RE: vote Donald trump!?
April 5, 2016 at 6:27 pm
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2016 at 6:31 pm by scoobysnack.)
(April 5, 2016 at 3:39 am)abaris Wrote:(April 5, 2016 at 3:31 am)Mathilda Wrote: It's called globalisation. The rest of the world has to put up with it too. Not least from Merkin corporations. Learn to live with it and stop whining.
Or vote in a socialist and get better employee rights.
That in itself won't resolve the problem either. But I can only be amazed at the economical ignorance displayed here, in this very thread. Trump isn't Superman to make American corporations stay. They will still migrate to greener pastured where workers rights are non existent and wages are as low as they get. Lowering taxes, as has been proven since Reagan, doesn't do shit, as long as other countries offer real opportunities for exploitation.
And, as opposed to individuals, migration for companies is easy. They are welcomed with open arms everywhere in the world. Penalize them for moving and apple or google become chinese or indian companies overnight. The larger they are, the easier it is for them to evade anything being thrown at them.
Don't get me wrong I don't think Trump is a miracle worker, or desire him to be dictator, but I'm hoping he will start to reverse the corruption. The key is creating incentives to move manufacturing back to the US, and development new technology. There is a fine line between punishing undesirable behavior and rewarding desirable behavior to get the desired actions. Yes business are in business to make a profit, sell their goods at the highest the market can bear, along with paying employees as little as the market can bear all with competition.
People should start voting with their purchases. Apple practically runs a slave factory, and has some of the best technology out there. Walmart has some of the most cheaply made products delivering super low prices forcing manufacturers to keep prices low at the same time. Somehow we need to stop the race to the bottom. Buy locally sourced goods to keep local businesses profitable, and the jobs staying in the community. Easier said then done I know.
Globalization is a long term goal, and as the world shrinks it's kind of inevitable, since we all share the same planet. However I personally choose nationalism especially after learning all the tricks globalists use at the higher levels to carry out this plan.
Nor does it alter the fact that even when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people, from maharajas to millionaires and from pukkha sahibs to pretty ladies, will hate the new world order, be rendered unhappy by frustration of their passions and ambitions through its advent and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to estimate its promise we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.
-- H G Wells
The New World Order (1940)
https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Well...rder-3.pdf