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At the rate we're going with the West's soaring trade deficit with China and India, the West may become a second rate or even third world society in relation to China and India.
Their space programs are an obvious sign that they are on their way to catching up with us and, eventually, passing us, technologically.
China and India have amassed an immense industrial and info-tech advantage, to the point that almost all consumer electronics are made there. China and India have proposed an industrial-tech alliance that, if they were to follow through on it, would render the Western world a backward world in comparison. But again, that pales in comparison to what they're doing with regards to going into outer space.
But worse than this, the popularity of India and China for employers clearly says three things that completely discredit Western nations and their values:
1) Rock bottom wages is the way to go if you want to attract jobs.
2) You need to allow companies to pollute your air and water without the burden of cleaning up their mess, in order to attract jobs.
3) If you enforce reasonable workplace safety rules, you will lose jobs overseas. Companies will go where it's legal for them to build factories and mines that collapse.
In addition, for China, they are an undemocratic despotic country rife with corporate crony capitalism.
As long as those conditions continue to persist, the entire concept of Western values will continue to lose credibility in the eyes of the world.
Inevitably, China and India will corner the market on technological production and research - including biotech (both high-tech biotech research and production), which is currently being offshored to India.
Why go for a science degree in America when your job is going to go overseas? Indeed, enrollment in the sciences is not increasing as it should be, especially when you count out the Chinese and Indian students who come here, get educated, and leave.
Ending trade with China and India has been mistakenly compared to Smoot-Hawley by ignorant people who, embarrassed by the mountains of historical fact show the foolishness of such comparisns, are too afraid to discuss the issue of the inevitable ruin of Western civilization with 'free trade'.
The reality is, ending trade with these countries is painful and even economically devastating in the short run - but to not end trade with them will lead to far worse short and long term consequences. Continuing to trade with China and India will lead to Western civilization becoming a world of has-beens with undemocratic despots and sweatshop nations calling the global political shots just as the Western world does now.
Free trade with China and India can only lead to a future dark age in which the Corporate State rules the world and the working class will languish in industrial pollution - which, without all the other issues (poverty by rock bottom wages, a growing global disrespect for democracy, etc.) that will come to fruition, is catastrophic enough all by itself.
The solution is clear: End all trade with China and India, and end all trade barriers with Western democracies.
Trade only with nations that respect not only democracy, but also worker's rights and the human race's right to a clean environment.
Bite the bullet now before China and India render the West and its values obsolete.
Their space programs are an obvious sign that they are on their way to catching up with us and, eventually, passing us, technologically.
China and India have amassed an immense industrial and info-tech advantage, to the point that almost all consumer electronics are made there. China and India have proposed an industrial-tech alliance that, if they were to follow through on it, would render the Western world a backward world in comparison. But again, that pales in comparison to what they're doing with regards to going into outer space.
But worse than this, the popularity of India and China for employers clearly says three things that completely discredit Western nations and their values:
1) Rock bottom wages is the way to go if you want to attract jobs.
2) You need to allow companies to pollute your air and water without the burden of cleaning up their mess, in order to attract jobs.
3) If you enforce reasonable workplace safety rules, you will lose jobs overseas. Companies will go where it's legal for them to build factories and mines that collapse.
In addition, for China, they are an undemocratic despotic country rife with corporate crony capitalism.
As long as those conditions continue to persist, the entire concept of Western values will continue to lose credibility in the eyes of the world.
Inevitably, China and India will corner the market on technological production and research - including biotech (both high-tech biotech research and production), which is currently being offshored to India.
Why go for a science degree in America when your job is going to go overseas? Indeed, enrollment in the sciences is not increasing as it should be, especially when you count out the Chinese and Indian students who come here, get educated, and leave.
Ending trade with China and India has been mistakenly compared to Smoot-Hawley by ignorant people who, embarrassed by the mountains of historical fact show the foolishness of such comparisns, are too afraid to discuss the issue of the inevitable ruin of Western civilization with 'free trade'.
The reality is, ending trade with these countries is painful and even economically devastating in the short run - but to not end trade with them will lead to far worse short and long term consequences. Continuing to trade with China and India will lead to Western civilization becoming a world of has-beens with undemocratic despots and sweatshop nations calling the global political shots just as the Western world does now.
Free trade with China and India can only lead to a future dark age in which the Corporate State rules the world and the working class will languish in industrial pollution - which, without all the other issues (poverty by rock bottom wages, a growing global disrespect for democracy, etc.) that will come to fruition, is catastrophic enough all by itself.
The solution is clear: End all trade with China and India, and end all trade barriers with Western democracies.
Trade only with nations that respect not only democracy, but also worker's rights and the human race's right to a clean environment.
Bite the bullet now before China and India render the West and its values obsolete.
