by Robert M. Traxler
Our current government is reimagining international trade and our domestic economy. It has been 16 years since the federal government announced the monumental change of our nation from a nation that makes things to an economy that is service based.
The current national debt of some $37 trillion dollars has proven the service economy experiment has been a dismal failure. Sure we enjoyed the unfettered spending, like a person running up credit cards until the bills are due.
The old saying “those who can, do; those who can’t, complain” is apparent in the debate over the massive change in our economic system. The Democrats have not advocated for a system that will stop the bleeding of our dying economic system, but they are masters in complaining about them. Tariffs on our products by other nations are social justice because we are the evil rich; tariffs that protect our economy are discriminatory as they make costs increase.
It is short term pain for long term gain; we must return to a manufacturing-based economy or see our nation wither and die. The death of our nation is just in the eyes of the progressives, as our capitalist economy is racist, sexist, homophobic, unjust, unfair and not properly supportive of an equal outcome, not equal opportunity.
The major question we need to ask is, why have our progressive friends and neighbors advocated for the death of a manufacturing-based economy in favor of a serviced based economy? In my opinion it is twofold. First, we must worship at the altar of environmental justice; second, we must punish Americans for being too affluent and reward the third world for our perceived crimes of economic capitalist successes.
We need to ask ourselves why environmental justice warriors turn a blind eye to the third world being an environmental disaster, polluting Mother Earth at a rate much greater than we did as the world’s leader in manufacturing. A darn near endless train exists between North Korea and China, with China burning dirty soft coal in Chinese coal power plants, 1,169 of them. The United States has some 200 coal plants burning hard, less “dirty” coal, with very strict controls on smokestack emissions.
India has nearly 300 coal plants and increasing; cities in China, India and other nations are environmental disasters, with the folks who would picket, protest, or sabotage American plants in the past being deaf, dumb and mute when it comes to the third world’s massive pollution.
Our dependency on other nations for manufacturing was apparent during the “COVID-19 epidemic.” We should ask why we have placed our nation in a potentially disastrous situation, like an almost total lack of life saving antibiotics, if China cuts off our supply. Darn near everything electronic is dependent on China, Taiwan, India and other nations. Not to worry, the Silicon Valley new rich are donating hundreds of millions to the progressive party so that the environmental warriors are blinded by political correctness to the potential disaster, both economic and environmental.
We are seeing the moving of agricultural products to other nations in the name of environmental justice; apparently cows in Argentina and Brazil do not fart methane as they do in the United States. Grains produced in other nations do not need fertilizer as they do in our nation; just how they survive without nitrate fertilizer is unknown, or need we say, never asked.
Cutting trees in Canada, importing oil by pipeline from Canada are fine, but producing lumber and drilling for oil in the United States are a danger to the new world order, how? Asking the question is not politically correct.
Perhaps we should ask why the world did not end as guaranteed by former Vice President Albert Arnold Gore Jr. predicted in his award-winning book. Why is the polar bear not extinct as he predicted for the last 10 years, why is his newly purchased $3 million mansion in Florida not under water as he guaranteed in his 2007 Noble Prize-winning book and documentary “Earth in the Balance.”
Worldwide pollution has increased since 2007 and we are still here. Folks in the third world are dying off at an increased rate due to pollution-related diseases, but the progressives give themselves awards and decorations for the war to save the planet from American pollution. My opinion.
You’re in a severely undereducated clowncult.
Mr. Gless,
Sir, thank you for your well thought out, well researched, articulate comment. You are a credit the Progressive movement.
If life is an education spending 6 years residing in foreign nations and spending time in over 20 other nations, a masters degree, and most importantly 76 years of learning, then perhaps we can call a person educated. As Bertrand Russel stated “The truest test of someones education is how much they agree with you.” One must be honored to be called under educated by you. Thanks again.
AB,
Check and Checkmate!
Well done Sir!!
Cheers!!!