Unless we want to become a Third World country, we need to make things. We have to stop the movement of all our manufacturing to China and other foreign countries. If that requires tariffs, starting with tariffs to protect industries of strategic importance, so be it. More, we need the well-paying jobs manufacturing offers to ordinary people. Many conservatives see labor as an enemy. I think that view is outdated although union's leadership continues to be a part of the leftist coalition which opposes everything we believe in. Instead of thinking of labor as the unions, we need to see it as people: as average Americans who want to be able to give their families a middle-class standard of living on one income, so mom can stay home and take care of the kids. You cannot do that with retail or most other "service" jobs. It requires manufacturing jobs.Who's going to be the "lucky" industries that get the tarriffs so the non-lucky can pay higher prices? Sounds like Paul Weyrich is an advocate of fascism.
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Paul Weyrich Gives Up on Free Market Economics
Paul Weyrich looks like he's given up on free market economics and adopted the philosophy of the AFL-CIO: