Classe move to China

Its kind of sad to be of an age where I've personally witnessed the decline and now, downward spiral, of our economy. It needn't be this way: other courses were and are readily available. Its a failure of will on the part of the electorate to fully participate (by simply paying attention and voting) and the rise of sociopaths in positions of power in industry with the means to buy off politicians. It happens to every great and small country at every stage of our existence. Take any form of government, be it a dictatorship, a monarchy, a democracy and pull away the facade and you'll find oligarchs. Oligarchs are nothing more than people who've amassed great fortunes and are willing to use some degree of coercive violence to keep it. That violence can manifest itself from retinues of personal mercenaries and standing armies to something as ubiquitous as a tax code.

There's lots of window dressing that we all fall for.

01-04-12: Pubul57
What car is built in SC? I'm going to buy one!

BMW for one

As with many countries, both good and bad products come from China.

Its kind of sad to be of an age where I've personally witnessed the decline and now, downward spiral, of our economy.

Globalization Equalization......

Does not bode well for the middle class and their standard of living....

Its a failure of will on the part of the electorate to fully participate (by simply paying attention and voting) and the rise of sociopaths in positions of power in industry with the means to buy off politicians.
01-04-12: Nonoise

Just part of the dumbing down of America....

If I were the Chinese communist government I would be using some of those US consumer dollars, through surrogates, to buy up all the good rich tillable US farm ground I could get my hands on.
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It's a global economy now and will become more so as time goes on. Its the natural progression of things. Other than complain, not much choice but to get used to it and adapt. Change is hard.

Mapman is right - the other shoe has dropped and we are waiting for it to hit the floor. My motto, since I became aware of the inevitability we face, has been, " I can't keep it from happening, but I might be able to keep it from happening to me". Now I'm starting to think I've been kidding myself with that one.
What happens if the Oval Office and both Houses go Republican? We could all get notices the following week that our mortgages are being called in. Instantly, we become a nation of renters. Think in terms of the quintessential coal mining community where the company owns the housing and the only place to buy anything (including food) is from the company. No money anywhere to be seen because we all work for the company and we all have charge accounts at the store that we cannot afford to pay off because our wages are scaled to keep us that way.

Somebody please, tell me why that won't happen.