What I'm saying is that prior to the "free market" policies of the neo cons, America was a soverign nation that put its own interests first. Companies that were based here were American companies and they actually put their own country first. They were patriotic too. And why not? After all, they directly benefitted from America becoming a stronger nation and wars we fought.
That all changed after Communist Russia went away and the neo-con globalist policies began to really take hold. Soon, American companies began going abroad where labor was cheaper and then reselling those products back here. That alone was not the issue. That they did it in Communist countries that used slave labor to really take advantage of extremely low cost and an oppressed society is what is staggering. Any idiot could figure out the end result, although all those basturds told us for decades, that by going overseas, they'd create consumer markets in China and elsewhere that would eventually buy American made products. Total lies as we all know. The container ships that leave America contain nothing more than scrap metal, logs and oil. Almost no products at all.
You and others speak in terms free market, free competition and fairness. All talking points that were brainwashed into the heads of the conservative movement, including myself, but there is nothing fair about what happened to our country. And while I saw this coming years ago, many on our side of the isle are just now waking up. But as we see in thread, still many others haven't figured it out yet.
Every major corporation, every company that pulled roots and moved overseas, either entirely or just manufacturing, benefitted in some way by being an American company. They either grew and profitted from our wars, or they lived off of tax breaks, political influence that we gave them over the years, all over the world, and just by generally being supported by the American consumer and tax payer.
Had we as a nation not propped them up and helped them build up to be the companies they grew into, they would have never reached global international corporate status. They have us, and our tax paid dollars to thank.
They repaid Americans by first shipping jobs overseas and then shipping themselves and their entire tax base overseas. And then just to kick us while we are down, they are now taking with them, technology and resources that was developed in this country over the last many decades, often at tax payer expense, to sell to the highest overseas bidder.
It's not that it's un-America. Obviously indepedence and freedom of choice is what we are about. It's that they stabbed in the back and we actually helped them do it. America is about freedom, but we also have personal honor. A true American would not steal our neighbor's food and then sell out his house out from under him and careless about him and his family starving to death.
But consevatives and neo-cons have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into an ideology where it's OK to put one's self first and ahead of everyone else, thus justifying all of thier business decisions. Ironicly, many conservatives are Christain, yet the ideology of self first, is as entire anti-Christain as it gets.
We are responsible for allowing this to happen. We did it by electing and then supporting the neo-con economic philosophy that started with Reagan and continued with Bush sr. and Clinton and Bush W. This is definately not a republican issue, but rather a bi-partisen economy philosphy that got us here to where we are, supported by both Democrats and Republicans. Everyone of us that voted these scum into office is to blame. But not only did we vote them into office, we shopped at Wal-Mart and we didn't care where our stuff was made, as long as it was cheap. We literally built from scratch, China, the newest superpower that will overtake our position in the world in the near future.
It is all of our fault and now we're reaping what we sowed. We, the current generation of Americans, from the baby boomers to the gen Xers and beyond, destroyed this country.
