When I first started The Command T.O.C. back in 2004 I commented how I thought it was interesting that Bush was sending kids to die yet American business was sending more and more manufacturing overseas. American business had little allegiance to America as a Country and rather moved their capital and labor dollars to any Country where they could make money. American business totally disregarding whether that Country was run by Communists or dictators or whether that Country employed slave labor or followed event he basic environmental regulations. The stock holder was to make a fortune as the American soldier died defending.. I am not sure what.
The theme has continued that Bush and his friends are getting very very rich while soldiers die and they sell out our Country to other Countries, mostly China (A communist dictatorship I might add). Now, today, we learn (on July 4th) that the new company (Cerberus Partners) which bought Chrysler is announcing they will be importing Chinese made cars (Dodges to start) by 2010. So, who are these "partners"?
Well, the chairman is none other than Mr. Danforth Quayle. Yes, you heard it. The guy who could not spell potato knows enough about business to buy Chrysler and begin moving production to China. He was the 44th Vice President of the United States serving for George W. Bush's dad.
On the board of directors is Dr. John Snow. This person, if you remember, was the current President Bush's Secretary of the Treasury. It must have been at this job where he honed his skills in shutting down US manufacturing and sending it to Communist Countries like China.
In George Bush like fashion, these executives have learned to lie directly to the camera to get what they want. In an interview reported by Business Week, John Snow remarked that they bought Chrysler as a way to help participate in "saving American manufacturing." Perhaps someone could tell me how building cars in China "saves" American manufacturing.
So, I ask you, what exactly are our soldiers dying for over in Iraq? When they come home, what will they be coming home to? It appears the answer to that question is they will be coming home to see some small group of people who have become very wealthy from those soldiers losing their limbs and their friends and comrades losing their lives.
Oh, and finding jobs, well, there will clearly be opportunities in the executive lunch rooms serving salad and then working for the contractor at night cleaning floors. That $30 per hour manufacturing job and middle class "way of life" you thought you were defending? You are going to come home and find it is nowhere to be found. Your Country will have been pillaged and you, a soldier thinking you were doing your duty, were an unlikely participant in helping these robber barons.
BTW, I predict this will start a flood. There is no way, anyway, the American Car Business can compete with $1.00 per day labor. As they perfect the manufacturing process and "error proof" the processes, the labor arbitrage will take over. Once it does, it is like a snowball going down hill. There will be no way to stop it.
The "free markets" will have taken over and the lesson is that if a business can find a Country which employs slave labor and does not require you to follow any basic regulations, it will take advantage of that situation. Yeah, who needs government regulation?