"American workers got what they deserved"

[gimpy117]

A nice article from a local paper, just about 60 miles from here. Nice city.

but anyways, Poignant information. Might be more of a statement, but what he says still has truth to it.

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/opini...-they-deserved

[August]

Originally Posted by gimpy117

but what she says still has truth to it.

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/opini...-they-deserved

Ray Buursma is a he not a she.

and

Yet you continue to elect leaders who offer nothing but tax cuts, as if that would stem the flow of disappearing jobs.

Apples and oranges. Withholding those tax cuts would not have prevented those jobs from moving overseas.

[gimpy117]

Originally Posted by August

Ray Buursma is a he not a she.

and

wow august...i have a typo and you go for the jugular. you went from 0-kill it with fire pretty darn fast

also, fixed

[August]

Originally Posted by gimpy117

wow august...i have a typo and you go for the jugular. you went from 0-kill it with fire pretty darn fast

also, fixed

Typo? The S is nowhere near the H on my keyboard but then again i'm a greedy evil conservative. Your liberal keyboards are probably laid out differently.

I'd be far more interested in reading your response to the rest of my post however.

Would higher taxes have saved any of those jobs as the author implies?

[Growler]

Originally Posted by August

Would higher taxes have saved any of those jobs as the author implies?

Higher taxes save jobs?

No wonder we've been doing it wrong.

[gimpy117]

Originally Posted by August

Would higher taxes have saved any of those jobs as the author implies?

if they were tariffs and duties yes

[Skybird]

I hear a brother-in-soul complaining in that article, it reminds me of what I have written in the past about establishments and keeping their self-tailored rules alive by constantly pledging loyalty to them and voting for them even when voting for a different party - the system they live by you nevertheless legitimise by parcticipating in it - the vote actually have given, is almost not important.

It is also about egoism and short-sightedness. Just today or yesterday a major German newspaper published the findings of a study that revealed that although most Germans expressed stellar distrust into the euro and the EU and expect that their pensions will suffer dramatically and that before they reach that age their social security payments will explode - they refuse to see the link between that and the state'S debts and social payment burdens, and their own unlimited expectation that the state nevertheless should nruse and care for the citizen, almost without limits. The expectations towards thje state are still limitless, nbody thinks about consequences to be drawn, nobody sees the links between the higher outcome, and his individual demands - and his personal tolerance for any obviously malfunctioning system that additionally does its best to kill itself.

Beotonov is right, what the article says in principal is nothing limited to Americans, but describes basic mechanism at work in Europe as well. It is something international, not something American.

[August]

Originally Posted by gimpy117

if they were tariffs and duties yes

That's debatable but the author wasn't talking about tariffs and duties.

[Betonov]

This is international, not just american.
Try living in a former communist state, when everyone thinks the goverment will provide like it did 30 years ago.