tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6764887698191008891.post2054468744763905813..comments2023-06-26T11:28:06.765-04:00Comments on Fluster Cucked: The Chinese Want to Innovate, Too. (Innovation Will Not Save the U.S. Economy.)Frank the Underemployed Professionalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00461791753886733576noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6764887698191008891.post-5807214656407564982010-06-24T22:02:36.830-04:002010-06-24T22:02:36.830-04:00Got some news for you on the Chinese Silicon Valle...Got some news for you on the Chinese Silicon Valley(s), they have 2 already and are building another. I just got back from there, Gaundong and Dalian are major points. Intel just built and has operational a new Nano chip plant in Dalian, China with over 1000 US employees and I do not know how many Chinese. It's gone, our 'tech lead' is history. China holds more Nano patents than any other country (23%) and they have 1.4 billion minds to harvest.Get used to it, the US, Dollar and our way of life will never be the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6764887698191008891.post-32278360311225884382010-06-20T00:54:25.024-04:002010-06-20T00:54:25.024-04:00@Anonymous 5:39
Are you kidding?
1. The minimum ...@Anonymous 5:39<br /><br />Are you kidding?<br /><br />1. The minimum wage jobs aren't the ones being off-shored, so dispense with that red herring.<br />2. Interfering regulations? Like the ones that keep our water safe to drink, our air safe to breathe, and our work places safe to work in? Oh yes, those are definitely bad things. By the way, those were all passed under that Communist bomb-thrower Dick Nixon. And also by the way, I worked on both his '68 and '72 campaigns, which should give you some idea that I am not some smelly radical and that I have some depth perception on all this.<br />3. You do understand how unfettered free trade inherently favors capital over labor, don't you? Moving capital requires a few keystrokes and, presto, it's transferred from Detroit to Mumbai. The unemployed workers left behind? Not quite so mobile. They're left behind trying to compete against the worst sweatshops on Earth. Do you think that a race to the wage bottom is in any way a good thing? We were the world leader in it once, although they didn't tell you about it in school. I suggest you Google Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.Knute Rifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02345893660115107054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6764887698191008891.post-19417091170828572192010-06-20T00:51:43.280-04:002010-06-20T00:51:43.280-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Knute Rifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02345893660115107054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6764887698191008891.post-4684643463410148702010-06-18T05:39:17.374-04:002010-06-18T05:39:17.374-04:00I'm a so-called free market dogmatist. I dont ...I'm a so-called free market dogmatist. I dont think they would of shipped the jobs and industry overseas if there were no government interference. For example, because the government economically interferes, we have so many rules and regulations as well as minimum wages that make businesses want to go overseas to begin with. It's not really the free market that's at fault but rather the government. Get rid it, just leave the police and army(but we all know this wont happen so lets just blame capitalist and the free market instead).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6764887698191008891.post-46887155283106156152010-06-18T01:00:04.655-04:002010-06-18T01:00:04.655-04:00If we expect to make any progress, we have to come...If we expect to make any progress, we have to come up with solutions. What do we want? <br /><br />How about reversing the offshoring trend through the use of tariffs that punish nations who: allow companies to exploit workers or the environment or manipulate currencies? <br /><br />Are we prepared to deal with retaliation?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com