This peice could uses some work, but I'll probably just let it go at this (otherwise, I might find it to be work-like):
I strongly disagree with hardliner Republicans on this one. The reason GM is faltering is that it has obligation to the retirement of its past workers, which impacts how competitive it is. This may make it a dinosaur, as in, it is being a responsible citizen for it previous employees, while attempting to compete with younger businesses with few such obligation, possibly, in the near future, from countries that use slave labor. We in the US, need to have our right to work protected more than we need cheap foreign products.
I am not a proponent of strong protectionist policies, I am, however, a proponent of people being employed with good jobs.
So, I think we need to take the excessive burden off or our car companies, of their retired workers, and, after we've figured out how to deal with it, find out how it occurred, and develop a way for companies to be protected from future instances of similar problems.
On protectionism, we need to rediscover things like the textile market in the US, we've been destroyed because of concerted effort to sell cheap clothing inside the US by foreign countries. We have helped many people by doing so, but it has also had devastating impacts on some of the communities we've supposedly helped.
All the wars:
Drug war
Trade war
Gay marriage war
Abortion war
are not doing us any favors. We seem to be determined to fight a trade war, but only on behalf of the wealthy in our country. This is ridiculous.
The US is fighting two internal wars, a gay marriage war, and an abortion war. First, the only thing that abortion has going for it is that its held as a personal right, none of the societal aspects or even the personal medical risks are in favor of abortion. From any number of standpoints, abortion is a bad idea. Many states and people believe that it is the kind of thing that needs to be strongly legally discouraged. Others believe that it was wrong to force other states into accepting abortion. Democrats consistently tell us that its a "past issues," and yet it clearly is not. They have thus far insisted not on simply retaining this war at home, but expanding it on countries like Kenya, were the view that abortion is an abomination might have a prevalence of as much as 90%. In the Middle East, the variance between the party is one of either erratics warlords, or immoral teachers and murders. Both imperial. Why can't we end this war, or at least disarm the activist side from destroying institutions we care about and wish to support. The same thing goes for gay marriage, except that the US isn't actively trying to push it on third world countries. We should be able to have a healthy debate and disarm the activists from doing what we cannot accept them doing.
As for the drug war, we need to intervene properly or not intervene at all. And, I think it could be considered time to intervene, but we can't because we have to finish a couple "interventions," and they are very expensive.
So, what do we do with the trade war? I think we can tinker on the lending side, even with the fed, to diversify investment vehicles.
I look forward to a healthy debate, and hopefully some more US manufacturing jobs.
And as far as this GM bailout is concerned, we aren't fighting against poor people, like in the textile industry, we're fighting against young modernized country companies, and we could level the playing field and get much better products as a result. We don't want to err on the side of too few manufacturers.
I strongly disagree with hardliner Republicans on this one. The reason GM is faltering is that it has obligation to the retirement of its past workers, which impacts how competitive it is. This may make it a dinosaur, as in, it is being a responsible citizen for it previous employees, while attempting to compete with younger businesses with few such obligation, possibly, in the near future, from countries that use slave labor. We in the US, need to have our right to work protected more than we need cheap foreign products.
I am not a proponent of strong protectionist policies, I am, however, a proponent of people being employed with good jobs.
So, I think we need to take the excessive burden off or our car companies, of their retired workers, and, after we've figured out how to deal with it, find out how it occurred, and develop a way for companies to be protected from future instances of similar problems.
On protectionism, we need to rediscover things like the textile market in the US, we've been destroyed because of concerted effort to sell cheap clothing inside the US by foreign countries. We have helped many people by doing so, but it has also had devastating impacts on some of the communities we've supposedly helped.
All the wars:
Drug war
Trade war
Gay marriage war
Abortion war
are not doing us any favors. We seem to be determined to fight a trade war, but only on behalf of the wealthy in our country. This is ridiculous.
The US is fighting two internal wars, a gay marriage war, and an abortion war. First, the only thing that abortion has going for it is that its held as a personal right, none of the societal aspects or even the personal medical risks are in favor of abortion. From any number of standpoints, abortion is a bad idea. Many states and people believe that it is the kind of thing that needs to be strongly legally discouraged. Others believe that it was wrong to force other states into accepting abortion. Democrats consistently tell us that its a "past issues," and yet it clearly is not. They have thus far insisted not on simply retaining this war at home, but expanding it on countries like Kenya, were the view that abortion is an abomination might have a prevalence of as much as 90%. In the Middle East, the variance between the party is one of either erratics warlords, or immoral teachers and murders. Both imperial. Why can't we end this war, or at least disarm the activist side from destroying institutions we care about and wish to support. The same thing goes for gay marriage, except that the US isn't actively trying to push it on third world countries. We should be able to have a healthy debate and disarm the activists from doing what we cannot accept them doing.
As for the drug war, we need to intervene properly or not intervene at all. And, I think it could be considered time to intervene, but we can't because we have to finish a couple "interventions," and they are very expensive.
So, what do we do with the trade war? I think we can tinker on the lending side, even with the fed, to diversify investment vehicles.
I look forward to a healthy debate, and hopefully some more US manufacturing jobs.
And as far as this GM bailout is concerned, we aren't fighting against poor people, like in the textile industry, we're fighting against young modernized country companies, and we could level the playing field and get much better products as a result. We don't want to err on the side of too few manufacturers.
