America Relearning Competition
By
Douglas G. Pollard Sr.
We in America have happened upon a thing called world trade competition. We have not experience it since before World War One. We don't seem to know how to handle it any more now than before 1914. For a number of years the progressive party in power here did all they could to destroy the competitive nature of our Capitalist system. They were successful enough that they were thrown out of office and the party disintegrated. It's membership hidden from view in the Democrat party and a some even jockeyed for position in the Republican party disguised as .
The War destroyed most of Europe physically and financially. There was a mass exodus of crafts men ,engineers and scientists to North and South America. There was horrendous inflation in Germany that spilled all over Europe, as a result Europeans immigrants and especially the Germans brought with them a distrust of paper money, the stock market and Government. They bought land here and gold, both of which are fairly immune to inflation.
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was so horrible and bloody that it frighted Europe out of its
wits. So in the 12920's Mussolini made his bide to take over Italy, He was a communist but called his Communism fascism. The only difference being that people were able to keep their companies but the Government controlled them and saw to it that they made money enough to pay exorbitant tax rates.
Along came Adolf Hitler in Germany. With all of Europe scared to death of the red scourge from the east and Poland having had to turned the Red Army back, Europe new it was only a time until Russia conquered Europe. They welcomed the Arming of Germany and hoped to hide beneath the Huns umbrella. After living with Germany for centuries they like all liberals had learned nothing.
In the 1920's and 30's the European and especially the German Jews came en mass embracing the stock market industry and it's compound interest and earnings. They entered all phases of the economy. They loved it, but did not trust it or Americans completely as trust had not served them well in Europe. They held back just a little, by saving Gold as mad money. They reserved the right to escape to another land and set up shop again if America suddenly turned against them. They are still hedging there bets as a people with one foot in Israel and one in the USA. This seems to be good for both countries.
During this period the Progressives have continually done their best to destroy capitalism. While the country dragged the progressive Democrats kicking and screaming every step. In spite of them it took a war to finally pull their irons out of the fire.
The world suffered through the Depression and America continued to grow in part due to this immigration. With the continuation of of the first world war in preparation for WW11 Germans frightened after remembering the disaster of the first War, began immigrated by the millions. More Jews came escaping European antisemitism almost all with experience in running businesses, sciences where a huge asset to this country.
All during these post war years we had little competition from a rebuilding Europe and that huge market for our products. We sold Europe all they could buy and gave them more credit than they could possibly pay back. As their debt mounted and their ability to pay effected our ability to sell to them a massive depression starting here and spread around the world. Sound familiar?
World war two came and went and again America was left with a an even bigger and stronger manufacturing machine, while Europe was left in rubble. We believing in ourselves manufactured the goods to rebuild, cut tariffs on European goods and we all prospered.
In the late 1960's Richard Nixon saw the danger of a Huge China Isolated with big parts of it's population starving. Nixon said it was a huge market for America. What he didn't say was that if China's situation did not change the 2 billion man yellow scourge would be seen on the march. India was in the same situation, A nuclear Russia would have to join in with China or the USA and Europe. No one knew which way they would turn. All would go nuclear! No one new which way Europe would turn as the Europeans have for centuries maintained a deep seated fear of their gargantuan neighbor to the East. That kind of nuclear war would spell destruction for the entire earth. It would be all over.
Richard Nixon and Later, Ronald Regan, would promote trade with the third world, China, India, and anyone else who had a dollar to spend and a product to sell.
They spread Capitalism world wide, as well as it's necessity for peace. None of these major trading partners can go to war with each other with out totally destroying their own economy Nixon believed..
As a result we started this beast called world trade, so the world might survive and now we have to figure out how to prosper in it. It was not started buy some other power to destroy us. We started it to save ourselves.
Over time these trading partners of ours will see increased labor costs. As time goes along we may find ourselves able to compete if we do nothing and wait, But I don't think so. There wages are increasing because they are getting more competitive in manufacture. They are using better and better machinery so that every worker is more productive. This is what we have out stip.
Their labor is so cheap that we have to manufacture with no labor at all. An automated machine can produce cheaper than they can. But our industry will still have to pay taxes, navigate through the maze of government regulation and pay employee health care for those that are still employed. These are problems that have to be solved.
The health care problem is not hard to solve if we are willing to find a capitalist solution like removing all Government controls on health insurance. This will mean that you or I can buy Health insurance any place in the world and the US that sells it. The amount it pays for our health care may pay to fly us to some other part of the world where we can get a $100,000 worth of operation for $20,000 with plane ticket and all at a cost of $30,000. Why not, this is what industry has had to do. They go elsewhere to get something done cheaply, what is wrong with that?
We are more and more an educated country and will have to be more so, why will we need somebody to negotiate our cheaper insurance for us. Why by the way would our children not buy some of their education in a cheaper country? That might have the dual effect of a cheaper education and bring prices down here as well.
With nano technology coming along we may be able to grow our own car parts instead of having them made in China. Who knows, we may even grow the whole car???
Someplace in this we will be competitive with China and at that time we will be true trading partners and safe from each other's war Machines. We and the billions of peoples over the world may have settled into a living way of life.
At this time we may well have the wealth to explore the universe, as well as the know how with the brains of the, Chinese Indians, Europeans and Russians, Africans, South Americans and we North Americans.
I will guarantee one thing. It will not be done by the combined efforts of socialism, fascism or dictatorial mandate.
I would like to live a few hundred years to see it all and remember it all started with the first American president and the idea of free and sovereign people. Do you wish the founders could see it along with our children.
Douglas Pollard
