How long will we tolerate giving the farm away?
I am living in a place that produces about 10 percent of the worlds oil exports and chances are, if you drive a car you have burned some of the oil from here. This is a product that has a strong demand if only because the world is addicted to it. At this point, it doesn’t really matter when it comes to the country’s financial well being. What does matter is that there is a big demand for it and like it or not, that demand pays the bills, end of story.
America used to be a great nation that produced things that the world wanted. We still could if it weren’t for the costs associated with the production. In the place I live now, you can’t really outsource oil production so the income is almost a guarantee. That is, unless, an alternative for oil is discovered and until then, it isn’t going to change.
In the middle east, I drive by the oil refineries every day as I go to work and the refining towers used to crack the oil generate waste vapors that are burned off and you can see the fires from the fifty or so stacks. It’s an amazing site to see indeed. The liberal tree huggers would have a heart attack if they saw this and sometimes I think it might not be a bad thing. I truly believe that there are processes used to produce certain goods that are going to create a certain amount of pollution and there isn’t a way to stop it. It’s the old saying, you gotta break a few eggs to make an omlet. This thought brings me to my next thought. We in America used to produce many goods that we and the rest of the world want. But these days we are over regulated and we can’t break any eggs so to speak. By that I mean, the ecology passionate people (Freaks) have turned the act of “saving the earth” into a religion and it makes it it near impossible to make some of the things we used to make. Meanwhile, the rest of the world has the sense to realize this paradigm and thusly continues to make those goods we all need.
One way to stop some of the problems of job loss is to impute an import tax on goods that would make them cost the same as what they would cost to produce in the U.S. Take that tax and use it to aid in education for U.S. residents ONLY. Other countries tariff imported goods and it works. We are too touchy feely and are afraid to offend anyone. I say you do what you need to in an effort to protect your own country first. If other countries don’t like it, too bad. We cannot afford to keep giving ours away but the bleeding hearts want to do exactly that. Problem is, there are less tax paying citizens every day as jobs dry up and go to other countries. I am in a unique situation but I in fact have exited the country because of a lack of good paying jobs at home. I reap the benefits of working in a place where they don’t give away the farm. In some ways they can’t…they produce oil and it comes from the ground of the country. Can you imagine the economic effects on the world oil market if the ecology freaks had their way and were able to stop oil production in the middle east? In a way, they have had a bad influence on at least the U.S. market because they have slowed or blocked oil drilling in places like Alaska at the expense of the people. How long will we be so tolerant of this kind of self defeating behavior? How long until we find ways to make it too expensive to import cheaply made crappy goods so that the jobs will be brought back home? How long will it be before America wakes up and collectively says ENOUGH is ENOUGH!?
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