THE MEDIA WON
They created Obama. They could have destroyed him in a minute if they had wanted to. Instead they promoted him, covered for him and used anything they could to discredit his opponents.
What lies ahead
One really has to ask the obvious question: If Obama’s economic policies work so well, why isn’t Detroit a paradise? In 1950, America produced 51% of the GNP for the entire world. Of that production, roughly 70% took place in the eight states surrounding the Great Lakes: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.
The productive capability of this small area of earth staggers the imagination. Virtually everything that rebuilt the industrial bases of Europe and Japan came from those eight states. Cars, planes, electronics, machine tools, consumer goods, generators, concrete – any conceivable item manufactured by industrial humanity poured out this tiny region and enriched the world. The region shone with widespread prosperity. People migrated from the South and West to work in these Herculean engines of industry. The wealth, power and economic dominance of the region at the time cannot be overstated. Nothing like it has existed in human history.
Yet, a mere 30 years later, by 1980, we called that area the “rustbelt” and it became synonymous with joblessness, collapsing cities, high crime, failing schools and general hopelessness.
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Posted by JonJayRay on November 5, 2008 6:02 pm
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Free trade happened to the rust belt as it did to most of America’s industrial base. It is a bit hard to compete with workers who are paid 2 dollars a day. Shipping offsets that some but not enough. If you lower you economic defenses then do not be surprised if your enemies take advantage. The same is true with you military defenses. If Obama does act for fair trade as he said then things may improve.
By the way arguing against unions on economical grounds is a fine way to loose elections. The people voted on Tuesday because they felt they were not getting paid enough for their work. That is capitalism in action as are union negotiations.
The union only became a liability after Washington, especially Carter, decided to turn away from the soft protectionism it had practiced up to that point.
At about the same time, Carter slathered the auto industry (and other industries) with massive regulation. In the case of the auto industry they were required to improve emissions, fuel economy, and safety in less time that it normally took to make a new car. Quality stumbled. All this along with the workplace safety, pollution, and EEOC requirements.
Was it alright for the Auto Industry to have gotten comfortable with the soft protectionism up to that point. Probably not. But to yank that away from that while allow prior non-competitive government requirements (aka unions) to exist while adding a bunch more. Well…
Lets just say Carter was anti-corporate (especially American corporations) and was given a break on those policies because of an undercurrent of populist contempt for the people in those industries.
The media didn’t vote. America did. And it spoke its mind.
Were it not for the media, would Obama not have won?
Can we become citizen activists and journalists to change the mainstream media? Hold them accountable by getting them on camera talking about their biases?!?! Become part of the ODM wiki and see for yourself: http://www.opendoormedia.org/wiki