My latest at PJ Media:
Speaking at the Whirlpool Manufacturing Plant in Clyde, Ohio, on Thursday, President Donald Trump once again articulated the guiding principle of his administration: “The duty of a president is to put this nation’s own citizens first. That’s why my administration swears by two simple, but crucial rules, buy American and hire American.” His twilight struggle with the Democrats over the future of the nation, or whether the nation will even have a future at all, is coming down to the question of whether that principle will be upheld and defended, or consigned forever to the dustbin of history.
Trump drew the battle lines sharply at Whirlpool, charging that “on the question of foreign trade, previous leaders were guided by a shameful policy of capitulation, submission, and retreat…. For decades, you watched as politicians let foreign nations steal our jobs, loot our factories, and plunder the crown jewels of the US economy….For eight years, Whirlpool begged the Obama-Biden administration who did nothing to protect American workers from the flagrant dumping of foreign washers, dryers into America. But your cries for help fell on deaf ears. You didn’t see any action. They didn’t act, they didn’t care, and they never will.”
They didn’t care because they were among the beneficiaries of the pole-axing of American workers and the outsourcing of American industries. And it has been known for decades. That noted economist Sid Vicious sang back in 1977 about “a cheap holiday in other people’s misery,” and the leftist establishment moved quickly from cheap holidays in other people’s misery to cheap labor in other people’s misery. The labor is cheaper outside the United States, so American workers had to lose their jobs to provide low prices for rich and powerful socialist internationalists. Another farsighted economist, Bob Dylan, noticed this in 1983, singing about a woman in Brazil crafting furniture for import into the United States and “bringin’ home thirty cents a day to a family of twelve, you know, that’s a lot of money to her.”
This has been a struggle for practically as long as there has been a United States. The new book Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster details how the struggle between advocates of free trade and the supporters of high tariffs has been the key element of numerous presidential elections, including that of 1888, when the Republican platform declared: “We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection. We protest against its destruction, as proposed by the President and his party. They serve the interests of Europe; we will support the interests of America.” Republican marchers held aloft banners saying that Democratic candidate Grover “Cleveland Runs Well in England” and “We Are Not Going to Vote Away Our Wages.” They argued that lowering tariffs would mean the end of American prosperity. Although the Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison won the election, this message didn’t exactly resonate with the American voter, who was also hearing from the Democrats that low tariffs would mean low prices.
There is much more. Read the rest here.
mortimer says
The Dems will continue their globalist policies, meaning a strategic alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, the importation of Muslims, population replacement and the exportation of American jobs to China and their economic colonies.
Biden promised to end the share-holder system. Madness.
gravenimage says
You are right, Mortimer:
“Biden says investors ‘don’t need me,’ calls for end of ‘era of shareholder capitalism'”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/09/biden-says-investors-dont-need-me-calls-for-end-of-era-of-shareholder-capitalism.html
Very troubling. As though destroying the stock market would benefit American families.
Reziac says
Never mind that every working man’s pension is invested in stocks, and every household with any savings has some invested, also in stocks. Such small accounts, albeit often held through large brokerages, are the backbone of the stock market.
Methinks it’s more a matter of “what you can’t invest, we can tax more directly”.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“As though destroying the stock market would benefit American families.”
100% correct.
Ever since corporate America ditched their defined benefit pension plans and switch to 401(k)s, the worker counts on reasonable market returns in order to supplement Social Security income and personal investments.
gravenimage says
So true, Reziac and James.
roberta says
I just dont think people in the USA can imagine the poverty that the dems want for us here. People living hand to mouth, sporadic water and electricity, poop in the streets.
I remember vendors that sold nothing but old wilting vegetables in the streets, not because there were no fresh vegetables, but that some people only had money enough to afford rotting vegetables.
Hand to mouth comes in many different economic classes (believe that or not) It seems the bottom can never be reached.
Those in the communist party living so well, driving nice cars and living in beautiful houses. While the poor cant even keep shoes on their feet. Many times I saw people going about the best they could with a sandal on one foot and a boot on the other.
Kids and adults wasting away from sniffing glue, all for a temporary respite from the misery of life. Glue is the fast train to the cemetery, it kills quick, but the hunger and the begging is over, and that is what they really are looking for once they put the first bag of glue to their face.
Yeah, we’ve got a seriously expensive learning curve coming our way.
J Morgan says
Poignant post, Roberta. That’s what these mobs and Democrats want. A you said, ”
Yeah, we’ve got a seriously expensive learning curve coming our way.” If they win, we certainly will. All I have is one vote, but I will use it for Trump and this great country that has been so good to me.
gravenimage says
Very grim, Roberta.
Even now, many in the West are still in denial about what Socialism really means.
infidel says
O AMERICA WHAT HAVE U DONE to yourselves? U have let immigrants enter ur politics and orchestrate mayhem and dictate terms to U. They even now run for the highest office and some of them do not have Ur best interests at heart. O AMERICA …Why are U allowing immigrants to vote immediately after they become citizens? Leave alone that? WHY ARE U ALLOWING THEM TO RUN FOR UR HIGHEST OFFICES after they become citizens?
I have outlined my suggestion on this forum:
There should be a min 6 yr waiting time after they become citizens before they can vote in any election.
(They can be non-voting citizens)
And there must be a further 6 yr waiting time b4 they can run for local and senate.
And another 5 yrs after that b4 they can run for the highest offices of POTUS and VP.
O AMERICA ,.., Will U ever wake up out of this self inflicted stupidity!!
infidel says
I forgot to add:
Any crimes they commit during this waiting time.. they disqualify themselves.. PERIOD!!
Reziac says
Only a natural-born citizen can lawfully be President. But otherwise I agree with you.
If our existing laws were enforced, NO Muslim could immigrate, let alone hold office, because they are pledged to a higher duty of overthrowing our Infidel government.
Francis Weber says
Google Lima Declaration, COVID-19 might just put an end to it here in Australia.
R Thomasson says
@Mortimer and @Gravenimage. Yesterday, I bought in a local store a LED lamp “made by Phillips”. I was willing to pay a higher price as a guarantee for a good product. Close inspection showed that the only “quality” Phillips could stand for, was …the box with the name Phillips on it. All the rest was compatible to the cheapest lamps Made in PCR, sold for 25% of the price. The Chinees factory didn’t even work directly for Phillips. The production line was outsourced. Not so long-ago Phillips had thousands of people working in their factories in Western Europe. This is how NWO money-vampires conduct their globalist policies for decades; with full blessings of the DEMS. Together with their Dem alliance, they could keep their economic mess destruction of USA and Europe for years. The only products line they could not ruin in Europe, is the German White domestic products. People (especially in Third World countries) had kept on buying the more expensive German washing machines, refrigerators, stoves etc. They trust their sublime quality. Outsourcing to low-wages country will mean for Bosch, Bauknecht, AEG etc. end story. The Dems and their NOW-bosses ARE NOT INTERESTED IN AMERICAN FAMILIES. Money Vampire need to suck their voters to the last cent they have. This is how the Kalergi-Plan was born. To hold it on schedule, they need the alliance of the Muslim Brotherhood, mass import of Muslims from worlds garbage bins; as Somalia and Eritrea. Population replacement and the exportation of American jobs to China and their economic colonies are scheduled. Muslim Obama and Bill Clinton (“Lolita Express” good buddy) are the useful NWO-idiots. President Donald Trump means for this rotten bunch BAD NEWS. A president who has principles as buy American, hire American stands as a threat on their way.
gravenimage says
I try to buy American, but sometimes there are no options. At the least, I try to avoid imports from Dar-al-Islam.
OLD GUY says
The far left and the liberal illegal immigration policies are destroying America. Why would you open your home to people who hate you or want to take everything you own including your life? If we are not careful this country of America will no longer be the country our fathers and grandfathers fought to defend. It is being taken over by the ideologies they fought against.
Terry says
It was my understanding that the immigration open border agenda was planned many decades ago by self-appointed world royalty, socialist leaders et al. The issue was always over population. Population control was the goal “to save the planet”. To achieve population reduction they began in the West. Included were: Planned Parenthood; decrease life expectancy by drug addiction and/or suicide due to despair by lack of job opportunities; destruction of the family unit; and shame people into having as few children as possible by propaganda on false climate change data…..They were successful. Western population counts have dropped to where we are now below replacing ourselves. Implementation of the second phase is to open the borders of Europe and the US and begin redistribution of overpopulated developing countries. Once here, these immigrants would get indoctrinated to abort their babies and adopt the same life style propaganda that was used to decrease our numbers. One of these self-proclaimed messiahs is a U.S.billionaire who promoted vaccines through his foundation that were given to people in Africa and India with disastrous effects on those vaccinated. International outrage ensued. BTW: his daddy ran Planned Parenthood. All of this can only be achieved by a one world government and the reason for Trump derangement syndrome.
gravenimage says
How is avoiding dying from polio a “disastrous effect”? Why would preventing children from dying from smallpox and polio entail “international outrage”? The only people I ever saw outraged over these vaccinations have been pious Muslims, who consider them “un-Islamic”.
And I must have missed that whole thing where people were committing suicide right and left over that close to record low employment rate of 3.5% (as it was in February)…
Terry says
Dying from polio is disastrous. However, in 2017 the WHO admitted that the global explosion in polio is predominantly vaccine strain. It was found that the epidemics in Congo, Afghanistan, and the Philippines are all linked to vaccines. It was reported that in 2018, 70% of global polio cases were vaccine strain. In 2009, the Gates Foundation funded tests of experimental HPV vaccines, developed by (GSK) and Merck on 23,000 young girls in remote Indian provinces. Approx. 1,200 suffered severe side effects, including autoimmune and fertility disorders. For details do a search for this article: “The Bill Gates Effect: WHO’s DTP Vaccine Killed More Children in Africa Than the Diseases it Targeted.” (from the Children’s Heath Defense).
With respect to suicide rates, this is not a reference to the COVID crisis. Suicides among the young have risen 33% since 1999. Drug overdose deaths rose 72% in a decade. These numbers along with abortion on demand have contributed to the decreasing life expectancy for the last three years. Outsourcing of American jobs and students saddled with the prospect of decades of debt repayment have led to despair and part of the reason for the youth crisis. Of course, this was always part of the plan….which Trump disrupted by “America First” and “bring jobs home”.
Population reduction was planned decades ago and Gates is one of the players. BTW: you might want to check Event 201 held on Oct 2019… (A COVID 19 coincidence?)
shoehorn says
Commie bin Biden sided with USSR against Reagan and takes the side of Islamic terrorists; generally wrong about everything.
https://freemannews.com/2020/08/12/ronald-reagan-actually-warned-the-world-about-biden/
gravenimage says
And here’s Biden suggesting that Americans enforce Shari’ah law–although he probably doesn’t understand what this means:
“Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls out Biden for quoting Muhammad pronouncing Sharia law in remarks to Muslim voters”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ayaan-hirsi-ali-biden-sharia-law-muslim