Hi Gene, Thanks for your comment. I wish though that you would post your very intelligent comments on the website so others around the world can see your comments. My readers now include people from Singapore, Germany and other countries and I'm sure your incisive comments will benefit them too.
I've gotten hundreds of comments, though about a fifth of them have been spam and I've had to trash them. C PS This goes for Lynn and others too. On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Eugenio Pulmano <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > > > > > Hi Chay, > > Just read your latest post. It's very well written. > > In an ideal or idealized world, your idea makes perfect sense, at least > for the US. > > Except, the maxim(in the old days), "what's good for GM is good for > America," no longer holds. What's good for GM (or Ford or Google or Apple > for that matter, to take other examples) is good for GM, and ain't > necessarily good for America. Did you read my earlier post today indicating > trillions of dollars in profit by US corporations parked in other countries > to avoid paying US taxes, not to mention "masters of the universe" money > off-shored also [e.g., Romney's] for the same reason? And this practice is, > of course, reinforced by the Citizens United and further buttressed by the > surrogates and bought-out representatives of the titans of the financial > institutions and Big Business in the halls of Congress, doing their bidding > for them. American democracy is well on the way to plutocracy, and these > plutocrats have no loyalty to any country, not even America; wherever they > make their money is where their loyalty and heart are. Radical > neoliberalist policies and globalization, where movement of money or > capital, science and technology, and labor, is free will see to that, > unfettered. > > One other point; I'm not sure you have dealt with it: I think the New > Economy (Information Economy), although of tremendous positive > impact, was oversold; my take is that the leaders of the economy thought > that the New Economy will, or more than, totally make up for the Old > Economy (manufacturing); it didn't. In fact, it probably accelerated the > decline/demise of manufacturing in the US. It was manufacturing, with good > paying jobs, that largely made the middle class of America. You can easily > the parallel decline of the middle class and manufacturing. > > But over and above the factors cited, the greatest problem of America, as > I see it, is that it's riddled with so many deep fissures, divisions; some > of these fault lines even echo the civil war and its concomitant evils of > slavery and resurgent racism, albeit subtlety; one might say, in the > parlance of the cold war, is the emergence "low-intensity" conflicts, > along those lines, that have devastating toll on the US economy and > American life. > > > Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all. > > > Gene > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Cesar Lumba <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ** >> >> >> I just completed my latest blog post in us-consumer.com, titled The >> America We Know. 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