- Enact laws and policies to preserve and encourage investment in domestic industry. Certain strategic industries should be protected, especially those related to national defense.
So even those the US has always had an economy based on the best man w/the best idea at the best price wins (look at Henry Ford for example), we should change that because the best man is no longer an American? Gov't should not swoop in to help ailing companies. They should FIX what they are doing wrong, not complain and look for a handout.
- Penalize imports that are not manufactured under the same constraints as those made here. Those slave labor camps in China churning out sneakers do not meet our standards for an honest wage rate, environmental laws, etc.
Have you been to China to see this or are you basing this on what others tell you? I've been to China recently and toured factories. It's not slave labor. No one is forced to work. Conditions are not inhumane. Certainly no worse than they were here in the US only 50 years ago. Give China a break, they are trying as fast as they can to catch up w/the west without imploding like Russia did. It's called managed growth. And what's w/ "honest wage"? Who determines that? You? Me? Pat B.? The US gained economic might by EXPLOITING workers here for a looong time. I'm not a huge fan of hypocracy.
- Re-evaluate trade policies of other nations like Japan to levelize the playing field, especially in the automotive industry.
Um..most of the "Japanese" cars sold in the US are made right here, in the US by US workers. Shut 'em down! We don't need no stinkin' Japs making cars here! :rolleyes:
- Restrict the exportation of domestically developed technology that may give other countries a manufacturing edge. This is one reason how many foreign companies are able to make goods of reasonable quality - at our expense.
If you can show me how to do that without impinging on anyone's freedoms, I'd be shocked. If we created and have this "technology" how can it be an "edge" if others have it? Did we forget how it works? Edge implies an upper hand or advantage.
- Change the attitude short-sighted, self-gain motivated corporate America and our so-called leaders. How? I got some very good ideas!
Now there is an idea worth getting behind! I'd love for the business leaders to stop worring about their next quarterly report and think where is the company going to be in the next 5-10 years. Short sighted thinking and getting caught up in economic frenzy for short term gains has resulted in what look to be long term problems.
And I'm spent..
