Beautifully said, Good Citizen Dusty00! As a former combat veteran, I stand against this mindless Nazi-sounding drivel to support the foreign invaders of Iraq, or any other country, for that matter. To have the unmitigated gall, or abject ignorance and stupidity, to suggest that the invading and occupying forces of America (American-financed mercenaries included)have nothing to do with the ongoing, horrendous violence in Iraq after the Busheviks invaded, destroyed their infrastructure, caused massive and continuing unemployment by shutting down former government-run industries, and bringing in transnational (Halliburton, et al.) corporations which only - or predominantly - hire foreign nationals (sounds kind of like Amerika, don't it?) and the citizens there have little or no social order at all is indistinguishable from insanity....
As much as I want to believe aliens are among us, it just doesn't make sense that a civilization advanced enough to cross interstellar space would crash in New Mexico. And the chances of aliens being humanoid in appearance are close to zero.
Citizen Bombula, you make a number of nonsensical assertions bearing no relation to logical thought whatsoever. (1) Assumption: their planet of origin has the same exact climatological patterns as Earth, i.e., one billion volt-lightning strike could have conceivably hampered the navigation systems, (2) Assumption: their crash was of accidental nature - perhaps these two alien craft were playing/fighting amongst themselves and went too far, resulting in a collision, (3) Assumption: why, of all places, crash in New Mexico? While I am unfamiliar with their food styles at the time, one might assume these alien visitors were true taco aficionados, burrito lovers to the max, or just plain liked the ambiance there. (4) Assumption: the chances for their humanoid appearance. This assertion is clearly the most nonsensical as that particular model interstellar spacecraft they were flying was clearly designed for humanoids. Geez Louise, already!!!
On a more semi-serious note: having served in the USAF during that Vietnam Unwar, I wouldn't trust the USAF on any of their press releases during those years, and can state unequivocally, for the the record, that when I had access to such data, American military pilots were reporting positive bogey sigthings about once every three months during that time period (lower atmosphere sightings usually reported smaller vehicles resembling a lateral-travelling teardrop shape --- just outside of atmosphere sightings - more rare - suggested one Godawful super-sized spacecraft - around one-mile in length - which I'm guessing was the mother ship - or perhaps, mother of all ships......)
Whoooo, dood, has Fox Security really gotten to you. An official/. spokesperson, PR type for Bill - the shill - O'Reilly. I'd better be careful what I say, after all, even though he's never served in the military, Bill claims to be a combat vet!!! Ooooooh...aaaah...
If you'd heard that phony clown over the long run, you'd know he's just know jumping off the ship - like the rat he is - or jumping aboard the proper vessel -- either way, it's waaaay tooo little, and waaay tooo late. KEither Olbermann rules, and O'Really's ratings are plummeting faster than Dick Cheney's unit after being confronted by Ann Coulter......Can't talk any further, Billy boy's just killed my mike....
The problem is that "net neutrality" sounds so techie and confusing, and the majority of Americans have no idea what the issue is, nor do they care.
Wait, damn you! Maligning the American masses again, are we? Yup, it's always those dummies fault!
Now, just because 53% of Americans polled believe the Cosmos was created only 6,000 years ago, and 49% accept the official 9/11/01 story, and 51% believe the "lone gunman" theory behind the JFK assassination, and 52% believe Bush is the messiah....
Ooohh...wait...you're right! THEY ARE ALL a bunch of certified nitwits....
Voting with your wallet isn't democracy, it's oligarchy.
Well said, Great Citizen LGagnon, well said! Today, most certainly in America, in order to get any news one must financially support the bloggers - nothing wrong with that on the face of it, but once upon a time we could at lease partially rely upon the TV news broadcasts and local city newspapers --- that hasn't been the case for quite some time.
Therefore, we pay for the news. The same with every possible service today which we once received on the tax payer dime. Problem is, we're still paying those taxes - in one form or another - for these services which can no longer be utilized by thinking people. Pay for the news, pay for books with all those library deficiences, pay for more and more private schooling - pay far too much for "higher education" - then those same corps which have screwed up everything bring in foreign replacement workers - or offshore those once-American jobs - and college grads and advanced types are stuck with those "higher education" exorbitant loan costs, etc., etc., etc.
By that logic you could say that Croquet is actually a Neanderthal invention. Now, for those trivia freaks out there, who invented Extreme Croquet?????
The candidates are ALWAYS pre-chosen - simulations unnecessary: look for Guiliani/Thompson (the one with the underage wifey) on the Right, and Clinton/Richardson on the Near-Right....
I hate to be the spoilsport here, but the US military has been permanently out of the loop for quite some time now. The extremely poor performance of special ops, heavily relied upon by this administration to take the place of intel ops and the CIA, etc., along with absolute lack of any actual strategy & tactics in Iraq from start to finish (stating this objectively as I was against that illegal invasion/occupation from the get-go!).
The only thing I'm wondering about their alternate reality - does it report that rogue CIA/corporate elements were responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy (assuming it was ACTUALLY INVESTIGATED in tha alternate reality)?
Did that alternate reality actually have a full investigation of the events surrounding 9/11/01 attacks? Or did that alternate reality ALSO HAVE the FBI's Elite Passport Recovery Team - you know, the ones who miraculously recovered Mohammed Atta's passport from the WTC wreckage.....
Because the obvious step is to incorporate RFID technology in said National ID card - which allows tracking by the extraordinary number of private companies now part of the Security Complex of the Bush administration. Everytime you pass by a scanner someplace - they will pick you up - would you trust this government to have that capability??? Also, satellite telemetry is now up to tracking RFIDs with the proper ground-relay stations.....
Hmmm....could it possibly be what killed the bill is that it was written by the US Chamber of Commerce to benefit the corporations and transnationals??? IMHO, is all....
I would strongly suggest you read the recently declassified CIA documents ("Family Jewels") then read everything associated with their topics. That Mind Control program of theirs (1963 to 1973) involved many unknown victims and unwitting participants - say, for instance, citizens of San Francisco when the CIA released LSD spray - both aerially above the city - and within buildings at various parties. Also, one simply doesn't know the extent of the victims from all their various experiments with this program alone: there was that CIA analyst, a Mr. Olson, but we simply don't know how many Americans who served in the military during 1963 to 1973 were unwitting victims of that program.
Also, you would find one of the founding members of Delta Force (US Army Special Forces Detachment Delta), Eric Haney, strongly disagreeing with you....
I'm starting to wonder whether being a "powerful" country is such a good thing.
Outstanding point, Good Citizen pzs. Richard Bissell, a former director of plans for the CIA (and the brains behind the: Marshall Plan, the U-2 and SR-71 spy plane programs, the spy satellite program, Area 51, etc., etc.) did state in his autobiography that for a country to have a healthy economy it must have maximum investment (i.e., nonmilitary) in its infrastructure.
Nonsense. "The CIA" wasn't desperate to eliminate Castro, the U.S. government was, starting at the top.
Wrong, Andrew Tanenbaum!!! CIA Director Helms, testifying under oath before the Church Committee, did so state that the operation to assassinate Castro was a "rogue CIA operation."
Many hawks, extremists, and members of the Bush family wanted Castro gone (the Walker-Bush family had a number of operations which had been nationalized by Fidel). For a better understanding I would refer you to Kevin Phillips' excellent "American Dynasty" and also David Talbot's outstanding book on the JFK assassination which covers that testimony as well,"Brothers".
21st Century Reading List:
The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class Thom Hartmann, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
I'm afraid, citizen Sycraft-fu, by your statement:
It is somewhat surprising but in general the government takes the whole FOIA and declassification thing rather seriously.
you miss the mark. The "government" takes it so seriously they have recently ruled (in that same bill which nullfied posse comitatus rules) that the Pentagon is now completely exempt from the FOIA. Also, do to the wholesale "privatization" (actually piratization) of the government, there is very little, and altogether shrinking, information which can one day be declassifed as only the government is subject to the FOIA, not the private sector, (i.e., government contractors, etc.)
I suspect, if you've ever really traveled much around this planet, and bothered to learn the languages of the countries you visit, your attitude might be in for a major adjustment. Here's a perfect example:
When the Soviets rolled into Afghanistan, while it was clearly and blatantly wrong (and very reminiscent of what's going on in Iraq today), the Afghanis would have fared much better had the US left them alone (the Sovs were quelling religious extremist upheaval there, which they were afraid of and believed related to the Islamic revolution taking place in neighboring Iran at that time).
Instead, the Americans aided the worst, most criminal element of Afghanistan, the muhjadeen. Some or most of the wealthier members of Afghani society had fled when the Sovs invaded, but the first thing that vile muhjadeen did was to go on a killing spree of all the educated Afghanis and the members of the Afghani arts, leaving only the muhjadeen and religious extremists alive (with subsistence farmer/peasants in the hillside, of course). Never did anyone believe the US was their friend.....
You will find, historically speaking, this is the usual way things transpire - just look at every situation in South America when Henry Kissinger led the way in overthrowing democratically-elected governments, there, along with socialist and populist governments, in other words, economies equitable to the majority.
...and the inefficiencies of this particular administration, do you really believe that the CIA is some uber-power, starting wars, lying, and (most impressively) keeping the whole thing under wraps?
Holy Mother of God! Have you never read a book, never read any history whatsoever?? Evidently, not!
Aside from the rather obvious fact that all those "inefficiencies" of the Bush gang have earned them, and their cronies, billions upon billions of dollars, I would strongly suggest you read the autobiography of a former Director of Plans of the CIA, Richard Bissell, a brilliant - and not particularly conscience-driven, fellow who was the brain behind the Marshall Plan, the U-2 program and then the SR-71 (A-12) program, spy satellites, the overthrow of the democratically-elected Guatemalan government, and Area 51, of course (and that's just what we are aware of). Many believe he was also the planner behind the JFK assassination, and rightfully so.
Should you actually read a book, you may learn something.....
21st Century Reading List:
The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class Thom Hartmann, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal [and on the JFK assassination, David Talbot's "Brothers" and joanmellen.net]
..at least the ones I know pretty well, really do have service to the nation as a prime motivation.
You make an excellent point, Red Flayer, after all, the CIA was running a successful (while it exsited) counter-proliferation operation, Brewster Jennings, until Cheney chose to shut it down by outing Ms. Plame. Next, Cheney chose to give a speech stating that the US faces certain nuclear attack from terrorists.
Seems like Cheney was having trouble smuggling those nukes or dirty bombs and needed to find a way to stop the opposition. (See reports of nuke smuggling in the 'stans, Cheney's former Halliburton area of operations.)
You'll have to read David Talbot's book, "Brothers" in order to find those (a truly awesome, exhaustively researched book - unlike that pathetic crapola full of omissions and errors from Bugliosi). Massive props to Mr. Talbot.
They are finding someone to do the same job cheaper than we are willing to. We don't have a divine right to jobs just because we are Americans. Let 'em in. If they do the job just as well at half the price then the whole country will be better off.
Eff'ing A, dood, open up those borders completely (although they almost are completely open now, thanks to sock puppet Bushie failing to secure the borders) --- let everyone come in and overrun your town. And all that trash and litter and crime that's generated - whoopee frigging deal. And all those people camping out on your doorstep, since even Americans can no longer find affordable places to live, whoopee friggin deal. And if your momma gets gangraped by 20 of the criminals who come in with the rest, whoopee frigging deal. Seriously, are you putting everyone on or are you really that frigging stupid and that frigging ignorant and simpleminded????? Just wondering.....
This is a very late post, Good Citizen Seumas, but please don't mistake it for anything other than absolute agreement and kudos (props) to you.
Today in America, we have the end result of MK-Ultra "perception management" research: absolutely contradictory brainwashing - all too quickly accepted by the masses.
We American workers are told we don't have enough educated people - so Americans should be laid off after training the less-educated and less-skilled foreign replacements. We Americans are told we don't have enough high school dropouts - so Americans should be replaced with illegal immigrants who can't read nor write and are lacking in at least a high school education. We Americans are told there are many Americans who refuse to do some jobs - so Americans are laid off by the corporations (Arkansas, Minnesota, Washington, et al.) and completely replaced by illegal/undocumented immigrants. We are told Americans refuse to apply for certain jobs - after lines and lines of Americans appear to be applying for those very same jobs. We have these phoney stealth books by Bugliosi on the Kennedy assassination (far too many ommissions, far too many errors) and Rossi's book on who "really runs America" extolling the Council on Foreign Relations, the Cato Institute and illegal immigrants and the falsehoods - as written by corporations - on the H1-B and other visa programs.
Many years ago, while awaiting being shipped off to combat in Vietnam, I read several books written by Taylor Caldwell and Upton Sinclair detailing exactly what is happening today - and they even completely nailed the exact time it would take place. They had attended these social get-togethers at a place I'd never heard of having to do with some group called the "Bilderburgers" - unfotunately, at that time, I thought they'd drank too much "conspiracy Kool Ade" - but it turns out they were just writing the truth......
That is the most ignorant, stupid and uneducated argument, and frequently heard on Fart News (or is that Fox News).
American consumers get cheap goods because they are manufactured in China. Should production be moved back to the States the prices would go up, which consumers might not like.
First, there are far too many examples (starting with the famous Nikes' example) of corporations who have offshored all those manufacturing - and now IT, medical, services, etc., jobs - and have kept prics exacly the same while giving far higher salaries and perks to their senior executive staff.
The best thing to do is to follow India's example and not legally allow any chains, such as Wal-Mart, to exist in their country. (You also ignore fundamental economics, and imply economics is an arrow as opposed to a loop structure, take too long to instruct you on these matters - suffice it to say, only the upper classes can any longer afford to purchase ANY products, which is why the Nordstroms and other high-end retailers have been doing so well the last few years.....)
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Beautifully said, Good Citizen Dusty00! As a former combat veteran, I stand against this mindless Nazi-sounding drivel to support the foreign invaders of Iraq, or any other country, for that matter. To have the unmitigated gall, or abject ignorance and stupidity, to suggest that the invading and occupying forces of America (American-financed mercenaries included)have nothing to do with the ongoing, horrendous violence in Iraq after the Busheviks invaded, destroyed their infrastructure, caused massive and continuing unemployment by shutting down former government-run industries, and bringing in transnational (Halliburton, et al.) corporations which only - or predominantly - hire foreign nationals (sounds kind of like Amerika, don't it?) and the citizens there have little or no social order at all is indistinguishable from insanity....
Citizen Bombula, you make a number of nonsensical assertions bearing no relation to logical thought whatsoever. (1) Assumption: their planet of origin has the same exact climatological patterns as Earth, i.e., one billion volt-lightning strike could have conceivably hampered the navigation systems, (2) Assumption: their crash was of accidental nature - perhaps these two alien craft were playing/fighting amongst themselves and went too far, resulting in a collision, (3) Assumption: why, of all places, crash in New Mexico? While I am unfamiliar with their food styles at the time, one might assume these alien visitors were true taco aficionados, burrito lovers to the max, or just plain liked the ambiance there. (4) Assumption: the chances for their humanoid appearance. This assertion is clearly the most nonsensical as that particular model interstellar spacecraft they were flying was clearly designed for humanoids. Geez Louise, already!!!
On a more semi-serious note: having served in the USAF during that Vietnam Unwar, I wouldn't trust the USAF on any of their press releases during those years, and can state unequivocally, for the the record, that when I had access to such data, American military pilots were reporting positive bogey sigthings about once every three months during that time period (lower atmosphere sightings usually reported smaller vehicles resembling a lateral-travelling teardrop shape --- just outside of atmosphere sightings - more rare - suggested one Godawful super-sized spacecraft - around one-mile in length - which I'm guessing was the mother ship - or perhaps, mother of all ships......)
Wrong again, as usual, sumdumass.
Please review the proper definition of corporation....and for your evening homework - read the US Constitution, the USA PATRIOT Act, the NSPD #51....
If you'd heard that phony clown over the long run, you'd know he's just know jumping off the ship - like the rat he is - or jumping aboard the proper vessel -- either way, it's waaaay tooo little, and waaay tooo late. KEither Olbermann rules, and O'Really's ratings are plummeting faster than Dick Cheney's unit after being confronted by Ann Coulter......Can't talk any further, Billy boy's just killed my mike....
Wait, damn you! Maligning the American masses again, are we? Yup, it's always those dummies fault!
Now, just because 53% of Americans polled believe the Cosmos was created only 6,000 years ago, and 49% accept the official 9/11/01 story, and 51% believe the "lone gunman" theory behind the JFK assassination, and 52% believe Bush is the messiah....
Ooohh...wait...you're right! THEY ARE ALL a bunch of certified nitwits....
Well said, Great Citizen LGagnon, well said! Today, most certainly in America, in order to get any news one must financially support the bloggers - nothing wrong with that on the face of it, but once upon a time we could at lease partially rely upon the TV news broadcasts and local city newspapers --- that hasn't been the case for quite some time.
Therefore, we pay for the news. The same with every possible service today which we once received on the tax payer dime. Problem is, we're still paying those taxes - in one form or another - for these services which can no longer be utilized by thinking people. Pay for the news, pay for books with all those library deficiences, pay for more and more private schooling - pay far too much for "higher education" - then those same corps which have screwed up everything bring in foreign replacement workers - or offshore those once-American jobs - and college grads and advanced types are stuck with those "higher education" exorbitant loan costs, etc., etc., etc.
By that logic you could say that Croquet is actually a Neanderthal invention. Now, for those trivia freaks out there, who invented Extreme Croquet?????
In the simulation, no one knows Soviet Russia, and no one welcomes the Overlord....
The candidates are ALWAYS pre-chosen - simulations unnecessary: look for Guiliani/Thompson (the one with the underage wifey) on the Right, and Clinton/Richardson on the Near-Right....
Hold it!@ You say you have an AI background and you don't even know that GO is a Japanese game! WTF!!!
Well...given the success of their previous models........
The only thing I'm wondering about their alternate reality - does it report that rogue CIA/corporate elements were responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy (assuming it was ACTUALLY INVESTIGATED in tha alternate reality)?
Did that alternate reality actually have a full investigation of the events surrounding 9/11/01 attacks? Or did that alternate reality ALSO HAVE the FBI's Elite Passport Recovery Team - you know, the ones who miraculously recovered Mohammed Atta's passport from the WTC wreckage.....
Because the obvious step is to incorporate RFID technology in said National ID card - which allows tracking by the extraordinary number of private companies now part of the Security Complex of the Bush administration. Everytime you pass by a scanner someplace - they will pick you up - would you trust this government to have that capability??? Also, satellite telemetry is now up to tracking RFIDs with the proper ground-relay stations.....
Viva Chavez!!!
Also, you would find one of the founding members of Delta Force (US Army Special Forces Detachment Delta), Eric Haney, strongly disagreeing with you....
Outstanding point, Good Citizen pzs. Richard Bissell, a former director of plans for the CIA (and the brains behind the: Marshall Plan, the U-2 and SR-71 spy plane programs, the spy satellite program, Area 51, etc., etc.) did state in his autobiography that for a country to have a healthy economy it must have maximum investment (i.e., nonmilitary) in its infrastructure.
Wrong, Andrew Tanenbaum!!! CIA Director Helms, testifying under oath before the Church Committee, did so state that the operation to assassinate Castro was a "rogue CIA operation."
Many hawks, extremists, and members of the Bush family wanted Castro gone (the Walker-Bush family had a number of operations which had been nationalized by Fidel). For a better understanding I would refer you to Kevin Phillips' excellent "American Dynasty" and also David Talbot's outstanding book on the JFK assassination which covers that testimony as well,"Brothers".
21st Century Reading List:
The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class Thom Hartmann, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
It is somewhat surprising but in general the government takes the whole FOIA and declassification thing rather seriously.
you miss the mark. The "government" takes it so seriously they have recently ruled (in that same bill which nullfied posse comitatus rules) that the Pentagon is now completely exempt from the FOIA. Also, do to the wholesale "privatization" (actually piratization) of the government, there is very little, and altogether shrinking, information which can one day be declassifed as only the government is subject to the FOIA, not the private sector, (i.e., government contractors, etc.)
When the Soviets rolled into Afghanistan, while it was clearly and blatantly wrong (and very reminiscent of what's going on in Iraq today), the Afghanis would have fared much better had the US left them alone (the Sovs were quelling religious extremist upheaval there, which they were afraid of and believed related to the Islamic revolution taking place in neighboring Iran at that time).
Instead, the Americans aided the worst, most criminal element of Afghanistan, the muhjadeen. Some or most of the wealthier members of Afghani society had fled when the Sovs invaded, but the first thing that vile muhjadeen did was to go on a killing spree of all the educated Afghanis and the members of the Afghani arts, leaving only the muhjadeen and religious extremists alive (with subsistence farmer/peasants in the hillside, of course). Never did anyone believe the US was their friend.....
You will find, historically speaking, this is the usual way things transpire - just look at every situation in South America when Henry Kissinger led the way in overthrowing democratically-elected governments, there, along with socialist and populist governments, in other words, economies equitable to the majority.
Holy Mother of God! Have you never read a book, never read any history whatsoever?? Evidently, not!
Aside from the rather obvious fact that all those "inefficiencies" of the Bush gang have earned them, and their cronies, billions upon billions of dollars, I would strongly suggest you read the autobiography of a former Director of Plans of the CIA, Richard Bissell, a brilliant - and not particularly conscience-driven, fellow who was the brain behind the Marshall Plan, the U-2 program and then the SR-71 (A-12) program, spy satellites, the overthrow of the democratically-elected Guatemalan government, and Area 51, of course (and that's just what we are aware of). Many believe he was also the planner behind the JFK assassination, and rightfully so.
Should you actually read a book, you may learn something.....
21st Century Reading List:
The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class Thom Hartmann, War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal [and on the JFK assassination, David Talbot's "Brothers" and joanmellen.net]
You make an excellent point, Red Flayer, after all, the CIA was running a successful (while it exsited) counter-proliferation operation, Brewster Jennings, until Cheney chose to shut it down by outing Ms. Plame. Next, Cheney chose to give a speech stating that the US faces certain nuclear attack from terrorists.
Seems like Cheney was having trouble smuggling those nukes or dirty bombs and needed to find a way to stop the opposition. (See reports of nuke smuggling in the 'stans, Cheney's former Halliburton area of operations.)
You'll have to read David Talbot's book, "Brothers" in order to find those (a truly awesome, exhaustively researched book - unlike that pathetic crapola full of omissions and errors from Bugliosi). Massive props to Mr. Talbot.
Eff'ing A, dood, open up those borders completely (although they almost are completely open now, thanks to sock puppet Bushie failing to secure the borders) --- let everyone come in and overrun your town. And all that trash and litter and crime that's generated - whoopee frigging deal. And all those people camping out on your doorstep, since even Americans can no longer find affordable places to live, whoopee friggin deal. And if your momma gets gangraped by 20 of the criminals who come in with the rest, whoopee frigging deal. Seriously, are you putting everyone on or are you really that frigging stupid and that frigging ignorant and simpleminded????? Just wondering.....
Today in America, we have the end result of MK-Ultra "perception management" research: absolutely contradictory brainwashing - all too quickly accepted by the masses.
We American workers are told we don't have enough educated people - so Americans should be laid off after training the less-educated and less-skilled foreign replacements. We Americans are told we don't have enough high school dropouts - so Americans should be replaced with illegal immigrants who can't read nor write and are lacking in at least a high school education. We Americans are told there are many Americans who refuse to do some jobs - so Americans are laid off by the corporations (Arkansas, Minnesota, Washington, et al.) and completely replaced by illegal/undocumented immigrants. We are told Americans refuse to apply for certain jobs - after lines and lines of Americans appear to be applying for those very same jobs. We have these phoney stealth books by Bugliosi on the Kennedy assassination (far too many ommissions, far too many errors) and Rossi's book on who "really runs America" extolling the Council on Foreign Relations, the Cato Institute and illegal immigrants and the falsehoods - as written by corporations - on the H1-B and other visa programs.
Many years ago, while awaiting being shipped off to combat in Vietnam, I read several books written by Taylor Caldwell and Upton Sinclair detailing exactly what is happening today - and they even completely nailed the exact time it would take place. They had attended these social get-togethers at a place I'd never heard of having to do with some group called the "Bilderburgers" - unfotunately, at that time, I thought they'd drank too much "conspiracy Kool Ade" - but it turns out they were just writing the truth......
American consumers get cheap goods because they are manufactured in China. Should production be moved back to the States the prices would go up, which consumers might not like.
First, there are far too many examples (starting with the famous Nikes' example) of corporations who have offshored all those manufacturing - and now IT, medical, services, etc., jobs - and have kept prics exacly the same while giving far higher salaries and perks to their senior executive staff.
The best thing to do is to follow India's example and not legally allow any chains, such as Wal-Mart, to exist in their country. (You also ignore fundamental economics, and imply economics is an arrow as opposed to a loop structure, take too long to instruct you on these matters - suffice it to say, only the upper classes can any longer afford to purchase ANY products, which is why the Nordstroms and other high-end retailers have been doing so well the last few years.....)