"You didn't build that" - Obama

[theprof00]

badgenome said:

theprof00 said:

As far as my feelings on it, look at Ralph Lauren, making our national uniforms in China. Now China is leading with gold medals. I know it sounds silly, but what the fuck are we doing as a country? We're giving them everything, sorry, the capitalists are giving them everything. The only solution here seems to be "become China", and that scares me.

What do those two things have to do with each other, or with anything at all for that matter? China is leading with gold medals (who cares?), and we... gave that to them along with our seamstress jobs?

You're right, though. That does sound silly.

Their ability to compete comes from their infrastructure. It comes from them doing well financially and economically, and all we do is pour more and more coffers into their pockets. It's not just our seamstress jobs, it's every manufacturing job, and not only that, but with all the turn-key partnerships we have with them, we are technologically advancing them faster than anyone else. But maybe you're simply not aware of important details like that.