Let's Tell-all about Tulsi

[Bob Butler 54]

(02-01-2020, 04:40 AM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: Well, the reason we can't do that stuff isn't because Millies are messed up or anything.  You need a healthy population, and an industrial base, and public works to build infrastructure.  So I'd credit the New Deal and businesses that actually built stuff here without all the lobbying for the WW II success.  As Trump said, Make America Great Again. So yup, make America Great Again with forbidding lobbing [really corruption/bribery] and updating the New Deal. Also, Trump is right on one thing, Globalism must die before any of this can be done. Also, the US Empire has to go. There is no industrial/worker base to sustain it.

After World War II, America had the only intact manufacturing infrastructure. We used our leverage after World War II, forbidding closed ports on colonies in order for the US to forgive the Lend Lease and similar war policies. As that rule on closed ports was followed, colonial imperialism was finished. They couldn’t hold the manufacturing jobs to the mother country by national policy. That resulted in some golden years for the US with the only intact infrastructure and the world open to export.

At that point, the government was progressive and the labor unions at their height. The working class was able to get a maximum fraction out of the manufacturing jobs. This was in many ways when America was Great, when jobs were available, and the workers got the benefit.

Then the other countries rebuilt their factories, only newer, better, and we had to compete. We cannot expect the damage to the world’s manufacturing infrastructure or the golden years for the US to come back. Neither will a few mostly European powers gain massive economic advantage through colonial imperialism, but small loss. America also spent a huge part of their budget on the military. They fell behind most rational countries in providing benefits to the people, the better to maintain a primacy they could not keep with the rest of the worlds infrastructure rebuilt.

Later, the corporations seemed to gain supremacy over the nations. The use of cheap labor abroad and the resulting increased profits for the corporations sent the manufacturing jobs overseas. All the gains of labor bargaining and costs of guaranteed benefits tended to go away as the manufacturing jobs went abroad. The elites as owners of the corporations loved it. Those who lost jobs to overseas did not.

I don’t see how the jobs could be expected to come back, but productivity has continued to go up. A program to move money back from the elites and corporations to the people seems possible. Just go after the division of wealth. With much of labor being automated these days, there are fewer job hours to go around. All sorts of things like hours per work week, when benefits are provided and the retirement age will have to be rethought to bring things back into balance.