[RedState] Because this is 2020 and the whole damn world seems to have gone insane overnight, we are now being told that referring to COVID-19 as anything related to China or the Chinese in any way is "racist" and xenophobic or some other bad thing. Even though this virus originated in China. Even though either their food choices or their government is responsible for unleashing this on the globe. It makes no sense, but none of this is making much sense right now. It certainly feels like we don't have all the information and that's worrisome given the level of response we've been seeing from our government. There is a lot that we, the people don't know.
But we do know one thing right about now. One thing is becoming more and more clear with each passing moment.
When this is all over we are f***ing done with China.
Seriously, no more messing around. No more cozying up to Chinese investors (I'm looking at you, Obama). No more handing over vital technology and information to the Chinese government (I'm looking at you, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton). No more back-end deals with Chinese security firms and tech providers (I'm looking at you, Joe Biden). No more Hollywood films made to please the Chinese investors (I'm looking at you, Matt Damon).
#3
If you mistakenly think there are no people in the USA to do manufacturing jobs, there are 600 million people south of the Rio Grande. Most underemployed and would love a manufacturing job (many that used to be there until lowest common denominator rush to China). Then Vietnam, India, ASEAN, Philippines, Bangladesh, Eastern Europe, Africa. Get the picture?
#4
#2 Hear, hear, maybe it's time to stop believing in mystical powers of a college diploma. The only powers it has, IMO, is flooding the industrialized world with supremely self-confident idiots. As well as making it almost impossible for genuine scholars and scientists to get academic tenure.
#6
We have what, 8 or 9 months to go until the next flu season, right? I bet we're going to be just fine once we're out of the woods here, in two to three weeks.
Then yes, the great reckoning needs to happen, good and hard as they say.
#7
Bring back vocational education. Two tracks: college for maybe 25%, max, of the 17- or 18 year old population and serious, well-designed and properly-funded trade schools for the rest.
Get employers to kick in $$ for it by offering to waive payroll taxes if they commit to hire a significant number of grads.
In parallel, get illegal immigration down to zero by finishing the wall, continuing to remake the judiciary, lawfare agaivst "sanctuary" madness etc. And crack down hard on the H1B scam while you're at it.
If Trump uses the bully pulpit to make a big push for the above, he'll do another great deed for this nation. And maybe increase his electoral appeal by November in MI PA WI.
#8
A college diploma never had any value in and of itself. The value came from the type of people who would delay gratification and/or work their way through. Just as with home ownership, it was the inherent personality traits that are important.
But socialists searched for 'markers of the middle class' and cheerfully imagined that bestowing those same markers would automatically expand the middle class and make them ever grateful to the almighty state. Thus the expansion in M.A.'s in puppetry.
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We have already seen businesses opening in countries around China due to the trade wars and that trend has been accelerating.
I also expect to see a rise in more nationalism around the globe as countries realize they can't make critical things in their own borders and some tax breaks and such will be applied for that manufacturing to come home.
#12
I would like to see more people like Mike Rowe advising the president.
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#13
Pretend to be environmentalists and pass a law that says you can't have access to US markets if x percent of your product was made in a nation on the known polluters list.
Then create the list and watch China scramble to clean up their pollution while maintaining their super-cheap manufacturing.
Also include food born illnesses as one of the reasons for pollution if they do somehow manage to clean up their smoke belching factories.
It'd be really hard for lefties to argue against it. They'd try racism but that won't fly after the virus and the global warming hoax has been screamed about for years.Hoist them on their own petard.
A rather simplistic answer for an astute, learned thinker. These yuuge box stores are not your friend, they never have been. Their strategy is a bit different than that of Heinz-Georg Baus and his impressive Bauhaus chain. Regrettably, my exposure is a bit dated, but you will likely not find much Chinese junk in his stores.
#15
Chinese stuff can go from great to junk. Many people have had only access to certain technology: robots, smartphones, drones, amateur mills and many other mechanical, tech stuff due to Chinese companies.
While instead many US companies run away from individuals and prefer to sell to Gov and other companies.
#17
The big-box model is (was?) based on relentlessly lower wages for the working and middle classes. Lowest wages + lowest prices + lowest quality.
The alternative means people ran more, save more, and buy less stuff but much higher quality stuff. Less consumerism and stronger families and communities; better health; a better culture overall.
#22
We put factories and jobs in Mexico and every Mexican who gets one of those jobs will be one less Mexican who wants to come here.
Besides that, Thorong, people might get wise to University if they're offered a good paying job right now as an alternative to crushing debt and a possible job with unknown pay at some unknown time in the future.
Bottom line is: We need to end this unhealthy relationship with China before the cost of constant lockdowns exceeds the profits.
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They sell what YOU buy
Whenever I can find an alternative, even if it's more expensive, I buy it. I buy American whenever I can but lately I've been finding a lot of alternatives made in India or Vietnam. I had to shop around for it but I recently bought a chainsaw made in Germany that was a lot more expensive than the cheapo Made in China types at Home Depot. That's what you call "sales resistance". Home Depot can sit on that unsold inventory until they get wise. Maybe I'm unusual but I think Trump would be just the guy to start a national conversation on this topic.
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Re #7. If I had it to do all over again Id'a been an electrician. I wound up with all the skills but the high school guidance counselor insisted I do what was good for her numbers. 4 years of college and two years in a field related to my training I wound up in IT. That's a dead end now. Most of what electricians do never will be.
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It is irrelevant what you buy, what matters is are the products that Americans make competitive in world market?
Currently technology already have in general 6 months in advance for Asia.
The problem is not the Chinese, the problem is you, or me and the incentives and rewards in our culture.
Our culture rewards paper pushers, community advisers etc etc... basically media-academia bullshit.
Then we have the typical shame of manual work on top of it. It is not just shame of going there it is the presumption that if you work with your hands you deserve much less regardless of the market needs. I usually laugh to everyone here saying that if everyone wants to go to University then who remains to clean bathrooms should get millionaire wage. Everyone looks at me like if i am an alien.
[al-Monitor] The coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic is dominating the news in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... today, steering public attention away from Idlib, Syria, where Ankara is increasingly caught between a rock and a hard place.
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F'n knew it from the headline. Joke website. Not literally a joke. But a$$hat beltway clowns. Not cia clowns, but the ones who get degrees and write about stuff with 5000 miles of separation btwn them and actual events. We appear Arab so we must be.
5min dive into the webs found:
Al Monitor is a new media platform dedicated to in-depth coverage and analysis of the Middle East. HQ: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Al Monitor has 2 current team members:
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Simon Ayat (additionally this dude is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Schlumberger LLC - international oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs approximately 100,000 people).
And Jamal Daniel CEO (who is cracker white).
I always find these people project, here's a headline al-Monitor rain Dec '19. Middle East lobbyists pay op-ed writers to sell their message.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[RedState] Because this is 2020 and the whole damn world seems to have gone insane overnight, we are now being told that referring to COVID-19 as anything related to China or the Chinese in any way is "racist" and xenophobic or some other bad thing. Even though this virus originated in China. Even though either their food choices or their government is responsible for unleashing this on the globe. It makes no sense, but none of this is making much sense right now. It certainly feels like we don't have all the information and that's worrisome given the level of response we've been seeing from our government. There is a lot that we, the people don't know.
