Ame®icano;1123834 said:
Too late.
The time to have dealt with this problem was twenty year ago.
But since so many Americans believe that we could screw the working classes for the benefit of the superwealthy (and we got paid off with cheap goods) if we tried to boycott Chinese goods now they're be damned little we could find which IS MADE IN AMERICA.
TRY to find an American made pair of sneakers..
TRY to find an energy effiencet twisty bulb made in America
Go ahead, try.
Free trade destroyed this nation's economy, folks.
THAT is why we have become a nation of debtors.
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Check the origin. Most of those are made in China.
Is that true? OMG!
This country needs some protectionism. The GOP wants to make it a dirty word. Nothing dirty about protecting the American way of life.
Everything I've been saying for the past 20 years has all come true.
Which is why I find it amazing that anyone would continue to argue with me.
Anyways, one thing is for sure, the American people are lucky for a few great men. Without these men, America would be no different than anywhere else. And since America was such a beacon to the rest of the world, without America, those other countries like England & Germany wouldn't be nearly so Democratic as they are now.
George Washington could have been King. How long would it have been until slaves were freed if Lincoln didn't do it? What great men started unions when corporations treated the American middle class like shit? What if FDR wasn't president? And what if Kennedy didn't implement Affirmative Action?
Affirmative action in the US began as a tool to address the persisting inequalities for African Americans in the 1960s. This specific term was first used to describe US government policy in 1961. Directed to all government contracting agencies, President Kennedy's Executive Order 10925 mandated "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin." [1]
The impetus towards affirmative action is twofold: to maximize the benefits of diversity in all levels of society, and to redress disadvantages due to overt, institutional, or involuntary discrimination.
Remember, back when Kennedy implemented AA, people complained. Many of the arguments they used back then, they also use today. We know their arguments were bogus back then. AA was necessary.
Now the new argument is that AA is not necessary anymore. Well I might agree that AA isn't as necessary as it was in the 1960's, but I doubt things are 100% right either.