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The thing to understand when it comes to our trade relations with China is this: we manufacture, or American companies manufacture, a wide varieties of goods and services inside the nation of China. China then provides us relatively cheap manufacturing services. That should be a reasonable international trade agreement. But it is corrupted by the fact that the Chinese peg their currency, which means that they are keeping the cost of production in China distinctly lower than it would otherwise be. So, the natural balancing of increased demand for production in China should be the Chinese currency rising which would then make the cost of production go up which would then cause production to come back to America, or at least become more competitive. The Chinese do not want that to happen nor, more importantly, do the US multinationals that manufacture in China, which is why they lobby, US multinationals lobby American politicians to encourage, or at least tolerate, the Chinese currency rigging. That, once you understand it, is outrageous.

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America was founded on the belief that we could be far better than our European predecessors, who, rather than trapping capital inside of a small number of families-- none of the custodians in those families having any capacity, authority, creativity, or incentive to do anything meaningful with that capital other than maintain their own lifestyles and deprive the economy of the use of that capital---America was built to be antithetical to that dynamic. America was built to create pools of capital that are liquid and available so that the best ideas in the world could be brought in against that capital and deployed to solve food systems, to solve transportation systems, to solve technology systems. That is the exact reason why we have an estate tax; in order to prevent dumb money and dumb people from being on top of huge pools of capital and in order to empower the best, the brightest, the most aggressive people in our economy the greatest opportunities to get their paws on resources so that they can solve our critical problems.   #dylanratigan   #therealratigan   #estatetaxes   #taxes  

ACA supporters say Ratigan should be thankful

Infowars.com November 8, 2013

Former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan took to Twitterto complain that his current health care plan is being cancelled and replaced with a new policy that will cost over 350% more…

It's real life Will McAvoy, ladies and gents. This guy gives me a little hope in our society. First step in solving a problem, is recognizing there is a problem. I love how the women try to "get him" with their questions, but he's not ignorant, he knows his shit and you bet he has a goddamn answer, and it's a well thought out one at that. I don't care if you're a Republican, Democrat, or an Obama fan, what he's saying is true. I'm literally learning about this in my human rights/sociology/anthropology class, which the textbook is still dated in the 2000s. Why can't we learn from history? Stupid analogy, but it's like the abused going back to the abuser. We're only hurting ourselves, refusing to admit there is a problem, and we're getting no where close to solving it.