Of course, its Newsweek, the famous liberal rag, and yes, the intent here is trying to persuade doctors that foolishly supported Obama into believing that they will somehow gain in the new regime. They won't.
Have you ever been to Japan?!?!?! There are structures there thousands of years old! You REALLY need to stop typing now.
I was thinking that not too many houses survived the fire bombings. All told, 67 of the most populated Japanese cities were firebombed by the United States during World War II. This process basically involved two passes of bombing. First you dropped incendiaries into residential areas to start massive fires due to the use of really dry wood and paper construction. Then, you used other munitions to kill all the firefighters and responders. Basically the fires would spread out of control, and thousands of people would be killed. In fact, as much as everyone complains about the atomic bombs, the atomic bombs did not kill or destroy as much as the fire bombings did. For various reasons, both the Japanese and Americans are believe to have underestimated the casualties caused by firebombing, but the firebombing of Tokyo alone easily killed 100,000 people, wounded 1,000,000, and destroyed at least 250,000 homes.
It's easy for us in the west to ignore this, particularly in America, and I'm not saying that to say I regret what the United States did, because I don't.
But it is to say that an awful lot of Japan was destroyed and, after the war, the Japanese had to come up with homes for a lot of people and in a hurry, and in doing so enshrined some building practices that persist to this day.
"Foreigners in Japan renting apartments on their own often face discrimination from real estate agents or landlords who refuse to rent to foreigners. Some agents will explain to foreigners directly that it is difficult to rent to them. Finding a guarantor is also difficult for many foreigners."
IF that's not a cultural predisposition to imported goods, then what is?
Well, the postwar reconstruction is actually the reason for Japanese housing being what it is. They built the country back up in a hurry as while the UK got some bombing damage from the Germans, it was nothing like the incendiary missions run by, well, the USA and towards the end, we thank you, with help from our British allies. So, they had a lot of homeless people and had to rebuild in a hurry. From there, the need to keep a lot of people employed sorta fed into the construction economy, and now that construction industry has quite a bit of political pull.
So, as much as I soured on free trade, now I'm starting to think, there's a huge opportunity to export houses to Japan. It's almost like their construction industry has some of the culture that our automotive industry has had. I bet there's a way to sell houses to those people. I mean, come on, everyone used to say in Detroit that the Japanese had no shot because Americans liked to have to buy new cars every three years and enjoyed working on them. I'd be willing to bet that central heat and central air would sell if you could control the room. But you couldn't just go in all US made. You would have to leverage the perceived longevity of US housing design but in a country that takes pride in its electronics and tools, you'd have to find a Japanese partner(s) to work with. I mean, even if you could crate it up in the USA, you'd have to say that it works with some Sony home control system, would be hauled to the site by a special Toyota tractor, and was already set to go with NTT phone hookups. You could make a mint, if you could go in gracefully, I think.
So yeah, I've argued myself into a circle. You probably could export to Japan, but you'd have to do it with houses. But, its not that crazy. I mean, the Japanese are beating Detroit at exporting cars to the USA and they have 0 natural anything to make steel with, and the USA is sitting on top of a mountain of iron ore and coal to make steel with.
Or perhaps he's not bigoted but simply lives in Southern California, where construction quality is an absolute joke, especially for new housing
Actually, its the opposite. California just has a huge amount of pressure because it was booming in population for so long. But I've been to LA and yeah, a lot of it was pretty rough looking stuff.
See, I live in the northeast where you still have construction companies that are family owned and have been in business for quite a long time. I owned a McMansion for about eight years and found it to be rather well built. The advantage was that I had it built and so if there were problems, I could get things sorted out before the drywall went up.
Still, I wanted something smaller, cashed out and am renting a 75 year old brick house with a kick fireplace and real hardwood floors. This is a neighborhood where down the street from me are a number of stone houses that were built around 1900 or so for managers at the then up and coming DuPont. Those things are beautiful.
So, yeah, I'd love to try a Japanese built house. Built to last only 30 years you say? That would be an improvement over the one we're living in now.
You need to move the East Coast or at least to the midwest. I'd recommend the "old burbs" of any major American city and find yourself a 75 year old or older house that has been modernized. I'd bet the charm and character of the place would win you over.
and as it turns out lawyers are absolutely worthless when it comes to getting anything results when it comes to "small" jobs like this.
Yeah, pretty much if you buy a brand new house, once you get the mortgage, there's really not anything you can do to get it fixed after the fact. In Delaware, Capano is famous for screwing people like that. Granted, they make a beautiful house but if something goes wrong, they bail completely after they get your money. You really do have to know the builder and the track record. Blenheim is a good builder and they actually bring some California design elements into their work but without all the crap. A really good builder is also AP Orleans. They were actually founded by a guy who survived the holocaust and came to America, started out building really good houses.
In the U.S. homes are built to last 30 to 40 years (the average lifetime of a roof in a temperate climate).
Yeah, but its not really -that- much money to throw a new roof on a house, and that's actually only for the midrange houses. And, if you want to pay for it, you can get much, much longer lasting roofs if you want to pay for the upfront costs of it.
And, the thing is, there's a lot of 100 year old houses in America, and quite a few houses in the 70 year range and up.
How'd this get modded up? The GP was saying you can't export houses. Which should be pretty fucking obvious. And he gets modded up for being offtopic?
What can't you export houses? I mean, theoretically, you could prefab them so they lay in flat sections, and assemble them overseas. The Japanese are very good at exporting all the pieces of a car for assembly in some other country. There's no reason the same could not be done for houses, which I think are simpler devices. I mean, if you wanted to build a house for export to Japan, you could load up a ship with all the prefab parts, understand their culture and have some design options and amenities that they don't necessarily have, partner with a local supplier for the electronics, and even market it as using Japanese tools, and you'd be off to the races. I rather think that the Japanese consumer might be as ready for an American style house that lasts longer and hold their value more just as much as Americans were, well ready for cars that last longer and hold their value more.
I'd take a Japanese-built house over an American-built one any day.
See, there is a cultural bias! That would prove my point. I mean, American houses are built larger, last longer, have central heat and central air, larger bathrooms, working bathtubs, often have fireplaces, features which Japanese houses tend to lack, and you want the Japanese house, because you are a bigot. Like I said, there is a cultural bias there and that's why we can't have free trade.
The problem with newspapers is that the content sucks. Putting together a few writers and photographers doesn't do anything more. Any idiot with a blog can do that. If you want to sell a newspaper, you need to have something that is useful and has the capital costs sufficient to throw off enough competition and allow you some rent taking. The business is about content, and the internet is just a delivery mechanism for it. Even Slashdot succeeds partially because half of us look at it, and could envision something better, but its good and big and risky enough to keep us from doing so, at least for now.
Bad example. Japan doesn't want anyone (U.S. or otherwise) entering their country at will and damaging their domestic industries. You know, like we let them do to us. I know you want to show that there's a specific bias against U.S. products, but you'll have to do better than that
Alright, that's a fair observation. It's an anti-foreign thing. I can buy that. That's weird thing for Americans to grasp, as acceptance of foreign is so entrenched that I've been to dinner with people bitching about Japanese cars and Mexicans, as they drive their Toyotas and order burritos, corn chips and salsa. In America everything is foreign.
You were wrong when you identified a trade barrier as a cultural one, now you're trying to avoid responsibility for making unsubstantiated assertions.
Can you identify for me the date when US and Japanese trade will be balanced? See, that's the problem, you can't. And in fact, trade with them has been in deficit for 40 years, and I'd venture to say that, they have no desire to trade equally. Otherwise, it would have been accomplished.
Just when's trade going to be balanced? Please, let's have a date.
wtf bullshit... do a google search? you do a google search, and then give us links; don't just make unfounded claims.
Look, if you don't know how to use Google, then, I really don't need to rationalize anything for you, do I?
IF there is one achilles heel in the Japanese domestic market that Americans have a good brand name in, its housing. For all of its other good points, Japanese housing sucks compared to American housing. You would think an American company could export a house to Japan.
Why do people persist in propagating the myth that there's cultural opposition to US products? Apple absolutely dominates the MP3 category with the iPod here, and the Macbooks sell like gangbusters.
US cars don't sell well because a) they don't sell well in the US either b) half of the overseas models don't even come in RHD versions. Of course they don't sell.
I won't consider an iPhone for all the reasons others have listed. Why would I intentionally saddle myself with a phone that has fewer features - ALOT fewer - than my current Softbank model? A model that's 1.5 years old now?
Why do people persist in propagating the myth that there's cultural opposition to US products?
Because its not a myth. By and large, it is easy to bring goods into the USA because the USA has a tradition of a generally free trading country. Do a google and see what's involved into bringing goods from the USA into Japan, and then see what's involved in vice versa. If they wanted to bring in more competition and other goods, you'd see those doors being opened. But they aren't.
The problem with electric cars is in the claim that you only need to commute 40 miles a day for a charge. That may be true, but in America, people also use their cars for the occasional family errands and during those days it is rather reasonable to drive much more than that in a day. Having a car limited by design to 40 miles is just not enough.
Tesla is a ponzi scam. Musk is just basically announced a new car and taking deposits on to fund the production of another car that he already has deposits on. His CFO quit when this decision was taken.
Four Intellivision games should be on top of the list.
Intellivision NBL Baseball and NFL Football.
Even now, people look at a system and ask, "what's the football look like", and the framing of that question was done none other by Mattel, who hired George Plimpton to essentially go on TV and say "Look at what the football looks like."
In doing so, Intellivision demonstrated that better graphics linked to sport games could move consoles, and secondly, opened the doors for major sports leagues to actually endorse games and created the major league licensed games that quite frankly still drive many console sales today.
Intellivision Sea Battle and Intellivision Utopia
Intellivision Sea Battle was arguably one of the first "add a unit to the board" war games. You could use the button controller to add several kinds of ships to a fleet in secret, adding an element of surprise that lacks in gaming today - due to the way controllers are. Once units moved close to each other, you flipped to a zoom in battle view.
Intellivision Utopia - is arguably the grandfather of all civ type games. You built up a little island economically, laying down food, housing and factories.
This uber notebook is a total redneck thing. AS a redneck, I'd like to say, that's why I like it. If they shipped it with a good buck knife and a DVD on hunting in the field, then we'd be styling.
But, you could take Union Carbide, Halliburton, Microsoft, and every other supposedly corporation you could think of that is "evil", and that would not compare even remotely to one day's worth of government evil and incompetence at the Somme.
There's a very famous quote by a member of one of the burned out communities. Basically, he was upset that they had been asking for years to have accumulated brush cleared, or even the right to clear brush near their homes, but this was blocked by environmentalists.
The moral is pretty simple. Environmentalists make choices that try to balance people and nature, and if you choose nature sometimes over people, sometimes people will die for it. This isn't the only time this has happened, or will happen. When we make energy more expensive, that means more people will freeze. When we make water more scarce, more people will go thirsty. When we give more land to the animals, there is less land for farming, and so people will go hungry. If you make things more expensive, as green practices do, you make people poorer. That's just the way it is.
More yet, if you protect your market, you make your people poorer
Can you give me a historically accurate example of that? Let's see, Asia's markets are protected, and they are building skyscrapers like crazy. USA's are not, and we have what?
Please don't support protectionist candidates. You'll make the outsourcing problem worse than it already is by voting for total boobs who want to jack up minimum wage and drive business out of the country with pseudo-communist anti-competitive policies.
I'm supporting protectionist candidates and I might well become one. I am going to take the Republican Party and turn it into an anti-globalization, protectionist regime and let the world understand that the people who condemn conservatives as the luddites are the very bankers and governments that want to sweep away all local traditions and customs in favor of some UN Mandated, EU Commission like body of arrogant bureacrats whose only concern for the so-called working man is a disdainful accounting of how much he can be used as a political chip.
If the socialist revolution that drives the left wing can be worldwide, then so too can the Republican Revolution. When we argue that Americans should drive their own cars, we will also reach out and argue that French should too, and Germans, and British. We will argue for a world where if you want to be a Pennsylvanian you can be one, and we will probably get the French on our side, by saying, that France should be French.
Oh come on, you're blowing this way out of proportion.
sorry, I'm watching two more American companies on the verge of going belly up, all in the name of this so-called free trade. I've heard all of these promises of free trade for 30 years, believed in it, and now its failing. I'm sick of it. Trade ideas, not goods.
If you protect your markets you destroy your exports
We don't have any exports relative to our imports.
Just like the Smoot-Holey Act in the 30's did your support of protectionism, if successful, will do far more damage to the economy than the banks have.
Even Milton Friedman argued that Smoot-Holey had nothing to do with the Great Depression. The GD was a monetary problem turned into an economic one. Indeed, if your argument were true, it would not explain how the United States went from an agrarian society to an economic manufacturing powerhouse in the 40 year span from the 1820s to the 1860s. Protectionism spawned the economic growth from farms to steel mills, won the civil war for the north, and then created the modern consumer society.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course, its Newsweek, the famous liberal rag, and yes, the intent here is trying to persuade doctors that foolishly supported Obama into believing that they will somehow gain in the new regime. They won't.
Have you ever been to Japan?!?!?! There are structures there thousands of years old! You REALLY need to stop typing now.
I was thinking that not too many houses survived the fire bombings. All told, 67 of the most populated Japanese cities were firebombed by the United States during World War II. This process basically involved two passes of bombing. First you dropped incendiaries into residential areas to start massive fires due to the use of really dry wood and paper construction. Then, you used other munitions to kill all the firefighters and responders. Basically the fires would spread out of control, and thousands of people would be killed. In fact, as much as everyone complains about the atomic bombs, the atomic bombs did not kill or destroy as much as the fire bombings did. For various reasons, both the Japanese and Americans are believe to have underestimated the casualties caused by firebombing, but the firebombing of Tokyo alone easily killed 100,000 people, wounded 1,000,000, and destroyed at least 250,000 homes.
It's easy for us in the west to ignore this, particularly in America, and I'm not saying that to say I regret what the United States did, because I don't.
But it is to say that an awful lot of Japan was destroyed and, after the war, the Japanese had to come up with homes for a lot of people and in a hurry, and in doing so enshrined some building practices that persist to this day.
Wikipedia
"Foreigners in Japan renting apartments on their own often face discrimination from real estate agents or landlords who refuse to rent to foreigners. Some agents will explain to foreigners directly that it is difficult to rent to them. Finding a guarantor is also difficult for many foreigners."
IF that's not a cultural predisposition to imported goods, then what is?
Well, the postwar reconstruction is actually the reason for Japanese housing being what it is. They built the country back up in a hurry as while the UK got some bombing damage from the Germans, it was nothing like the incendiary missions run by, well, the USA and towards the end, we thank you, with help from our British allies. So, they had a lot of homeless people and had to rebuild in a hurry. From there, the need to keep a lot of people employed sorta fed into the construction economy, and now that construction industry has quite a bit of political pull.
So, as much as I soured on free trade, now I'm starting to think, there's a huge opportunity to export houses to Japan. It's almost like their construction industry has some of the culture that our automotive industry has had. I bet there's a way to sell houses to those people. I mean, come on, everyone used to say in Detroit that the Japanese had no shot because Americans liked to have to buy new cars every three years and enjoyed working on them. I'd be willing to bet that central heat and central air would sell if you could control the room. But you couldn't just go in all US made. You would have to leverage the perceived longevity of US housing design but in a country that takes pride in its electronics and tools, you'd have to find a Japanese partner(s) to work with. I mean, even if you could crate it up in the USA, you'd have to say that it works with some Sony home control system, would be hauled to the site by a special Toyota tractor, and was already set to go with NTT phone hookups. You could make a mint, if you could go in gracefully, I think.
So yeah, I've argued myself into a circle. You probably could export to Japan, but you'd have to do it with houses. But, its not that crazy. I mean, the Japanese are beating Detroit at exporting cars to the USA and they have 0 natural anything to make steel with, and the USA is sitting on top of a mountain of iron ore and coal to make steel with.
Or perhaps he's not bigoted but simply lives in Southern California, where construction quality is an absolute joke, especially for new housing
Actually, its the opposite. California just has a huge amount of pressure because it was booming in population for so long. But I've been to LA and yeah, a lot of it was pretty rough looking stuff.
See, I live in the northeast where you still have construction companies that are family owned and have been in business for quite a long time. I owned a McMansion for about eight years and found it to be rather well built. The advantage was that I had it built and so if there were problems, I could get things sorted out before the drywall went up.
Still, I wanted something smaller, cashed out and am renting a 75 year old brick house with a kick fireplace and real hardwood floors. This is a neighborhood where down the street from me are a number of stone houses that were built around 1900 or so for managers at the then up and coming DuPont. Those things are beautiful.
So, yeah, I'd love to try a Japanese built house. Built to last only 30 years you say? That would be an improvement over the one we're living in now.
You need to move the East Coast or at least to the midwest. I'd recommend the "old burbs" of any major American city and find yourself a 75 year old or older house that has been modernized. I'd bet the charm and character of the place would win you over.
and as it turns out lawyers are absolutely worthless when it comes to getting anything results when it comes to "small" jobs like this.
Yeah, pretty much if you buy a brand new house, once you get the mortgage, there's really not anything you can do to get it fixed after the fact. In Delaware, Capano is famous for screwing people like that. Granted, they make a beautiful house but if something goes wrong, they bail completely after they get your money. You really do have to know the builder and the track record. Blenheim is a good builder and they actually bring some California design elements into their work but without all the crap. A really good builder is also AP Orleans. They were actually founded by a guy who survived the holocaust and came to America, started out building really good houses.
In the U.S. homes are built to last 30 to 40 years (the average lifetime of a roof in a temperate climate).
Yeah, but its not really -that- much money to throw a new roof on a house, and that's actually only for the midrange houses. And, if you want to pay for it, you can get much, much longer lasting roofs if you want to pay for the upfront costs of it.
And, the thing is, there's a lot of 100 year old houses in America, and quite a few houses in the 70 year range and up.
How'd this get modded up? The GP was saying you can't export houses. Which should be pretty fucking obvious. And he gets modded up for being offtopic?
What can't you export houses? I mean, theoretically, you could prefab them so they lay in flat sections, and assemble them overseas. The Japanese are very good at exporting all the pieces of a car for assembly in some other country. There's no reason the same could not be done for houses, which I think are simpler devices. I mean, if you wanted to build a house for export to Japan, you could load up a ship with all the prefab parts, understand their culture and have some design options and amenities that they don't necessarily have, partner with a local supplier for the electronics, and even market it as using Japanese tools, and you'd be off to the races. I rather think that the Japanese consumer might be as ready for an American style house that lasts longer and hold their value more just as much as Americans were, well ready for cars that last longer and hold their value more.
I'd take a Japanese-built house over an American-built one any day.
See, there is a cultural bias! That would prove my point. I mean, American houses are built larger, last longer, have central heat and central air, larger bathrooms, working bathtubs, often have fireplaces, features which Japanese houses tend to lack, and you want the Japanese house, because you are a bigot. Like I said, there is a cultural bias there and that's why we can't have free trade.
But you need to read on:
http://www.debito.org/?p=2111
In Japan houses are built to last 30 years, at most, and have generally no resale value. They are more consumer items, like cars are in the USA.
The problem with newspapers is that the content sucks. Putting together a few writers and photographers doesn't do anything more. Any idiot with a blog can do that. If you want to sell a newspaper, you need to have something that is useful and has the capital costs sufficient to throw off enough competition and allow you some rent taking. The business is about content, and the internet is just a delivery mechanism for it. Even Slashdot succeeds partially because half of us look at it, and could envision something better, but its good and big and risky enough to keep us from doing so, at least for now.
Bad example. Japan doesn't want anyone (U.S. or otherwise) entering their country at will and damaging their domestic industries. You know, like we let them do to us. I know you want to show that there's a specific bias against U.S. products, but you'll have to do better than that
Alright, that's a fair observation. It's an anti-foreign thing. I can buy that. That's weird thing for Americans to grasp, as acceptance of foreign is so entrenched that I've been to dinner with people bitching about Japanese cars and Mexicans, as they drive their Toyotas and order burritos, corn chips and salsa. In America everything is foreign.
You were wrong when you identified a trade barrier as a cultural one, now you're trying to avoid responsibility for making unsubstantiated assertions.
Can you identify for me the date when US and Japanese trade will be balanced? See, that's the problem, you can't. And in fact, trade with them has been in deficit for 40 years, and I'd venture to say that, they have no desire to trade equally. Otherwise, it would have been accomplished.
Just when's trade going to be balanced? Please, let's have a date.
Read and weep.
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/siry-departed-tesla-on-deposit-fraud-fears/
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/tesla-roadster/2251-refunds-roadster-deposit.html
wtf bullshit... do a google search? you do a google search, and then give us links; don't just make unfounded claims.
Look, if you don't know how to use Google, then, I really don't need to rationalize anything for you, do I?
IF there is one achilles heel in the Japanese domestic market that Americans have a good brand name in, its housing. For all of its other good points, Japanese housing sucks compared to American housing. You would think an American company could export a house to Japan.
Why do people persist in propagating the myth that there's cultural opposition to US products? Apple absolutely dominates the MP3 category with the iPod here, and the Macbooks sell like gangbusters.
US cars don't sell well because a) they don't sell well in the US either b) half of the overseas models don't even come in RHD versions. Of course they don't sell.
I won't consider an iPhone for all the reasons others have listed. Why would I intentionally saddle myself with a phone that has fewer features - ALOT fewer - than my current Softbank model? A model that's 1.5 years old now?
Why do people persist in propagating the myth that there's cultural opposition to US products?
Because its not a myth. By and large, it is easy to bring goods into the USA because the USA has a tradition of a generally free trading country. Do a google and see what's involved into bringing goods from the USA into Japan, and then see what's involved in vice versa. If they wanted to bring in more competition and other goods, you'd see those doors being opened. But they aren't.
The problem with electric cars is in the claim that you only need to commute 40 miles a day for a charge. That may be true, but in America, people also use their cars for the occasional family errands and during those days it is rather reasonable to drive much more than that in a day. Having a car limited by design to 40 miles is just not enough.
Tesla is a ponzi scam. Musk is just basically announced a new car and taking deposits on to fund the production of another car that he already has deposits on. His CFO quit when this decision was taken.
My hired help could also carry one of these!
http://www.overstock.com/Auto-Parts/1050-watt-4-stroke-Portable-Generator/3047812/product.html?cid=123620&fp=F&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=11183147
Four Intellivision games should be on top of the list.
Intellivision NBL Baseball and NFL Football.
Even now, people look at a system and ask, "what's the football look like", and the framing of that question was done none other by Mattel, who hired George Plimpton to essentially go on TV and say "Look at what the football looks like."
In doing so, Intellivision demonstrated that better graphics linked to sport games could move consoles, and secondly, opened the doors for major sports leagues to actually endorse games and created the major league licensed games that quite frankly still drive many console sales today.
Intellivision Sea Battle and Intellivision Utopia
Intellivision Sea Battle was arguably one of the first "add a unit to the board" war games. You could use the button controller to add several kinds of ships to a fleet in secret, adding an element of surprise that lacks in gaming today - due to the way controllers are. Once units moved close to each other, you flipped to a zoom in battle view.
Intellivision Utopia - is arguably the grandfather of all civ type games. You built up a little island economically, laying down food, housing and factories.
Wow, Lenovo made the computer equivalent of the big mac chicken patty sandwich.
http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/
This uber notebook is a total redneck thing. AS a redneck, I'd like to say, that's why I like it. If they shipped it with a good buck knife and a DVD on hunting in the field, then we'd be styling.
For six thousand bucks, I could buy myself a 16 way server, use it as a workstation, and pay someone to carry it around for me.
But, you could take Union Carbide, Halliburton, Microsoft, and every other supposedly corporation you could think of that is "evil", and that would not compare even remotely to one day's worth of government evil and incompetence at the Somme.
There's a very famous quote by a member of one of the burned out communities. Basically, he was upset that they had been asking for years to have accumulated brush cleared, or even the right to clear brush near their homes, but this was blocked by environmentalists.
The moral is pretty simple. Environmentalists make choices that try to balance people and nature, and if you choose nature sometimes over people, sometimes people will die for it. This isn't the only time this has happened, or will happen. When we make energy more expensive, that means more people will freeze. When we make water more scarce, more people will go thirsty. When we give more land to the animals, there is less land for farming, and so people will go hungry. If you make things more expensive, as green practices do, you make people poorer. That's just the way it is.
More yet, if you protect your market, you make your people poorer
Can you give me a historically accurate example of that? Let's see, Asia's markets are protected, and they are building skyscrapers like crazy. USA's are not, and we have what?
Please don't support protectionist candidates. You'll make the outsourcing problem worse than it already is by voting for total boobs who want to jack up minimum wage and drive business out of the country with pseudo-communist anti-competitive policies.
I'm supporting protectionist candidates and I might well become one. I am going to take the Republican Party and turn it into an anti-globalization, protectionist regime and let the world understand that the people who condemn conservatives as the luddites are the very bankers and governments that want to sweep away all local traditions and customs in favor of some UN Mandated, EU Commission like body of arrogant bureacrats whose only concern for the so-called working man is a disdainful accounting of how much he can be used as a political chip.
If the socialist revolution that drives the left wing can be worldwide, then so too can the Republican Revolution. When we argue that Americans should drive their own cars, we will also reach out and argue that French should too, and Germans, and British. We will argue for a world where if you want to be a Pennsylvanian you can be one, and we will probably get the French on our side, by saying, that France should be French.
No more RINO free traders!
Oh come on, you're blowing this way out of proportion.
sorry, I'm watching two more American companies on the verge of going belly up, all in the name of this so-called free trade. I've heard all of these promises of free trade for 30 years, believed in it, and now its failing. I'm sick of it. Trade ideas, not goods.
If you protect your markets you destroy your exports
We don't have any exports relative to our imports.
Just like the Smoot-Holey Act in the 30's did your support of protectionism, if successful, will do far more damage to the economy than the banks have.
Even Milton Friedman argued that Smoot-Holey had nothing to do with the Great Depression. The GD was a monetary problem turned into an economic one. Indeed, if your argument were true, it would not explain how the United States went from an agrarian society to an economic manufacturing powerhouse in the 40 year span from the 1820s to the 1860s. Protectionism spawned the economic growth from farms to steel mills, won the civil war for the north, and then created the modern consumer society.