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Originally Posted by busterb
tw. I just pointed CAFTA out as one of the many fuckups in the game. Not as the main cause.
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"Fuckups" occur when government assumes it can fix trade. Fuckups - a US tire industry that was so anti-American as to run to the government to keep the 1948 radial tire out of America until Michelin finally shattered those government restrictions in 1975. That's right. Anti-American trade restrictions kept the radial tire out of America for 28 years. So tarrifs and trade restrictions must be good? If you oppose CAFTA, then you also endorse what kept the radial tire out of America.
Meanwhile, numerous paraplegics and quadriplegics exist in America because those same anti-American tire companies were so technically ignorant as to make radial tires that failed prematurely - often with human injury. Patriots remember WHY the Firestone 500 was killing Americans - including a run to the Supreme Court to have the facts quashed.
Did elimination of government tariffs cause all those deaths? Only the naive would say so - just like anyone would blame CAFTA for the resulting problems. Those deaths occurred because anti-American tire companies ran to government for trade restrictions rather than fix their management.
BTW, name major American tire companies? Most got sold to foreigners because government protected of those companies. Names like Uniroyal, Firestone, Goodrich, etc all had to be sold because of government protection. Only Goodyear remained American.
Same applies to CAFTA. If CAFTA causes American job losses, then reread the previously long post to appreciate free market economics. CAFTA and other tariffs eliminations are long overdue. Elimination of US government subsidizes - such as 50% subsidy of US Sugar - is also long overdue. If US Sugar enters bankruptcy, then good. Bankruptcy eliminates the only reason why US jobs are lost - defective top management.
Those who 'Buy American' are classic anti-Americans. Patriots believe in the free market - buy the best. Patriots saved both Ford and Chrysler by buying superior foreign products. Therefore Chrysler replaced the reasons for their problem - replaced Townsend and Richardo with Lee Iacocca. Ford replaces the anti-American Henry Ford with Don Petersen. These lessons of history contradict much of what is taught in the business schools - where there is plenty of mythical blame to go around.
Innovations in T-shirt technology - where was it applied? In the US where management was brainwashed by MBA school concepts of cost controls? Then no wonder the industry had to move overseas. I should not have to mention a major innovation in T shirts. If you have knowledge of economics, you can cite a major innovation in T shirts. I leave it to you to cite a major T shirt innovation.
'Buy American' or 'Buy the best'? Which one are you. The patriot? Or one who concepts found in communism?
Meanwhile CAFTA is a problem to American industries whose bosses were anti-American; anti-innovation; typically graduates and disciples of business schools. Either we force those pathetic industries to near bankruptcy so as to fix their only problem - top management. Or we protect those anti-American companies with more tariffs.