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2020-04-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

George W. Bush Center: More Globalization Is the Answer to Coronavirus Crisis

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-18 00:24|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Gerbilism is near death. Hopefully urbanism will occupy the next grave over.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-18 02:19|| 2020-04-18 02:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I suppose there are trade-offs. Do Americans want cheaper products or more expensive ones? What's the average Chinese worker make compared to [unionized] workers here? Do regulations serve as an obstacle? Tax code? Lots of questions.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-18 06:38|| 2020-04-18 06:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Buy less. Buy better stuff. I'm no union fan, but slave labor doesn't tickle me either. Taxes suck but better it is collected and spent here than there.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-18 06:47|| 2020-04-18 06:47|| Front Page Top

#4 And watch the portfolios of those fat cats expand.

I voted for Bush because of the choices but man he has turned into a real asshole on this stuff.
I figure Pope Frank is all on board with this.

What, exactly, is this problem that will be solved by turning most of America into a 3rd world shit-hole while the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas and their rich friends get richer and more powerful?

I expect to hear these scum suckers coming out in favor of the UN income tax any day now.

Posted by AlanC 2020-04-18 08:42|| 2020-04-18 08:42|| Front Page Top

#5 In Washington, Mr. Rooney was on loan to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to create a high-level private sector advisory body for the Summits of the Americas, working closely with the U.S. private sector and with companies and business associations from throughout the Americas to negotiate an agenda to promote economic integration in the region. Previously, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary responsible for relations with Canada and Mexico and for regional economic policy.
Get the picture?

Posted by b 2020-04-18 09:06|| 2020-04-18 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 And that is just another example of these statists (Bush, Clinton, Obama) being two sides of the same coin. They can GTFOH and ram that UN tax up their respective culos.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-18 09:10|| 2020-04-18 09:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Globalism has pushed us towards cheaper, disposable, products. The Environmentalists should be pissed about it. But they were never serious anyway.environmentalism was always a scam to sugar-coat communism anyway.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-04-18 09:56|| 2020-04-18 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 I've got nothing inherently against "globalism" from an economic standpoint. I'm all for the free flow of goods and services. But, we do not have a free market (remember NAFTA and its hundreds and hundreds of pages?), and that is one of the problems.

The US, IMO, has a screwed up tax code a constantly changing one, especially depending on who rules Capitol Hill. I should think it is tough for businesses to make long-range plans when they never know what the next Congress might pull.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-18 10:02|| 2020-04-18 10:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Globalism where all production concentrated in one, totalitarian, country?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-18 10:06|| 2020-04-18 10:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Less stuff & better stuff indeed ... stuff built to last, as opposed to the planned-obsolescence Chinese-made crap

Posted by Lex 2020-04-18 11:04|| 2020-04-18 11:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Globalism where all production concentrated in one, totalitarian, country?

And who's fault is that? And, if they can do it cheaper and better, then who cares? Some would argue that patents and copyrights are restraints to free trade. Without those, who knows how much cheaper products (to include pharmaceuticals) would be. It's no wonder Big Pharma fights like trapped rats over patent protection and hate generics (like HCQ).

And why does the US treat Cuba so differently if PRC is so totalitarian? (Well, Chinese can travel, there is that.)

Posted by Clem 2020-04-18 11:18|| 2020-04-18 11:18|| Front Page Top

#12 And, if they can do it cheaper and better, then who cares?

As long as everyone plays nice, it's all groovy! But as soon as someone decides to use their sole supplier status of $SOMETHING_IMPORTANT as leverage, then it sucks to be you.

Posted by SteveS 2020-04-18 11:40|| 2020-04-18 11:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Indeed. But there's the element of piss-poor planning as well. When everybody is fat and happy, nobody cares. Until....

Posted by Clem 2020-04-18 11:42|| 2020-04-18 11:42|| Front Page Top

#14 This is why Jeb got his ass kicked in 2016.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-18 13:06|| 2020-04-18 13:06|| Front Page Top

#15 I also believe the country had had enough of the Bush clan.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-18 13:08|| 2020-04-18 13:08|| Front Page Top

#16 Enough of the Bushes and the Clintons. Two sides of the same bad penny.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-18 13:37|| 2020-04-18 13:37|| Front Page Top

#17 Obviously, in the ongoing crisis, our top priority must be the health and safety of our families, our neighbors, and our national community.

Nice throat-clearing.

But when the crisis is over, and we have defeated the virus and people are back at work and we are all able to go out for dinner again, we must be ready to come together around a new strategy for globalization that secures its benefits and cures its ills.

Translation: "Once the emergency has passed, let's go back to doing what caused the problem in the first place.God forbid we'd learn any actual lessons from this."

Followed by more throat-clearing about "a new strategy for globalization that secures its benefits and cures its ills."

Posted by charger 2020-04-18 13:49|| 2020-04-18 13:49|| Front Page Top

#18 House of Bush = our very own royal-Bourbon family:
"They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing"

Posted by Lex 2020-04-18 13:54|| 2020-04-18 13:54|| Front Page Top

#19 Of the 3.4 million U.S. jobs lost in that time period, about 2.6 million were lost in the manufacturing industry

Each manufacturing job supports 3-5 other jobs. That's why entire cities and regions were gutted by moving manufacturing to China.

Posted by Bubba Claing1437 2020-04-18 16:04|| 2020-04-18 16:04|| Front Page Top

#20 Ucky blue collar people. They buy guns and go to church. Have kids. Has to be stopped...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-18 18:16|| 2020-04-18 18:16|| Front Page Top

#21 Well, since Barbara died, I think Georgie, Laura, the kids, a few cousins and Max Boot and Evan McMuffin still love the Boosh fambly...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-18 18:20|| 2020-04-18 18:20|| Front Page Top

#22 a new strategy for globalization that secures its benefits and cures its ills."

Tell us more about the "cures its ills" part, Uncle Matthew. Globalization is all about flow. But not just goods, capital and labor. You also get crime, drugs, jihadis and the odd pandemic. People get all giddy over the good stuff - Woo Woo! We're making money! - and pretend the negatives don't exist. So by all means, let's talk about curing those ills.

Posted by SteveS 2020-04-18 21:44|| 2020-04-18 21:44|| Front Page Top

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