| Re: Aren't We Too Tolerant of the British? [message #99638 is a reply to message #99636] |
Fri, 31 July 2026 10:19   |
Rusty
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Location: Kansas City Missouri
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When I was a kid, I used to marvel at all the things that said, Made in USA on them. And, they did have a high quality to them. In that regard, to me at least, is that quality and quantity of US made "things" really started to drop off in the 70's. Which seems to coincide with when heavy industry such as steel production pulled up stakes leaving the Rust Belt throughout the midwest and eastern USA.
The Japanese were making inroads with car manufacturing in the 80's and had taken over the consumer electronics production. Now all of Asia practically does this for nearly all electronic, consumer appliances, cars etc.
America simply in adopting to an economic philosophy that eschewed manufacturing and industry for a service economy and financial dominance in planning the economy shot itself in the feet in today's world economy. All the skills and knowhow have been atrophied from this that cripple a manufacturing industrial base returning. That and a high cost of living driven up from a financialized economy. Even our tech sector has been outdone by the Chinese. Because they've invested and developed a huge supply chain system, educational incentive and research driven by their export and government planning for the future.
Our government these days as dictated by our economic strangulation of a small government shunned from participating in planning the economy and relying on whatever the whims of the marketplace is cannot compete with the economy of scale and cost of living going on in Asia and other countries once described as 3rd world.
China simply followed the historical economic patterns of what Great Britain, the US and Europe had done with the industrial revolution. The need for socializing the working class's needs for inexpensive living standards to make industry and manufacturing competitive for trade.
Finance capitalism has stymied our nation. Made in the USA is a thing of the past.
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