Do any of you remember 1992? NAFTA...the beginning of the end of US manufacturing

[japetus]

Have you been there? Have you ever done business with them? Have you looked at the development China has been able to achieve in the past 20 years instead of squandering it on BS like the US does with all it's money?

Literally half the people in the 23 million public jobs in the US have worthless jobs that do nothing but suck up tax money. Everyone in those jobs participates in pension scams to the tune of hundreds of billions every year. How much money we funnel over to places like Ukraine for scams amounts to more than the entire defense budget of China.

Pretty much the entirety of our government and public apparatus is rotten to the core at this point. Not saying China doesn't have corruption, but they have a much stronger sense of Nationalism that facilitates at least some functions of their policy and government to develop the nation for the good of China. We don't have that in the US anymore. We have people all out for themselves with no real rules or sense of national identity to contain those actions so those actions just go where ever, they aren't retained within the country so the plebs get to feed at the trough or get to eat the scraps. There is no impetus in the US anymore for the political system to move in a way that benefits it's citizens at least in some form. China does have that impetus in their political system.

Yes, I have.

 

[VonBonfire]

I guess NAFTA means Mexican Fender and EVM12's.

 

[japetus]

I guess NAFTA means Mexican Fender and EVM12's.

Those mex Fender Deluxe from the early 00's are sleepers..with a evm they probably would sound killer

 

[VonBonfire]

Those mex Fender Deluxe from the early 00's are sleepers..with a evm they probably would sound killer

Yeah no doubt. Stock Jensens are crap IMO.

 

[JackBootedThug]

Meh we supposedly nuked Japan and then made them a manufacturing goliath buying them new factories meanwhile our own country became less business and manufacturing friendly. I remember all the tv and stereos shifting production over there and my grandpa and greatest generation types were furious. They should've rioted then. So the selling out was basically complete before the 60's ended but everyone was too busy smoking weed and screwing to notice I guess.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

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As Granddaughter to those from both sides of that conflict; can confirm Elmo's doubt. It was an unseasonably warm August in 1945.

...o yurushi kudasai baa-baa

 

[japetus]

Kevin Nash remembers 92...

 

[JackBootedThug]

As Granddaughter to those from both sides of that conflict; can confirm Elmo's doubt. It was an unseasonably warm August in 1945.

...o yurushi kudasai baa-baa

x2.....pretty interesting article on how the japanese diet saved many lives after the atomic bombs. apparently a seaweed soup that is a staple as well as the seaweed additives provided tons of natural immunity to the radiation. I need to find it.

 

[japetus]

As Granddaughter to those from both sides of that conflict; can confirm Elmo's doubt. It was an unseasonably warm August in 1945.

...o yurushi kudasai baa-baa

Still never going to forget...

 

[harddriver]

Yes those fuckers sold this country out just like every president since...

Yes the did and Yes they continue to do so.

 

[84superchamp]

I guess NAFTA means Mexican Fender and EVM12's.

It’s common enough that almost everyone knows what MIM stands for.
I think Perot would have made a great president but like someone said, the press seemed to hate him (or ignore him) and he just dropped out of the picture….shortly after the comment “I’m all ears”.

 

[Floyd Eye]

It’s common enough that almost everyone knows what MIM stands for.
I think Perot would have made a great president but like someone said, the press seemed to hate him (or ignore him) and he just dropped out of the picture….shortly after the comment “I’m all ears”.

Metal Injection molded. They say those parts hold up as well as forged steel parts, but you know, they also say Behringer is as good as Ampeg and Squier is as good as Fender. Still, plenty of people buying Turkish 1911s and, egad, Hi-Points.