Did you see the huge crowds of protesters that flooded the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday? They were there to protest two bills there were being considered by the state legislature that would limit the power of unions in the state. Michigan lawmakers approved the bills and this absolutely infuriated the protesters. There is a lot of passion on both sides of this debate, but I am afraid that both sides in this debate are missing the bigger picture. If we keep shipping millions of our jobs to China, there isn’t going to be work for anyone no matter how much power unions have or don’t have. During the month of October, the U.S. trade deficit increased to 42.2 billion dollars. Our trade with China accounted for most of that deficit. Our trade deficit with China in October increased to a new all-time one month record of 29.5 billion dollars. Nearly 30 billion dollars that could have gone to U.S. businesses and U.S. workers went to China instead. Since 1975, a total of about 8 trillion dollars that could have gone to U.S. businesses and U.S. workers went to the rest of the world instead. Shiny new factories are going up all over China, and meanwhile our once great manufacturing cities are degenerating into desolate wastelands. So what is going to happen when all of the good paying manufacturing jobs are gone? Are we all going to fight bitterly over whether we should unionize the low paying jobs that remain at places such as Wal-Mart and McDonalds? Such an approach is not going to bring back prosperity to America. We desperately need to start building things and start creating real wealth inside this country once again. We desperately need to stop sending tens of thousands of businesses, millions of jobs and trillions of dollars of our national wealth out of the country. Unfortunately, I don’t see anyone out there holding protests about our trade deficit. Nobody really seems to care, so our economy will continue to bleed good jobs and the middle class will continue to be destroyed.
The funny thing is that the workers that are out there protesting these union bills actually voted for the politicians that are killing their jobs. Both parties are married to the one world economic system and the “free trade” agenda, and Barack Obama has been one of the worst offenders. He has been pushing for more “free trade agreements” throughout the past four years, and yet union workers continue to support him enthusiastically.
How foolish can they possibly be?
Yeah, let’s merge American workers into a global labor pool with workers in third world countries on the other side of the globe that work in absolutely nightmarish conditions for as little as 45 dollars a month. That sounds like a great idea, doesn’t it?
Oh, but you don’t want to work for 45 dollars a month?
You don’t even want to work for 450 dollars a month?
Well, then the big corporations that fund politicians like Obama will just take your jobs and send them halfway around the planet.
Read More at thedailysheeple.com . By Michael Snyder.
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I’ve been saying for years – what we need isn’t tariffs or conventional trade restrictions.
What we NEED is a “Balance-of-Trade” agreement with other nations. In essence:
- In order for US to buy from YOU, YOU have to agree to purchase a similar amount of goods from US. A variance of, say, 2% is allowed (2% of a few billion is plenty of wiggle room.)
Meaning: if you want us to be $100M of stuff from you, you agree to buy $98M-$102M from us in exchange.
- The variance MUST alternate year-by-year – if you buy 2% less from us than we buy from you one year, the next year you have to buy 2% MORE (this allows the trade balance to even out in the long run.)
- If you fail to follow this arrangement, then we won’t buy anything from you until the balance is restored.
Those idiots protesting “right to work” show that they like the forced slavery they are under because of the union thugs. It is not about the workers but the worker’s forced dues that go toward electing democrats who don’t give a rat’s a## about the workers but want the power over the people to continue and grow to a full blown Communist State.
Yeah, these unions are keeping Demonrats like Senator Carl love-me-less Levin and Debbie Stab-us-all-in-the-back Now in power for a long time. These two U.S. Senators have destroyed Michigan. That’s why the voters want a right-to-work law so these unions don’t extort money from unwilling workers to keep these corrupt politicians in power to continue to oppress the people. And it seems we are in debt to Red China — a communist country. These politicians are putting us into economic slavery every day. God help America.
Jeffery Immel, GE’s CEO, Obama’s JOKE of a Job Czar, has sent over 25,000 jobs overseas, who knows how many Apple has sent overseas, yet the rape the American people by charging $500.00 for an IPhone. Many high tech companies do exactly the same thing, by utilizing cheap Chinese labour overseas at $45.00 per month, they pardon the expression, s%$#w everyone that they can.
American companies should be taxed a significant tariff if they design products here, and build them overseas, only top sell them here, it’s a formula for disaster.