Economics

Everyone has been worried about the economy lately; the mortgage crisis, rising fuel costs, and inflation.  Fuel is rising because China needs more of it to make the lead-bearing products we eagerly buy.  And why do we do this?  Because they are cheaper than US made goods made by union workers who demand $30 an hour for turning a screw or running a sewing machine.  But who can blame them, they want a Lexus just like you do.    After the Second World War, the United States was a marvel of industrial and agricultural productivity and  has historically been the dynamo driving the economy of the rest of the world.   That is not "American arrogance", it is merely an economic fact.  If WalMart had existed then, no doubt they would have sold many products to Americans that were actually made by other Americans.   In more recent decades however,  we have seen industries move first to Japan and then to China and Korea among other places; technology has been off-shored to India and we are importing food from Mexico (and again from China).  Why?  Because it's cheaper to do business elsewhere than in the United States.  Politicians are telling us we need to be concerned about global warming ( my bad - it's been relabeled "climate change" now ) and that we need a socialized healthcare system to solve all of our problems.  They should be telling us "For the last 40 or so years, we have done our best to destroy capitalism in the United States and replace it with entitlement socialism so we can become more like Europe, going forward, we want to let America manufacture her own goods and  grow her own food without being mired in paperwork and the constant threat of litigation.   We the People of  the capitalist United States of America will once again have the same opportunity to thrive as the businesses in communist China do today".