterment of mankind, all mankind, then you have failed God and yourself, regardless of what the church tells you. All conservatives care about is themselves and their own enrichment.
Trade and Consumerism is a vastly complex subject that a TV show or even college course can't completely cover.
Venture capitalists encourage/require outsourcing to india and china as part of any new business plan.
Walmart requires suppliers to mfg their goods overseas, preferring china, but other retailers to compete with walmart also sell imports from everywhere but the U.S.
It's nearly impossible to find anything made in the USA, I always check the labels. Costco carries a surprising amount of USA made goods though but not enough to undo the damage Walmart is doing. Target, Walmart, etc. have mostly imported chinese made low-grade products. Don't frequent a retailer that encourages offshored manufacturing, part-time employment w/o benefits and unfair business practices.
Other contributing factors to our record trade deficit is the fact that China has been buying up treasury bonds for years, $900 billion dollars and counting. They aren't doing this to be nice. They're using it for leverage and to enable our "republican" spend and charge mentality. Democrats may tax and spend but Republicans Charge and Spend and give tax credits to everyone but the middle class and poor, how unfair is that.
China's currency and banking system are controlled by the government, not the world monetary fund. They're free to alter the value of their yuan independent of world currency.
China *still* enjoys MFN (most favored nation trade status) with the U.S. They get significant benefits from this status including reduced import tariffs, etc.
China doesn't have any kind of product safety oversight. The FDA, USDA, etc. can't inspect the sheer volume of products we import globally so we get lead tainted baby food and toxic linens that don't pass U.S. required standards. People continue buying Made in China though.
Chinese mfg companies routinely copy (steal) the designs of products they make for U.S. companies with disregard for patents, copyrights, etc.
U.S. and foreign Government subsidies, tax breaks and incentives to multi-national corporations on everything from farms that overproduce corn, cotton, and other produce to textiles, car parts, etc. artificially inflate food prices and fill the coffers of corporate shareholders while undercutting competition and small family farmers here in the U.S. Can you say Monsanto?
NAFTA helps Chinese made products enter the U.S. and avoid tariffs by permitting foreign goods to mexico, mexican worker puts a sticker on the box and goods are shipped to U.S. by way of south america.
Jobs are being off-shored at a significant rate, tax loopholes, poor H1B regulations, full-time workers being replaced by temporary workers with no rights, big banks and wallstreet collapsing the housing market, erosing of worker rights and a disappearing middle class.
The U.S. education system is graduating illiterate students, republican politicitions and multi-national corporate agendas are undermining tax payer and voter voice.
No other country in the world off-shores high-paying jobs at the rate U.S. corporations are.
Once management is off-shored, we'll see the demise of free market and the middle class.
I've picked on China enough. How about India? They have a closed market for importing U.S. technologies. They export labor, import some but the majority of telecom, building, etc. are restricted imports. You cannot ship equipment directly to India without huge costs associated with them (import tariffs and gov't restrictions).
Trade is a two-way street, or should be. The multi-nationals, sell-out politicians, ignorant/apathetic consumers, tax law, import and export regulations and subsidies all contribute to job loss, consumer risk, high-costs due to low-quality goods and the rapid decline of the USA and quality of living.
I'm sure global warming, corruption, politics and collusion are also in play but that's all for now.
Isn't it funny that the highest court in the land has opened the door for the most disgusting reprehensible humans ever to inhabit this planet! Just look at it from their perspective, if your daddy left you the millions he managed to hoard by taking advantage of other members of his race who were uninfected with greed, wouldn't you want to conserve what you've got and make sure the gravy train keeps rolling?
These people with their liars clubs are taking the lessons learned from the fascists who destroyed Germany in the last century, and with the help of technology and advanced propaganda techniques, applying them to the American public as part of the new world order campaign meant to move the working class back to the 19th century.
These people are so incredibly greedy and short-sighted they don't even realize they are cutting their own throats. One thing for sure is there is no hope of salvation for their ilk. We must,as a society, rid ourselves of those among us whose greed is so enormous, whose self aggrandizement so insatiable, whose lack of compassion for their fellow man so non-existent, that they are convinced of their superiority and their God given right to dictate how others will live.
You can't believe anything a republican says, period. But you better believe a conservative is looking to conserve what he's got and working hard to keep you from getting any. And chances are he is trying to take you for all you are worth!
Only a fool would vote republican since they caused the financial disaster we are mired in!
Only a fool would vote republican since they are the party who created the outrageous debt they claim to have solutions for.
Only a fool would vote republican since their spin about government being the problem only applies if they are running it! They want to shrink government, but wait, in a democracy government is we the people so how do you shrink that? No they want to be the all powerful government that takes from the many and gives to the few. Upside down communism is what they have to offer and what fool would vote for that?
First they sold us out to China, now they want us to be China, where people are forced to work for little or nothing, have no bargaining rights, no elections, and nothing but propaganda on T.V.. In China the government owns the media, just like here in the U.S.A. Thanks to the republicans and their God fearing victims who so foolishly support them.
I guess it won't be long 'til armageddeon thanks to christians who refuse to see the real God. Republicans are the party of the devil, you better wake up!
Wickless candles, you have got to be kidding me! Free markets, supply and demand? I don't know where you went to school but let us look at the facts, the reality of the markets. Giant corporations have emerged as a result of the un-enforced laws against monopolies and other unfair business practices that were meant to protect the free markets. Price fixing, gouging, and the lack of competition has been the result. Add to that the contrived financial markets such as the futures market, derivatives, and other speculative creations of wall street. Supply and demand is totally manipulated. Free trade is an even bigger joke than the fantasy free market. What it comes down to are the so called multi national corporations exploiting workers around the world and being free to sell their slave labor goods in the largest consumer market in the world. They have no sense of patriotism like you or I because they serve the almighty dollar! Doing business in a responsible manner cuts in on their enormous profit so health, safety, environment, fairness, decency, honesty, are things which cut in on their enormous profits, which is unacceptable. When you say trade deficit, how many of those trade dollars do you think are really owed to U.S. corporations who own China, India, Mexico, the Phillipines, Japan, Russia, South America, the middle east, Africa, etc? You better wake up girl and take a look at the world around you and realize the depth of the deception they have "taught" you. The new world order is about to enslave the majority of the human race for their royal pleasure!
Trade and Consumerism is a vastly complex subject that a TV show or even college course can't completely cover.
Venture capitalists encourage/require outsourcing to india and china as part of any new business plan.
Walmart requires suppliers to mfg their goods overseas, preferring china, but other retailers to compete with walmart also sell imports from everywhere but the U.S.
It's nearly impossible to find anything made in the USA, I always check the labels. Costco carries a surprising amount of USA made goods though but not enough to undo the damage Walmart is doing. Target, Walmart, etc. have mostly imported chinese made low-grade products. Don't frequent a retailer that encourages offshored manufacturing, part-time employment w/o benefits and unfair business practices.
Other contributing factors to our record trade deficit is the fact that China has been buying up treasury bonds for years, $900 billion dollars and counting. They aren't doing this to be nice. They're using it for leverage and to enable our "republican" spend and charge mentality. Democrats may tax and spend but Republicans Charge and Spend and give tax credits to everyone but the middle class and poor, how unfair is that.
China's currency and banking system are controlled by the government, not the world monetary fund. They're free to alter the value of their yuan independent of world currency.
China *still* enjoys MFN (most favored nation trade status) with the U.S. They get significant benefits from this status including reduced import tariffs, etc.
China doesn't have any kind of product safety oversight. The FDA, USDA, etc. can't inspect the sheer volume of products we import globally so we get lead tainted baby food and toxic linens that don't pass U.S. required standards. People continue buying Made in China though.
Chinese mfg companies routinely copy (steal) the designs of products they make for U.S. companies with disregard for patents, copyrights, etc.
U.S. and foreign Government subsidies, tax breaks and incentives to multi-national corporations on everything from farms that overproduce corn, cotton, and other produce to textiles, car parts, etc. artificially inflate food prices and fill the coffers of corporate shareholders while undercutting competition and small family farmers here in the U.S. Can you say Monsanto?
NAFTA helps Chinese made products enter the U.S. and avoid tariffs by permitting foreign goods to mexico, mexican worker puts a sticker on the box and goods are shipped to U.S. by way of south america.
Jobs are being off-shored at a significant rate, tax loopholes, poor H1B regulations, full-time workers being replaced by temporary workers with no rights, big banks and wallstreet collapsing the housing market, erosing of worker rights and a disappearing middle class.
The U.S. education system is graduating illiterate students, republican politicitions and multi-national corporate agendas are undermining tax payer and voter voice.
No other country in the world off-shores high-paying jobs at the rate U.S. corporations are.
Once management is off-shored, we'll see the demise of free market and the middle class.
I've picked on China enough. How about India? They have a closed market for importing U.S. technologies. They export labor, import some but the majority of telecom, building, etc. are restricted imports. You cannot ship equipment directly to India without huge costs associated with them (import tariffs and gov't restrictions).
Trade is a two-way street, or should be. The multi-nationals, sell-out politicians, ignorant/apathetic consumers, tax law, import and export regulations and subsidies all contribute to job loss, consumer risk, high-costs due to low-quality goods and the rapid decline of the USA and quality of living.
I'm sure global warming, corruption, politics and collusion are also in play but that's all for now.
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