The hubris of this devil.
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The hubris of this devil.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero --
Damn white people, always oppressing others by being gainfully employed and $#@!
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We should just shut up and besubjugatedexterminated.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
It's not really Cato saying this. It's a speaker, who I don't think is affiliated with Cato, speaking at a Cato event.
I wouldn't be surprised to find a lot of anti-libertarian things said by Adam Posen, but the quote in the OP isn't one of them.
Ron PaulThere is nothing to fear from globalism, free trade and a single worldwide currency, but a globalism where free trade is competitively subsidized by each nation, a continuous trade war is dictated by the WTO, and the single currency is pure fiat, fear is justified. That type of globalism is destined to collapse into economic despair, inflationism and protectionism and managed by resurgent militant nationalism.
Congressional Record (March 13, 2001)
Ron PaulThere is nothing to fear from globalism, free trade and a single worldwide currency, but a globalism where free trade is competitively subsidized by each nation, a continuous trade war is dictated by the WTO, and the single currency is pure fiat, fear is justified. That type of globalism is destined to collapse into economic despair, inflationism and protectionism and managed by resurgent militant nationalism.
Congressional Record (March 13, 2001)
Ron PaulThere is nothing to fear from globalism, free trade and a single worldwide currency, but a globalism where free trade is competitively subsidized by each nation, a continuous trade war is dictated by the WTO, and the single currency is pure fiat, fear is justified. That type of globalism is destined to collapse into economic despair, inflationism and protectionism and managed by resurgent militant nationalism.
Congressional Record (March 13, 2001)
Don't you know a rhetorical question when you hear one?
Being invited to give a speech at an event is exactly the same thing in your mind as a three minute hostile cross examination? Since when?
You know CNN purports to be a news service, and to maintain that cover they must conduct interviews with somebody. You also know that none of these things are true of CATO.
Did the systematic, federal policy-driven gutting of domestic industry leave only white males truthfully making that claim?
You can sound as snidely arrogant as you want to about people who don't meet your arbitrary education threshold, but domestic manufacturing evened out the wealth distribution in this nation, required less carbon-belching transportation of goods worldwide, and Americans were once damned good at it.
Cato has always had an open mic type of policy where they will let anyone use their platform to say anything, which is asinine. Their minds are so open their brains are falling out. And yes Cato has gone libtard in recent years.
That being said the guy's point that domestic manufacturing is worshipped by people who don't know any better (his racism against white people aside), is pretty spot on. As an economy matures the idea is to shed the lower end work over to developing economies. Most people don't understand that, or care to. Higher end and precision / technical manufacturing (think tech stuff, pharmaceuticals, etc) is good, but the rest should be outsourced if possible simply for economic reasons.
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There are also plenty of sound reasons why "the idea" you mention is a bad idea economically, environmentally and otherwise. It's no more sound than the notion that developing "higher end" activities means agriculture should be abandoned in favor of frozen and canned imported food.
I think the wholly theoretical limitation of resources you two are using as justification is nothing but semi-intellectual mumbo jumbo of the exact type power-mongers use to justify the gutting of the middle class and the move toward socialist tyranny. The correct answer is, the market should make an unfettered decision as to where something is made. Anything else is mental masturbation at best, and at worst, a means to an end called slavery.
If resources are so limited in this country that participation in the one activity limits the other, the free market is a damned sight better qualified to decide what to do about it than you, Posen or anyone else.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
"lower end work"? Tell that to Tesla.
If America had kept its factories, and modernized them, America as a country would be far better off.
Cannibalizing your means of production for a short term discount on plastic lawn chairs is not "maturity". That's just idiocy.
- Kim KardashianIt's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!
My pronouns are he/him/his
I'm frequently reminded of the thread where several people on this board kept trying to call plastic lawn chairs "wealth".
True wealth comes from owning & leveraging means of production.
America basically sold its bitcoin mining rigs for a large box of assorted pastic dildos. (a "mature" decision, indeed)
- Kim KardashianIt's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!
My pronouns are he/him/his
Well, there is an element of fetishism in a lot of the political dialogue surrounding domestic production. However, the real reasons that manufacturing has been offshoring for decades have nothing to do with economics -- it's not "more economically efficient" to ship raw American lumber to China, have it fabricated into furniture components, packaged and shipped back to an American so they can assemble it in their living room. Nothing in that chain of events has even the first thing to do with economic efficiency. What it does have everything to do with is geopolitical strategy and the global alliance among the world's international political "elites" (who are headquartered in DC) to enslave the entire population of the world, starting with Americans first. If you can enslave America, you can easily enslave the rest of the world without any trouble. That is why all forms of work -- including the very white-collar jobs that were supposed to be replacing manufacturing jobs! -- is being shipped overseas. Americans really only have two choices: join the Beast World Order or be enslaved by it. The coming global war will not end in America, but it has already started here...
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