Quantum Windbag
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Can we please get this thread moved to Rubber Room so I can treat the OP with the contempt he obviously deserves for refusing to deal with facts?
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Another Fact category?
Watching Jack Welch last week, and 60 Minutes Sunday created a kind of whacked out epiphany, Jack the outsourcer in chief is arguing the employment figures are fudged, and 60 minutes is primarily about socialist and communist countries and their massive manufacturing industries. Add the ads for luxury foreign cars, mostly from Japan, and any normal American should wonder. Friends tell me your couch is foreign made too. The Chinese, French, Japanese, Swiss, and Italians are monopolizing technologies America created - but to add insult to injury I find out the American made sunglasses I've bought many times, were crushed by the French who now own much of America's eye glass industry on all levels. Oakley is the brand. So think of this, the cars are mostly foreign made (not ours), the glasses are foreign made, the advanced telecommunications equipment is foreign made and anyone who thinks they can drown their sorrow in an American owned beer company better look for a micro brewery. It would seem the massive taxes of the European socialists, and the communist government must know a thing about markets and manufacturing Americans don't. Anyone know. Look up keiretsu sometime. Jobs anyone, jobs.....
Having watched Johnny Unitas play I forgot about that record till this week. Given the Saints playbook Sunday, Brees was a sure thing. Thankfully Football is not outsourced...yet...
'Hell no I ain't driving to no micro brewery this rot gut from walmart were cheap... drink up.'
Huawei probed for security, espionage risk - CBS News
Sticker shock: Why are glasses so expensive? - CBS News
Wiseacre, You seem to be fudging quite a bit there. And yes, German made autos are at the high end of the luxury status province. Last summer someone told me an acquaintance had two Mercedes as if I was supposed to be impressed. We have two Buicks made here. Take that. Guess which purchases helped the American worker. But my points seem to be floating above the conversation. I know GE was an early and large outsourcer, I read about that many years ago when the topic came up more often than just election time. (I have worked in corporate America for forty years.) But as Americans castigate government, cry over taxes, and blame Obama for everything, work is changing while the jargon of total BS fills the air with no connection to the ground game. The book quoted below explains much of the change in dialogue.
I probably am missing your points, no doubt my failure to connect your dots.
PS The credentials of the bloggers is on a par with almost any journalist. Shooting the messenger of bad news is as old as time.
"A great transformation of American politics began during the years that Ronald Reagan was in the White House. This might not, at first, have appeared the likely outcome of his two administrations. Conservative activists (the same ones who would in later years celebrate Reagan as a saint) struggled during the 1980s with various disappointments: as president, Reagan did not end abortion, he met with Soviet leader Mikhail Corbachev, and he failed to eliminate the welfare state or even notably shrink government bureaucracies. And the enthusiasm within the business community that followed his election did not last long, as the economy sank into a deep recession, with unemployment rising to nearly 10 percent in 1982. As the manufacturing belt began to rust over, political conflicts between industrial companies desperately seeking subsidies and protection and those businesses that were able to thrive in global free markets grew more heated and intense. Tensions erupted between the owners of stock - newly confident and aggressive about using their financial power to compel management to do anything to raise returns - and career corporate executives. Today, the economic changes that began during the 1980s have an air of inevitability about them - the advent of globalization, the shift to a service economy. But at the time these transformations proved devastating to many of the manufacturing companies that had once most vociferously protested the New Deal." Kim Phillips-Fein ('Invisible Hands')