tbandrow
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:12 pm Post subject: Resources For Protectionism |
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Hey I'm a center - right writer for the Treatyist. I believe in American manufacturing, making things, the craftsmen and the shopworker as the basis of the genius of the American people. I think free trade is a disaster. I grew up in Ohio, watched all of its plants shut down, just watched GM Boxwood and Chrysler Newark close in Delaware where I live now, and I'm sick of all these people driving Japanese and Korean cars with little American flags on them while the country goes down the tubes.
SO I've been writing. Don't mean to plug myself, but offer some help. Getting a national message against free trade together is going to take some work and to that end we've been building a series of articles that explain how vital having a manufacturing base is to the United States. These articles and others that will follow will help turn the black is white and up is down sentiment that rules our current political thought and is driving the country into the ground.
Manhattan Then and Now
http://www.treatyist.com/gallery.aspx?gallery=manhattan&image=0
Building the atomic bomb was not a project, it was the statement of a people that made things for themselves. We couldn't do a manhattan type of project today, when we lost our ability to build.
Protectionism and the Civil War
http://www.treatyist.com/issue1/protectionismcivilwar.aspx
This page exists to correct a historical lie propagated by free traders. Free traders like to say that America has always been a free trading country. This is not true. America got rich by being protectionist and the North won the civil war because protectionism gave it the tools needed to arm General Grant's armies. The free trading south, on the other hand, could not compete.
Alabama's New Flag
http://www.treatyist.com/issue1/alabamasnewflag.aspx
This page is a good resource to rebut those free traders that like wave the flag. Republicans like to say they are free traders, but, really, they are only free trade when it comes goods made in other states. In this piece, we wonder how on earth no one called Jeff Sessions to task when the supposed party of the red white and blue defended the right of the Japanese and Koreans to set up shop in the USA.
Save General Motors
http://www.treatyist.com/issue1/onsavinggm.aspx
Alone among conservative web sites, we crossed party lines to support President Obama's plans to save GM and Chrysler with federal loans. While we mock the self serving side of supposed left wing men of the people - Nader and Moore, we point out that manufacturing is a strategic national asset that must be protected and that government policy doomed GM more than any union worker did.
The Taxpayers Own GM First
http://www.treatyist.com/issue1/big3loans.aspx
This piece rebuts the whole "bondholder getting screwed issue" that is associated with GM and Chrysler's bankruptcies. After complaining about the pensions of union workers, the WSJ turned around and dredged up one pension holder that got shafted as a result of GM bankruptcy plan. We cut to the chase and pointed out that if anyone should get their money back first, it is the taxpayer, as sovereign debt always triumphs. Therefor, the government has the right to shepherd GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy even if it means stiffing the bondholders.
We don't agree on all the issues, but, I do believe we are all of one community, and I will fight until I die until America remembers that the among the most conservative values a nation can have are self sufficiency, self reliance, and thrift, and that means we must build for ourselves, and treat with respect those of us left who can. I have spent my life waiting for the miracle of free trade to save America, and instead this country can't even make a toaster and we're all doomed to hand out stickers at Walmart.
Enough is enough. Free trade has failed, and its time to go with what worked. |
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