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本帖最后由 rlsrls08 于 2009-12-4 03:23 编辑
This country has gone downhill, because we allowed Coporate America, to send all of our manufacturing off shore, sacrificing the jobs and well being of citizens.
Most ordinary Americans get that. It is government that doesn't get it.
Government must take action to provide incentives for American companies to produce in America. Plain and simple.
Americans, must stop buying what is cheapest, and they must start buying American, once again. It is in their overall best interest, to buy less, and buy American.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | Dec 3, 2009 10:45:39 AM
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Many Americans dream of living in Russia where you still have the Liberty to "drink one for the road".....whereas in America it would put you in jail, raise your insurance to crazy high levels, and put a negative hit on your record.
Pretty sad when the Communists appear to have more Liberty than Americans don't you think?
I wonder how much Liberty those Chinese have? Can't be more restricted than we are by our Government.
Posted by: Phil | Dec 3, 2009 10:56:37 AM
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It's rathern naive to point fingers at coporate america. Take GM as an example, it's really easy for us to blame companies like GM to invest in China -- therefore, shipping jobs overseas. For GM, however, it's a game of survival. GM is losing over $1,000 each vechicle it makes here in North America. However, it's making billions of dollars of profit in China. Without profits from China and other countries, GM would have been dead. which means tens of thousands people who're still working for GM today in the US would have vanished. As I see it, it all comes down to competitiveness. GM would be the greatest auto maker again in the universe if it could beat the Japanese in quality, the Chinese in cost of operations. It's really what capitalism is all about: you'll die if you can't compete.
Posted by: Adrian | Dec 3, 2009 11:29:20 AM
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Americans are simply wising up to where this Administration is taking us. Yes, the honeymoon is over!
Posted by: Bill | Dec 3, 2009 11:33:24 AM
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The plan (international socialism) has always been the deflating of America and the inflating of the under developed world. That is what Outsourcing is and that is what Cap and Trade is. Wakeup, One world government is here and it is not based in Democracy or "one man one vote". It is based in "elitism and privilege" vs "fall in line and shut up."
Posted by: JonEAppleSeed | Dec 3, 2009 11:42:26 AM
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The problem is the average american has become spoiled with a credit fix way of life and have become accustomed to not having to work hard to get what they want. Another problem is people who control great wealth and its given to the family in the end just screw up that generation of kin. How many times have you seen a 16 year old driving a benz to high school? Its a struggle between the rich and poor in this country. Everyone wants the nice things but isn't willing to work like china to get it. Suck it up america and work hard.
Posted by: will | Dec 3, 2009 12:17:47 PM
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the price of our interventions around the globe has been staggering, both monetarily and socially. the polarization of the nation that has accompanied the nation's foreign strategies in the last decade brought this on. but shall the admin. respond? shall we focus on home and hearth and ignore foreign struggles? don't bet on it...
Posted by: patrick ryan killeen | Dec 3, 2009 12:18:34 PM
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Got news for one and all. Americans traditionally and historically have been isolationist. Leave us alone, King George III!
Posted by: John2010 | Dec 3, 2009 12:27:31 PM
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I think isolationism is an incorrect interpretation of America "minding its own business internationally." I am an American Expat living between Honduras and London, and I hardly feel like the US should withdraw from the rest of the world, but I do believe that America should let other countries make their own decisions. There's a big difference.
Posted by: David | Dec 3, 2009 1:04:29 PM
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JohnEappleseed....you got it half right. The path were set in the 1980's by Ronald Reagan, when the outsourcing and Deregulation began, the fall of our Auto companies, and the anger that continues today fueled by the Republicans to burst unions, so the American workers are at the will of the employers only. They threaten to leave the country if the policies weren't changed back then. (to pay what they please, without benefits or healthcare) Why do you think the Minimum Wage was an issue? Why do you think Hough, American Motors, Johnson Motors, Sara Lee and all of the such companies only has a fraction of their companies remaining in America? (tax breaks) These were the jobs that built this country with Middle Class Hands! In my late 50's, I REMEMBER when, how and who! The point...Ronald Reagan enacted laws and policies to create 2 class of people in America....Rich and Poor. Now that's Socialism! Now isn't that's how China is ran. Except, they did have a plan to keep their "minions" with minimum wage jobs. INSTEAD OF USING THE WORD "SOCIALIST" TRY "TRICKLED-DOWN"(DOWN, DOWN, DOWN)> SOCIALISM IS BEEN BEAT INTO YOUR BRAIN BY THE REPUBLICANS TO TAKE THE FOCUS OFF THEM, THAT CREATED THIS MESS BY THEIR HERO...RONALD REAGAN. STOP BEING STUPID!
Posted by: sara | Dec 3, 2009 1:11:52 PM
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Education in China is VALUED for all. Even Cuba educate their own..even they know that a Strong Country depends on education and wealth....Not just Military Might! Now we can barely maintain that monetarily. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING! TAX CUTS TO THE Wealthiest Americans can't hold up the REMAINING 99%. THEY STOP CREATING JOBS AND POCKET THEIR WEALTH AND HIDE IT OVERSEAS IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. NOW THE SYSTEM THAT WERE CREATED IN THE 1980'S THAT WE SEE THE END RESULT TODAY WERE DUMB, DUMB, DUMB!
Posted by: sara | Dec 3, 2009 1:18:39 PM
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Poor Sara with her quote "isn't this how China is ran" shows why industry does not want to be here. Our education system is pathetic because we cater to bring a "minimal education" to everyone. Without a highly skilled and highly educated population we are doomed. In the manual labor market with all our laws, minimum wage, benefits, etc. we cannot compete.
Posted by: JACK | Dec 3, 2009 1:40:25 PM
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Right on sara.
I just don’t understand how Republican voodoo math works. A pathetic 5 Million new jobs were created over the past 8 years. And don’t forget this recession began in 2007, right after almost a decade of supply side tax cuts and financial deregulation.
Today millions of the middle class live paycheck to paycheck, frightened that a medical problem or a layoff will destroy a lifetime of work.
One in eight Americans is on food stamps.
Over 120,000 families are filing for bankruptcy EVERY month.
And, $5 Trillion has disappeared from middle class pensions and savings.
Back in the 60s, America’s middle class income jumped 33% (adjusted for inflation) – but during the booming 2000s, families gained a teensy 1.6% income increase.
So what happened to all our nation's wealth? Take a close look at the financial industry that is supposed to serve us. For decades this industry has reaped Billions selling new fangled credit, inventing “fees”, and gambling with products like “swaps”. When their shady practices helped trigger our current financial crisis, the financial industry came to Washington for a handout, paid for by the peons. And now their powerful lobbies want to preserve the rules that got us into this mess.
Anyone who howls that new government banking regulations means “socialism” has been duped.
Posted by: CenterOne | Dec 3, 2009 1:58:42 PM |
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