Thought for the day...Globalization is teeeriffic

[Horse with no Name]

Until one of the players pisses in the collective global pool and throws the entire world in a tailspin. This time it was us, next time who will it be?
What is to guarantee that we will get this thing fixed and another Bush won't come along and piss in the pool?
I'm sorry...give me a strong local economy any day of the week that is dependent on home grown jobs/industry/manufacturing and buying goods made by my neighbors--not worker/slaves in a communist country who reap absolutely no benefits from the fruits of their labors and suffer ungodly abuse at the hands of their masters while they cry "A Chia Pet in every pot".
There was a time when our country was strong enough to make a difference in the rest of the world--but it too broken and our citizens are suffering as much as people in the Third World who used to be able to depend on us to help them through hard times. People are dying every day from lack of healthcare. Our infrastructure has been dismantled and/or broken.
Maybe we will regain our status at some future point and become the shoulder for the world to cry on, but now is not that time. And that is incredibly sad but that is just the way it is and I wish the politicians would quit pretending it wasn't.:(

[NMDemDist2]

1. I just read your other post about your washer/dryer and you are so correct

I had to go dig up this post of mine out of my journal from two years ago

it's called 'not seeing the forest for the trees' IIRC

exactly!
Posted by AZDemDist6 in General Discussion (01/01/06 through 01/22/2007)
Sat Mar 25th 2006, 10:35 PM
that is exactly the point. and we used to pay our hard earned wages for products made with pride by our neighbors and we didn't toss them when they broke (which they rarely did) we had them repaired and we cared for them and handed them down to our children.

pieces and parts of our lives that knit our communities together with our labor and with our interdependence. we would no more make a shoddy product for our neighbor as we would feed our family poison.

it was the pride and strength that built our homes, families, communities and nation.

how far we have fallen that we'll allow our neighbors lose their livelyhood so we can have cheap foreign doo dads that clutter our lives and add nothing to our spirits. we turn our backs on community and kill our country with every piece of crap from WallyMart while our Chinese brethren poison their land and water in the chase to make it for us.

Criminal.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/AZDemDist6/13

[Horse with no Name]

3. Awesome and outstanding post.

And totally on-spot.

[antigop]

2. Sounds like a great LTTE-- how about submitting it? n/t

[Horse with no Name]

4. Thank you. I just might. n/t