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Still obsessed with the Euro? Not sure why I should expect otherwise...bringing up Saddam and the Iraq Euro fad from back in '02. This isn't 2002. The Euro isn't doing jack. The Ruble is now the #1 competitor with the dollar long term. Read up, son.
Euro isn't doing jack because we took necessary steps to take Saddam out with a clear message to OPEC. So don't support Russia.
Sure, I care...why do you think he's so cozy with the Russians? But he's not powerful enough to mean anything...and he really is just a crazy small time nothing that pisses off the US because he can...
But who do we get oil from?
...and who's dumping the dollar at the fastest rate? Who is getting in with the Russians to open up a ruble oil-trade?
And how does that change anything if you bought a used Suby?
They had a "negative" effect in the sense that they reused to take a minimum wage for high-level work. The reason the auto industry "died" is because labor in less industrialized nations is insanely cheap. If there was no union at all, the US manufacturers would have still been unable to compete with the sweat shop an ocean away. Why would they work for $10/hour working in hellish conditions when they could make twice that in the service industry as an insurance salesman?
Do Toyota and Honda workers in the US work for $10 per hour? Didn't think so.
Yeah.."artificially." They made a product and bargained. They have power. As soon as the American worker grows a pair, they run off and pay very, very poor workers **** for their labor. And if it was that big of a deal, they could just not hire the union. But guess what...American labor is more expensive, period. Non-union manufacturing jobs have gone away, too. A union is not some magical evil death-knoll to American manufacturing. The existence of third world labor that works for 1/20th the price is. It's all fluid, anyway. I could just as easily say that the American workers get a fair wage and it's the third-world labor that artificially lowers the wage.
So should you thank foreign auto makers who set up shop in the US with US workers?
I can complain about wealth stratification here, but in China it's disgusting. They need unions and wage reform over there like crazy. They are being exploited. If we had balls, we'd cut off trade to them until they reformed both economic and human rights issues...but we don't...we like our little fiat gravy train too much, right?
Cut off trade with China? LMAO. This will give them more reasons to cozy up with the Russians! Good going Mikey.
That's not a black vs. white concept...making a "take your pick" question out of the subject is incredibly shallow and short-sigthed. If you want to bury your head in the sand, feel free. But crazy old Stalin was right. The capitalists will sell you the rope you hang them with. It's basically our economy over the last 30 years in a nutshell.
Nope... you use "That's just capitalism" statement but when the real capitalism affects the US, you cry foul.
Like I said, assembled in the US...parts from multiple countries. Learn to read, oh wise genius.
Go look at your VIZIO and see where it was assembled and see if it says "Made in Taiwan." That sounds like assembled overseas with parts from multiple countries. Genius.
Yeah, ok...back in the real world, that's not realistic. Your entire logic for anything relies on over-the-top hyperbole and black vs. white logic with no shades of gray as an option. How the hell can you support US companies when foreign manufacturers have a monopoly on the market? It's a weak-ass "gotcha" argument you are trying to turn into a slippery-slope argument. No, if I try to support US companies above foreign companies, it does not mean I can't use things that US manufacturers do not produce.
Hey...true nationalist would still use Zenith tube TV with a digital converter. That's love for America.
