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So Long Golden Years

March 16, 2013   Thomas Heffner
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America has long since abandoned the tools that led to its golden era of production. Without a strong manufacturing base, the U.S. is now more vulnerable than at any time in its history. The facts speak for themselves – the U.S. has been forced to sell over 16,00 of our best companies in the past 30 years through the effects of our lopsided balance of trade surplus with our trading partners.  Bailouts from the government, which actually consist of borrowed money from the very countries that are taking our jobs and buying us out, give us a false sense of security. Home foreclosures are happening everyday, in spite of the government’s attempts to keep people in their homes. Why? Because our companies are forced to produce outside of the U.S.

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Coming to Terms with Reality

May 17, 2012   Benjamin Clement
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The wealth of the United States was largely achieved during the 20th century through the development of our industrial base. Our manufacturing industry has been eroded and rebuilt overseas, motivated by our domestic and foreign policies that did nothing to maintain America’s manufacturing capabilities. Free trade is meant to provide a mutual advantage between the two trading parties. When one country is better at production in one particular sector, and the other party is better in another, the two benefit from trade.

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A Plea for Americans to Unite

May 14, 2012   George Barlow
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Democrats and Republicans are constantly swept up in debate regarding labels. Republicans generally argue for free trade while a few progressive democrats campaign for fair trade. In reality, all that American citizens are doing is getting caught up in a false-ideological battle whilst ignoring actual issues. “Free trade” and “protectionist” fair trade are just labels: Americans should simply be focused on “trade” and what is best for our country. Is this not the policy every country should adopt?

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Protectionism is a matter of self-survival

March 04, 2012   William Cormier
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This article originally appeared on OpEdNews.com.

Back in 2005, I wrote an extensive series of articles on Wal-Mart and how one corporate giant was outsourcing anything and everything that American industry wouldn’t provide to them for resale at the prices they demanded. I opined that their actions were in essence “a national security risk” as we outsourced our light and heavy industry to other countries – especially to countries that were not necessarily “friends” of the United States. In fact, I wrote about the dangers of outsourcing before “WakeUpWalMart.com” even came into existence. I insisted that “the best price wasn’t always the best deal,” especially as to how it would eventually impact our own economy – and even more importantly, the impact on our national security. The article was titled “Wal-Mart – And the Destruction of our Economy.”-

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Class War in America, the Ongoing Assault

January 12, 2012   Vi Ransel
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This article originally appeared on OpEdNews.com.

Protectionism. Capitalists were all for it before they were against it. When manufacturing took place in America, when they paid workers enough to buy the products they produced, adding a tariff/tax/fee on to the cost of imported goods made by these same manufacturers’ competitors overseas, was fine. It just made sense. It was good business to prevent your domestic market from being flooded with cheaper goods from overseas, because that would lower domestic manufacturing’s ability to make enough money to stay in business. And this is exactly how the British and the Americans built their global empires.

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