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- Jan 30, 2013
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I get such a kick out of people opposing "globalization", as if they knew what that meant. Globalization is economic law of the 21st century. Fighting it is equivalent to fighting the law of gravity. The only countries I know of that are not in globalization economies are Cuba and North Korea, and Cuba will be soon. Every auto manufacturer in the world builds parts all over the world. Not only that, there is no such thing as an "American car company". Fords sells more cars in countries other than American than they do in America. GM does the same. Chrysler is not even owned by an American company. Textiles, TV's, clothing, toys, electronics, steel, plastics, petroleum, gas, ships, consumer goods, iron ore and rare earth mining, pharmaceuticals. You name it. It all comes from every country in the world. 93% of everything sold in Walmart is produced, at least in part, in foreign countries. Even airplanes are manufactured in Europe. The only damned thing this country manufactures here and sells elsewhere are weapon systems. And there are, apparently, millions of Americans who don't like that system and think that they can go back to a world economic system based on nationalism, which is exactly what it was in 1940. Nations competing with one another means nations willing to go to war over scarce resources, like Japan, who found himself SOL because they had no petroleum, iron, or rubber. NAZIS headed straight for the oil fields of Romania after invading Russia. Not that it is even POSSIBLE to return to economic nationalism. The economy of the world today is interwoven, and interdependent to such an extent that if a major trading partner, such as China, failed, it would bring the world right back to 1929, on a world wide basis. Trump is all talk, with no economic pragmatism. He doesn't even believe it himself. But somewhere there is a Fruit-of-the Loom x-employee who thinks that Trump will reset the hands of time back to 1948, and they will be making men's briefs again in South Carolina. The whole thing is pathetic.