lol Yeah, that's it. How stupid we were to reject the one global treaty that was actually going to be to our advantage!
Sometimes I wonder if people are actually stupid enough to believe things like this.
lol Yeah, that's it. How stupid we were to reject the one global treaty that was actually going to be to our advantage!I don't think that's true at all. The TPP was partly designed to thwart Chinese influence in the region by strengthening economic ties. Instead, we've scrapped that and are in the process of tearing down our global soft power. It's only natural that China will step into that vacuum to push their own interests.
I think China actually will take over the world. There are two ascendant forces in the world today, Islam and Communist China. India is stagnating, or at least not growing in global power. America and Europe are ashamed to claim that our cultures and civilizations are as good, let alone better than others. I think the final conflict is going to be China versus Islam. Of the two, I prefer China. I much prefer an authoritarian government focused on productivity and law to waving my butt in the air five times a day and stoning heretics. If nothing else, the video games will be a lot better.China won't "take over the world." But its influence is surely growing. The are essentially doing the things the US did for the last 70 years. Finance and help build dams, factories, mines, infrastructure in other countries all around the world. The changes really started happening after tiananmen square when China made an unofficial pact with its citizens to behave and they'll allow a more western version of capitalism.
You funny boy. Trump is extremely wealthy - his words - and yet almost none of his own high priced merchandise is made in America. Even his "Make America Great Again" hats are only assembled in America of imported parts.Well, with the stock market going up and up and the GDP climbing to 3%, combined with Trump's endeavor on jobs and Make America Great Again. I really don't see how a currency manipulator of a slave labor-based country can compete. Especially when we start making our own shit for a change and increasing our exports. I for one, and I'm sure Trump is in agreement, don't want to see that big F U! of Made In China anymore.
The only thing China is good at is generating greenhouse gas, making cheap knock off products and stealing intellectual property for their own benefit. For all intents and purposes, China can keep skinning their dogs and eat a bag of dragon dicks.
You funny boy. Trump is extremely wealthy - his words - and yet almost none of his own high priced merchandise is made in America. Even his "Make America Great Again" hats are only assembled in America of imported parts.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-made-in-america_us_596f9be6e4b01696c6a24918
Sure you can make things here. You just have to be willing to settle for higher costs, and therefore lower profit. Clothing is one category still practical to produce in the USA - IFF you are willing to accept lower profit.And that's the crime of it all. You almost can't make anything here. My mom is in a doll sculpting community with famous doll sculptors. Some of them have their dolls reproduced (reborn) in vinyl. You can go with an American company, but it will cost you. Your only choice is China.
As far as Tiananmen Square, I work with a delightful Chinese immigrant. Her cousins (20s and 30s) back in the mainland don't have the vaguest clue what is Tiananmen Square. It simply never happened for them. One thing they absolutely do know however is you don't talk bad about communism or the government, for it's always listening.
And that's the crime of it all. You almost can't make anything here. My mom is in a doll sculpting community with famous doll sculptors. Some of them have their dolls reproduced (reborn) in vinyl. You can go with an American company, but it will cost you. Your only choice is China.
Well, with the stock market going up and up and the GDP climbing to 3%, combined with Trump's endeavor on jobs and Make America Great Again. I really don't see how a currency manipulator of a slave labor-based country can compete. Especially when we start making our own shit for a change and increasing our exports. I for one, and I'm sure Trump is in agreement, don't want to see that big F U! of Made In China anymore.
The only thing China is good at is generating greenhouse gas, making cheap knock off products and stealing intellectual property for their own benefit. For all intents and purposes, China can keep skinning their dogs and eat a bag of dragon dicks.
True, but look at where we are today relative to even just a short few decades ago. I look at pictures of NY, Los Angeles and London from before the dawn of environmentalism, and it is terrifying to think what air quality used to be.You make it sound like the US stopped polluting the environment as well. There's all sorts of nasty stuff; Pine Ridge is still radioactive as fuck due to cowboy corporations letting uranium leak into the environment unabated, Picher is still a disgusting hellhole, the Flint water debacle, etc. etc.
Yea, I saw his comment above and thought he forgot the /s at the end.I don't think that's true at all. The TPP was partly designed to thwart Chinese influence in the region by strengthening economic ties. Instead, we've scrapped that and are in the process of tearing down our global soft power. It's only natural that China will step into that vacuum to push their own interests.
We need to bring outsourced Chinese pollution to Republican areas. Because their obesity, opioids, HIV, and voting to destroy the health care system is not getting the job done.True, but look at where we are today relative to even just a short few decades ago. I look at pictures of NY, Los Angeles and London from before the dawn of environmentalism, and it is terrifying to think what air quality used to be.
Even still, I used to joke to my friends back east that I knew what season it was in CA by whether or not I could see the mountains.
Even if we shift entirely from fossil fuels, industry created some very nasty byproducts.
All we did was outsource our pollution, and as you stated, there are still some nasty things getting dumped on American soil and in American water.
Very progressive. We need more thought leaders like you.We need to bring outsourced Chinese pollution to Republican areas. Because their obesity, opioids, HIV, and voting to destroy the health care system is not getting the job done.
Very progressive. We need more thought leaders like you.
Will you stand by the sidelines in a cheerleader outfit and pom poms as we cart away the bodies?
We no longer have much of the infrastructure needed to make the goods to trade. That infrastructure could be rebuilt and upgraded but, corporate America will insure that doesn't happen. Trump and the rest of the government is simply along for the ride while doing their best to line their pockets.Buncha maroons. The Chinese govt has taken their country from poverty to relative affluence in 40 years.
How did they do that? Trade. Their products penetrate every market in the world.
In the meanwhile, our version of trickle down economics has taken the broad middle class to the woodshed. We can probably MAGA our way into being even poorer if we're only willing to believe...
Political parties of any stripe had very little to do with it. Corporate America are the ones responsible.It's by design. GOP destroyed American manufacturing to destroy labor unions.
That's not true. Corporate America acts in a political reality.Political parties of any stripe had very little to do with it. Corporate America are the ones responsible.
Political parties of any stripe had very little to do with it. Corporate America are the ones responsible.
You've got that exactly backwards. Corporate America creates the money which fuels everything. Politicians create no money.That's not true. Corporate America acts in a political reality.