More RRL buzzwords, straight from the collective.

The reality, however, is the predictable decline of the american middle class since, like it or not, unionism elevated millions of american families into the middle class. $20/hr w beneies was replaced w $12/hr w/o benefits.

meanwhile our society has not properly promoted tradeschools which are more realistic for many citizens than 4 yr degrees which they will not obtain. european highschools test then career track kids early, many into the trades.

additionally, the low overseas wages (relatively speaking) are NOT elevating 3d world families into the middle class.
one only has to visit the manufacturing belt in mexico along our southern border to observe the shanty towns, garbage, & crime surrounding foreign factories.

the real question no politican asks, or answers, is does the american consumer ALWAYS deserve the lowest possible price regardless of defective design, toxic materials, environmental damage, & the real decline of the middle class both domestically AND overseas?

the effects of “free” trade are anything but free and yet serve to enrich the few at the expense of society.

By whom?

But human nature is to act in ones’ own self interest. This is not to deny altruism, not to deny the fact that huge portions of the human race can and do make sacrifices for the benefit of others, because they do.

But one of the many conflicting teachings of Leftism is related to this. On one hand, the need to undermine religion because it sets up an authority other than the State has Leftists arguing against religonclaiming that it is oppressive to try to impose or mandate morality, that advanced mankind should be ruled only by the morality of inclination.

But on the other hand, Leftists deny the existence of altruism by inclination and demand that it be imposed by the State.

In fact, the single most effective mechanisms for organized altruism is religion. Religions organize and deliver more humanitarian services, and do it better, than any government agency, and it is all volunteered, not mandated by law.

And individuals act in the most remarkably unselfish and generous ways, risking their lives to save the lives of others, fighting for the freedoms of not only their own nation but of others, acting as First Responders to help those in need, serving as missionaries and in Peace Corps types of endeavors, volunteering time and services in efforts such as Save a Smile (where plastic surgeons travel around the world with portable clinics repairing cleft palates) and Doctors Without Borders, and literally thousands of other efforts.

The greatest philantropists of our time have amassed huge fortunes and then used them for the betterment of others.

The underlying reason for the insistent mantra of “greed” is to establish, in the minds of the gullible, a need for a strong State to impose what it then defines as humanitarian dictates. That is to say, to strip freedoms to establish State controls, in the name of fighting that evil “GREED”.

building the turbines in our own factories would provide jobs for thousands and thousands of people for decades…

what is job creation…some slight of hand trick the socialist democrat party uses to decieve the idiots that vote for them so they can get re-elected?

Incidentally, do you remember those Bangladeshi textile workers I linked to a while ago? They’re rioting.