There are greedy people who will always do bad things in order to make money, and nothing that they say justifies what they do. We need to rise, and live by what we know is right, and be a shining city on a hill.
We need to do what is right no matter what. No excuses.
We had slavery and it took a war to end it. And we had child labor. And then as people in the USA got child labor laws, and labor unions, and good labor laws such as the 8 hour day, and the 40 hour work week, as things got better in the USA then the greedy companies moved to other nations which do not have all of the great rules such as the USA.
I tried for decades to fight for better human rights in China, and I wanted fair pay and good treatment for the people of China. I even had a Chinese roommate in Malibu who was the daughter of a general in China and I tried to get her to stand for good human rights for the people of China. And I told her, the jobs are leaving the USA and Americans are unemployed and suffering. She told me that we need to be wise or there is going to be a blood-bath. Neither one of us want war, so it will take wisdom and patience to improve our relationship with China and for the people of China to have better human rights and fair pay for workers.
I tried to appeal to the goodness in people, and I tried to use ethics in order to help to save jobs in the USA while helping the Chinese workers and balancing things out, but that did not work, the situation has gotten worse and our streets are full of homeless people. And the problem is just getting worse by the day.
Meanwhile we have ships lined up off of our shore with imports and that is where our power is, we control the ports.
We need to put high tariffs on imports, and we need to use the money to educate the people of the USA and to train the people of the USA for the jobs of the future. We can use the tariff money to educate our people, and to help our people to rise. And tariffs encourage local production.
We also need to make our immigrants legal, and we need to fix our immigration law to make it easier for our good neighbors to become legal.
We also need to help Latin America, and we need to invest in ports in Mexico. And we need to make it legal for Canadian and Mexican truck drivers to drive in the USA.
We cannot use hard times to justify lowering our standards and to justify doing bad things out of desperation, nor to justify doing bad things to the Chinese workers or to other people. We need to rise, and we need to be good people and civilized people.
Salute,
Tony V.
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