tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post3677572131701261105..comments2023-10-05T04:00:39.089-05:00Comments on Kingdom of Chaos: America is Bigger Than an Idea: It's a NationEl Jefe Maximohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14661511063910659377noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post-81893859032048089242007-10-04T21:58:00.000-05:002007-10-04T21:58:00.000-05:00El JefeAn excellent brief. One of the best commen...El Jefe<BR/><BR/>An excellent brief. One of the best comments I have seen on the subject. Keep it up.hank_F_Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09851295792702162861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post-38086456554307060962007-10-03T21:31:00.000-05:002007-10-03T21:31:00.000-05:00What in hell is happening at the LA Times that the...What in hell is happening at the LA Times that they run a column by Goldberg?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post-49389461132387650352007-10-03T16:46:00.000-05:002007-10-03T16:46:00.000-05:00anon said:Also companies such as Walmart and their...anon said:<BR/><I>Also companies such as Walmart and their competitors have driven much of the US manufacturing overseas in order to deliver cheaper consumer goods.</I><BR/><BR/>imo, they have gone in search of slave labor.<BR/>these comsumer goods, clothes, furniture, household appliances, are what made middle america. if middle america has no job, how can they afford the cheaper consumer goods.<BR/>soon the middle class will disappear and we will have........europe.<BR/>the middle class is what made america.<BR/>soon there will only be the haves and have-nots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post-57577438272851267242007-10-03T16:03:00.000-05:002007-10-03T16:03:00.000-05:00I don't disagree with your analysis a bit, anon. B...I don't disagree with your analysis a bit, anon. But I would like to see us try to affect all of these rather negative trends in a positive way.El Jefe Maximohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661511063910659377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post-75522157344576363972007-10-03T15:58:00.000-05:002007-10-03T15:58:00.000-05:00"For their own reasons, our own elites seem to wan..."For their own reasons, our own elites seem to want to join their foreign confreres in tying the American Gulliver down. We shouldn't let them."<BR/><BR/>I think you give much too much credit to left leaning university musings. Actually much of the change is being driven by good old American business capitalism. For example much of the reason for the failure of the recent immigration bill was the reluctance of business to give up their supply of cheap labor. Also companies such as Walmart and their competitors have driven much of the US manufacturing overseas in order to deliver cheaper consumer goods. Even high tech goods, such as airplanes, now have many parts and sub systems produced in multiple countries. Business is also requesting continued import of foreign knowledge workers, i.e. engineers, in order to supplement the dismally low output from US universities. The large accumulation of US dollars by foreign holders will eventually be returned to the US in the form of more purchase of American companies and/or US property and natural resource assets, since we produce limited amounts of manufactured goods they are interested in purchasing. The failure to reduce imports of oil will cause us to remain entangled with the Middle East, and Russia too, for years to come. Even the demand for agricultural products in foreign countries and the trade off between food vs energy production will affect the American economy. <BR/><BR/>The global rise of economic activity and wealth of other nations will inevitably result in the United States becoming ever increasingly involved with these countries, and our culture is bound to change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post-53844245346713875802007-10-03T14:03:00.000-05:002007-10-03T14:03:00.000-05:00I'm not totally shocked by the link in yr. however...I'm not totally shocked by the link in yr. however, LL. That's more or less what I figured. <BR/><BR/>At least with Bush, and as was true with the older line post-WW II internationalists, we get to be internationalist in a world run more or less on American terms. There has always been a sort of double standard to globalization --many of its lefty critics contend that it means globalization on American terms. And so, for many years, it more or less did. <BR/><BR/>Now this is changing -- as the enemies of American influence and the new transnationals at last see that they can use globalization to restrain the Americans.<BR/><BR/>Don't get me wrong: I'm much too <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaullism" REL="nofollow">Gaullist</A> to be isolationist. We are far too emmeshed in the world in terms of commerce and dependence on raw materials to ever succeed with isolationism. America is, in all but name, an Empire and we have mostly done well out of that, and should remember that every time we put gas in the car. But I want to keep American in the Empire.El Jefe Maximohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661511063910659377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post-15112924543574973282007-10-03T13:41:00.000-05:002007-10-03T13:41:00.000-05:00i don't soil essays of yours, eloquent like this o...i don't soil essays of yours, eloquent like this one, with comments of mine, <A HREF="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53023" REL="nofollow"> however.</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com