This is the absolute truth. I used to believe in Free Trade though never in the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus. The older I get the more I understand how things really work. In Soviet times Ukraine was the centre of their space industry among other high tech, high education industries. The best and brightest brains in the USSR were concentra…
This is the absolute truth. I used to believe in Free Trade though never in the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus. The older I get the more I understand how things really work. In Soviet times Ukraine was the centre of their space industry among other high tech, high education industries. The best and brightest brains in the USSR were concentrated there. Today, Ukraine has a booming IT industry and many entrepreneurial inventors. Russia has driven all their good scientists and engineers away and continues to do so. The sad thing is all the highly educated Ukrainian people who are dying fighting ignorant peasant Russians. Russia will remain backwards forever while Ukraine will recover.
As a Canadian, we received some benefit from Free Trade but I agree with Thom that USA must go back to Buy American First. This will require massive investments in education, social services, health and infrastructure to bring people into the 21st century and stop making American ignorance the laughing stock of the world. A few educated elites are not enough and even their education is not up to par. The tax system must be totally revamped and simplified. Your "justice" system from SCOTUS to the lowest prosecutor needs a complete overhaul.
The sad thing is that your corporate Democrats led by the DNC will never allow it. Progressives did poorly in the primaries for that reason. I have some sympathy for anarchists who have given up on incrementalism, want to smash everything and start over. Not a good plan.
There are good plans. Will anyone follow them? Where is their leader? AOC? Newsome (?) from California?
This is the absolute truth. I used to believe in Free Trade though never in the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus. The older I get the more I understand how things really work. In Soviet times Ukraine was the centre of their space industry among other high tech, high education industries. The best and brightest brains in the USSR were concentrated there. Today, Ukraine has a booming IT industry and many entrepreneurial inventors. Russia has driven all their good scientists and engineers away and continues to do so. The sad thing is all the highly educated Ukrainian people who are dying fighting ignorant peasant Russians. Russia will remain backwards forever while Ukraine will recover.
As a Canadian, we received some benefit from Free Trade but I agree with Thom that USA must go back to Buy American First. This will require massive investments in education, social services, health and infrastructure to bring people into the 21st century and stop making American ignorance the laughing stock of the world. A few educated elites are not enough and even their education is not up to par. The tax system must be totally revamped and simplified. Your "justice" system from SCOTUS to the lowest prosecutor needs a complete overhaul.
The sad thing is that your corporate Democrats led by the DNC will never allow it. Progressives did poorly in the primaries for that reason. I have some sympathy for anarchists who have given up on incrementalism, want to smash everything and start over. Not a good plan.
There are good plans. Will anyone follow them? Where is their leader? AOC? Newsome (?) from California?