Re: the quiet revolution


"RickyBobby" <nascar42@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You make some very salient points there about economic and political
theory.

A 1968 Plymouth Road Runner was a much better car to own and drive than a
2008 Chevrolet Cobalt.

That is a matter of opinion and personal taste. I certainly (largely because
of 'era') would prefer the Road Runner - but trust me, society is developing
a taste for Cobalt_like product.

This country has gone downhill in the last forty years mainly led by the
Wharton School alumni.

I liken it moreso to Wiemar_like, as opposed to Wharton_like.

When you export basic industry you are not eliminating the environmental
footprint. You are actually multiplying the environmental impact by
sending your heavy industry to countries with lax or no environmental
safeguards.

Present day 'environmental politics' also allow us to BUY carbon credits
(i.e accomplishing nothing wrt a theorized GLOBAL problem)

In America we can make our own steel, our own cars, our own clothes, and
our own shoes.

Most definitely !!!! But the greed of corporate America, whilst calling it
'good business practice', saw greater fortunes by moving production lock,
stock and barrel to 3rd world countries.


We are overbuilt with a Star Bucks at every third stoplight and a Home
Depot or Circuit City or Best Buy at every other stoplight. Those eight
dollar per hour service jobs are not going to pay off a mortgage and put
two or three kids through college.

Absolutely correct !!! There are economists out there who are speculating
that children of today (American) are born with inherited $100,000 to
$200,000 debt loads (i.e. costs incurred by present generations which will
have to be paid by today's youth during their working years). All this
because we inflated our STANDARD of living, .... all the while ignoring the
warning flags associated with a quality of living sacrifice.


I hope Obama is wise enough to see what has happened to this country over
the past forty years

I believe BOTH candidates are smart enough to see it .............. having
the wisdom to correct is another story !

and will use his powers of office to bring back steel
mills and textile miles and shoe factories. And maybe our car makers
would see this wisdom of bolting and welding cars together in America to
sell to Americans.

The 'government' monies (keeping in mind the source of that said money_pot)
invested in corporate America in the last few weeks could almost accomplish
that, I suspect. These bail_outs are (unless they apply seriously stringent
protocols) bandaids ....... avoiding the inevitable,which is "REDUCE
STANDARD OF LIVING" (in order to improve on quality).


Same for the textile industry and the furniture industry and the phone
answering industry.

I would be willing to bet that most of this eight dollar help in these
little jobs would be more than happy to be twenty-eight dollar help in a
real job if those real jobs were to become available.

No question about it. The (now) sub_STANDARD (there's that word again !!)
minimum wage legislation is nowadays as useless as the paper it's documented
on. People would starve to death working for minimum wage. What we must do
is eliminate these $500,000.00 annual salaries for this sector of society we
refer to as CEO's (and the like), and put real people back to work in the
country. This hording of wealth (in pockets of few) has become a monumental
problem.


We have been exporting American industry overseas for forty years and now
we see where that has gotten us. A much lesser economy and much greater
global environmental impact.

I'm not sold on the latter (because if you argue that we recoup all of this
industry back to home, we are simply relocating that environmental impact).
The economy statement is a given.




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