baseman posted:I agree [in principle] with some of what you say [not meaning your silly Rubio rant].
The US do need to understand why other nations export more than the US. I can tell you one reason, the US products are very American-centric and many products do not consider the reality of the foreign markets. I'm not talking military, commercial jets, drugs, etc, but more basic industrial and commercial products. They tend to be geared to the US market and US infrastructure reality.
Regarding the price to the US consumer of buying cheap, I don't think people understand the price to this society of having large swathes un/underemployed. The price is very high in terms of welfare, drug, crime and general decay and disenchantment within society.
What do you think is behind the Trump juggernaut? Don't blame Trump, don't blame the people, don't blame the victim!!! You of all, should understand this and what it means. You throw people under the bus due to race. Newt G was the best champion for prison reform, Trump is the best for blue-collar employment! You despise them cuz they are "White"!! Pastor Manning is correct about the likes of you!!
1. Your GOP refused to invest in infrastructure. Most gov'ts can give preference to local manufacturers and can do this while minimizing relation. But we don't invest, while our highways and bridges crumble (remember that infamous rush hour collapse in Minneapolis a few years back).
2. Germany provides free, or almost free tertiary level training. The trade unions focus heavily on making their members more productive. Not just screaming more pay for less work, as US unions do.
The result is that US workers are uneducated and unproductive, and therefore unable to compete at levels, based on the wages that they demand. Bernie, Trump and Cruz will create more work for robotics. But then Germans, Japanese and Chinese will need to be imported, as US workers are too uneducated to be involved in this.
Germany competes because their highly trained and highly skilled work force focus on high end goods, which are beyond the ability of low wages countries to engage in. The USA cannot because it doesn't invest in its workforce.
Don't scream welfare because our social support structures in the USA are 3rd world. Daily I see evidence of families reduced to begging because their welfare benefits have run out, and they lack the skills to get the jobs which are available.
A trip to dying towns in the South and the Midwest will show you that it isn't just blacks who have fallen into this trap. In fact the new "inner city" are the small former factory/mining towns in these regions. Filled with crime, drug abuse and family dysfunction, all along the lines of what began to occur in the larger cities in the early 60s.