Per the store on Foxnews today, China completed 4 giant sections previously damaged on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. What was liberal California’s solution? Why have China make it! What a grand idea! What shortsightedness! Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face! So California thinks that by saving a few bucks in the short run, it will do better in the long run. This is foolishness, as the tax revenue lost from the jobs and industry that could have produced those bridge sections in this country is completely lost, not to mention the trickle effects on other parts of the economy. They may as well have just taken that money and thrown it off the bridge – it would have been almost the same.
Those foolish reporters that quote economists that contend that we should always pay the least for any product are way off base. It makes sense only when comparing imports, not when comparing domestic products vs. imports. If you spend money on your own people, the money stays in the economy rather than being lost, never to be seen again.
I enjoy the blog and I completely understand what you are saying.
For example if Apple Developed and MANUFACTURED in the United States, they could possibly be more profitable than they are now. For example if they employed 5000 more employees in the United States to manufacture their products and paid them a decent wage… sure the cost of an iPhone might be a little higher, but that might also cause them to sell more iphones because more people in this country are making a decent living.
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I was so outraged when I heard this on the news that I wrote my congressman. I did get a response from Senator Blunt. It was a bunch of political grap, I did not ever read it all. Is California just stupid. Do they not know that putting their citiizen back to work would help their economy. We have such idiots running this country that I am just sick. We sell off our land, our businesses, our educational system, and we just sit back and let it happen. Three people in our family lost their jobs this year. It is time for our citizen to protest, the protest should be done with respect, but it must be done. I am thinking about finding out where our local congressmen offices are and protesting. I do not know what else to do, You know the saddest thing is that the people I talked to did not know about this. I am not on facebook, but I am thinking that maybe I will go on facebook just to state my outrage. The only hope I have is that I believe in God, and God is still in control
WE HAVE OBAMA YELLING FOR BUILDING BRIDGES, ETC….
BUT HE DID NOT PROMISE TO USE AMERICAN’S. HE IS PRETTY
CRAFTY WITH WORDS….BUT ANOTHER TERM AND WE ARE ALL
DOOMED!
WE AMERICAN’S HAVE TURNED INTO STUPID!
This is the reason we are in the shape, we are in today! Saving a buck today is/or will pay off in the future? BULLSHIT!
I agree with what you are saying, but am troubled with the terminology.
California is anything but liberal. They are taxing American people to give to the Chinese.
You can read the saga between California state and Amazon affiliates to see how “liberal” California actually is.
Concerning the “economists”, I don’t know which ones were stupid enough to uphold this decision.
But I am pretty sure they were the same ones that failed to predict the 2008 crisis, and are the same ones that are also upholding the stimulus.
Don’t think that the modern use of the word “liberal” (really meaning Socialist) means that the state supports the interests of the common people over big business or foreign interests. A quick reading of 20th century history of socialism and liberal/progressivism will quickly teach you otherwise. Socialism believes in state control for the benefit of “the people,” whatever that is. It does not believe in individual liberty or the pursuit of happiness. Thus, big business frequently colludes with socialist governments to advance its interests at the expense of smaller competitors. Look no further than to see how government regulations help big business at the expense of small business and keep small business small. Even the Big Tobacco settlement helped Big Tobacco at the expense of smaller upstarts. In case you didn’t know, Fascism and National Socialism (Nazism) are all left wing political movements. Libertarianism (which is the true liberalism) seeks to pull down this whole parasitic edifice of government.
[…] money, that support the anti-Americans and the foreign. The best example of this is the decision of California to build their bridges in China. The money the Californian government is giving to the Chinese is not the money they produced, […]
We can’t seem to get it through our heads that Americans like the Occupiers want their cake and eat it too without paying the price. Our elected officials some I think knowingly made and are making attempts to ruin America and make Americans become the next third world. We can’t fall into a depression or recession borrow more than we should, demand Unions be more powerful then our Elected Officials and have them dig us deeper into debt with the wages they demand. If you are in need of a coat and your best friend is a coat maker and is in need of money but you must pay him wages you can’t afford do you go cold?Maybe we will wake up and remind everyone that we as individuals must play fair, not blame the problems on others who could care less. Wake up America we the people, need to be more reasonable.