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2020-03-13 Home Front: Culture Wars

Will the Coronavirus Kill the New World Order?

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-13 04:31|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 In retrospect, was it wise to have relied on China to produce essential parts for the supply chains of goods vital to our national security?

Wise? Yes of course, if you wish to exploit cheap labor for massive profits and gain.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-13 05:15|| 2020-03-13 05:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Was it wise? Of course not. But our elites made a killing off it. That's why we did it.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-03-13 06:05|| 2020-03-13 06:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Once again...

If you have progressive rent-seeking taxes on incomes and sales, these act exactly like internal tariffs.

Countries with lower costs such as China will import jobs from the progressive economy.

You can only have free trade between countries if you FIRST have free trade IN BOTH countries.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-03-13 06:46|| 2020-03-13 06:46|| Front Page Top

#4 @Herb McCoy

Yep the "elites" (of narcissism) maximised the amount of rent-seeking in the west so they thought they could be even greedier if they got trade and migration subsidised.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-03-13 06:52|| 2020-03-13 06:52|| Front Page Top

#5 NWO and their thousand points of light.

Corona Virus

C = 3
V = 22

322 is the calling card of Skull and Bones. AKA Brotherhood of Death.

Posted by mossomo 2020-03-13 09:44|| 2020-03-13 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 We have never really had free trade. it's an ideal, a goal, but politicians being what they are someone always tries to game the system.

Having said that is sort of common sense to not put all your eggs in one basket and that's what far too many did regarding China as a manufacturing source.

And global plane travel and borders and such, well we've been in denial about a lot of things since Sept 11. That's what happens when you listen to people that actually hate everything about your culture.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-03-13 09:46|| 2020-03-13 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Distributed systems are robust.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-13 10:55|| 2020-03-13 10:55|| Front Page Top

#8 China Hints At Denying Americans Life-Saving Coronavirus Drugs

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-13 11:16|| 2020-03-13 11:16|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ Just posted that

Posted by Frank G 2020-03-13 11:18|| 2020-03-13 11:18|| Front Page Top

#10 😎

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-13 11:20|| 2020-03-13 11:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Some adjustments need to be made. If coronavirus is the catalyst for change then maybe it's a good thing.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-13 11:36|| 2020-03-13 11:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Why should only the left benefit from crises?

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-13 12:00|| 2020-03-13 12:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Whatever happens with this administration, Trump has a place in history as the first president to call bullshit on, and put an end to, our insane 30-year policy of building up a global rival and creating an existential threat out of a corrupt Communist Party-led shithole.

Posted by Lex 2020-03-13 13:06|| 2020-03-13 13:06|| Front Page Top

#14 Agreed. And happening. Blew my mind when I learned almost all our vaccines are made in china. Makes me happy to see the shifting of supply chains and trade routes. That's a positive.

Posted by mossomo 2020-03-13 23:22|| 2020-03-13 23:22|| Front Page Top

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