Whoah, Prop, Lighten up Francis. It's your right to hate whomever or whatever you want.
Also, please seperate a soldiers duty from a politicians and propaganda from fact.
I never hated anyone I pulled a trigger on, I was doing my job.....
You ask if I think we are better off having foreign companies on American soil with half the revenue going overseas? Would that be opposed to not having a plant or revenue at all? Or is that instead of American Mfg's having subassembly plants outside of our borders with half of those revenues going outside the U.S.? You're going to have to help me on this one, I seem to be confused.....
First off, sorry..came off a bit brash. Second, where did I use the word "hate" in my prior post? Third, seperate a soldiers duty from politicians and propagana from fact? So the Nazi's putting jewish people in gas chambers and ovens were just doing thier duty? Or the Japanesse cutting out americans tounges and eyes, well they were just doing there job?
Oh yeah, impaling them with Bamboo shoots too..all in a days work! Sounds like duty to me! My point of view forgive but never forget, history is Philosophy teaching by examples.
I served in the military myself Rev and did get in a few fire fights. Now I'm not going to ride in like a gold pined hero my friend and say i didn't hate them, or whatever task I did was not followed or filled by emotion because it was just part of a job/duty. That would be called a line of ****. Getting shot at, i've never been so scared and pissed off in all of my life! All I wanted to do at the time is put bullets in them as fast as I could and save my own skin. I hated their guts for shooting at me! I don't know if those are the correct words to describe those combined emotions, but like you said, that's my right to use or feel them!
As far as American subassembly plants outside the U.S., I agree with you there-not good, but I was not posting on American Business Economics across borders, I was posting about foreign business here. As far as no revenue vs. foriegn owned, a foreign plant on our soil is a cure for a symptom in which the problem was created. Now let's think about this senario.. Foreign manufactures here in the states employing helpless failing communities because they have no other work. Yeah, right..
Sounds like a pad on the back to me. Created revenue sent back overseas to support foreign markets and economies....Not good, value of the american dollar goes down, in turn, easier and cheaper for foreign investors and business to build more plants here, buy out more american companies or like the swedish in the pulp and paper industry, buy it, lock the doors and there is one less competitor we have to worry about. On top of that, american industry has no credit due to loss of value and foreign markets will not invest (buy/invest american products),or utilize a sinking ship. American businesses continue to close thus more jobs lost. In all actuallity, the few jobs the foreign manufacturing plants here create now, in turn cause 10 times more job loss in the same and other sectors at the same time, while continuing to degrade our image as an economic superpower
As you can see it is pretty much a runaway train, a vicious cycle. How do we fix it? Sure in the hell not buy letting more foreign business build plants on our soil. That's part of the reason there is no jobs/revenue to begin with.
So with that in mind...thanks for the debate...respect your point of view...and who in the hell is Francis?
