Trump just said he'd force Apple to make their damn computers in
America, and this raised a crib-howl from techies. You know, those
super-intelligent "humanitarian progressives" who somehow finesse the
fact that their cherished gizmos are manufactured in foreign factories
where the workers are virtual slaves.
Techies: "Slaves? Just the cost of doing business. We still love everybody."
For the moment, to avoid ad hominem arguments, let's forget that Trump
made the remark; and let's also forget that truly free markets don't
exist on a macro scale.
Here is the obvious knock-you-in-the-face truth: you can't have a level
playing field if you allow US companies to go abroad, set up factories
in places where their costs are minimal, and export those products back
to the US. That kind of operation destroys companies who are making the
same products in America, at much higher costs.
This isn't economics. You don't need algorithms to figure it out. You
don't need experts to weigh in with their fatuous bloviations. Anybody
with three active brain cells can see the truth.
Here is the bottom line: free markets, to the degree they exist, were
never designed for international trade. They were designed for national
economies.
In order to make international trade work, you have (you had) tariffs. A
company abroad, no matter who owns it, can only ship goods into the US
for sale if it pays a big fat tax to level the field.
But then it all changed: no-tariff free trade entered the scene. This
was the invention of Globalists, whose ambition was to "liberate
mega-corporations" from any and all reasonable obligations, so they
could roam the world minus any allegiance to their home countries, and
basically act as predators.
This is GATT, the WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA, the upcoming TPP, and so on. Treaties.
Let's say there are 50 companies in the US who make sneakers here. The
average cost of a pair is $2. That's the manufacturing cost. Four of
these companies shut their plants in the US and go to China, where they
make a pair for 16 cents. They bring all those sneakers back here for
sale. What happens to the other 46 American companies who are still
making their sneakers here? Get the correct answer and you earn an A in
Globalism 101.
The free market wasn't designed for this kind of commerce.
If you're a double-talking scuzz-bucket Globalist, you argue: "But you
see, people in the US can now buy cheaper sneakers. This is wonderful.
It offsets the fact that lots of workers in the US who used to make
sneakers are out of work. Those people can be retrained for other
jobs..."
If that were true, we would see, on balance, a prospering US economy.
But despite Obama's assurances, we don't. We see more and more people
out of work, or working at part-time low paying jobs. We see more
people on digital food stamps (SNAP, EBT). We see some of the 1.5
million Mexican corn farmers, who were bankrupted by NAFTA, which
allowed cheap US corn to flood the Mexican market, coming across the
border into the US.
Remember, Globalism doesn't recognize the existence of separate
nations. Here is what Zbigniew Brzezinski, David Rockefeller's chief
butler, and Obama's foreign policy mentor, wrote on that subject in
1969:
"The nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has
ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and
multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far
in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state."
Yes, "far in advance," if by that you mean "in order to destroy separate nations."
Replacing nations, you have elite banks with their invented money, you
have financiers, you have mega-corporations--- moving in and out of
places all over the world, setting up shop, and exporting goods anywhere
they choose to, minus tariffs. Nice work if you can get it, and they
can. Calling this capitalism or free market is more than a misnomer.
It's a purposeful deception. It's a long con. It's a betrayal.
And when the same Globalists talk about planned economies, constructed
to make the world a fairer and more equitable place, they're lying
again---because their beloved mega-corporations are the leading edge,
the prow of that ship. It's part of the hustle.
Imagine a guy on a street corner with a little folding table and three
shells and one pea. For a few bucks, you can guess which shell has the
pea under it, after he quickly moves the shells around. Except the
"you" in this equation is the world population, and the fee for guessing
is mega-trillions of dollars. Of course, the guess is always wrong,
and the guy with the shells and the pea is Mr. Global, and he always
wins. This is called Peace, Tranquility, Equality, Greatest Good for
the Greatest Number.
Of course, I'm just using the US as an example. The same facts apply to
any industrialized nation. The same facts apply to any Third World
nation where mega-corporations set up shop.
As long as you have nations who have a semblance of concern about their
survival, you don't have Globalism. Any claim that international trade,
minus tariffs, is proper and good and just is a bald faced lie.
It's setting lions loose to hunt mice in a sealed cage.
Free-market capitalism (aka the open exchange of goods and services for
money) was never designed to work on a global scale. Most free-market
advocates will never admit that.
You must have tariffs.
Globalists assure us that tariffs are pernicious obstructions to a free
and open economy. Translation: tariffs obstruct a world-slave economy
they want to control.
Yes, there is a downside in all this. If cell phones and computers for
Americans were only made in America, or if they were exported here with
added tariffs, they would be more expensive. But you have to weigh that
against the overall effect of Globalism: the ripping apart of the
American economy, with all its implications.
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