Re: How and Why Grifters Milk The System.

On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:38:32 -0600, chrisv <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Cy Ubinger wrote:
>
>> Collectivists_Always_Fail wrote:
>>> Governor Swill wrote:
>>>> Collectivists_Always_Fail wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Indeed... Competition drives improvement.  We just re-evaluated our
>>>>> health insurance and switched to one that served our needs better.
>>>>> Thank goodness that we're not locked into non-competitive government
>>>>> health insurance....   or grocery stores...
>>>>
>>>> Exactly.  Pity we now have economic competition from so many
>>>> countries.
>
>Not a "pity", although the Asians are now kicking our asses...

I was being sarcastic actually.  Since at least WWI the US has striven
to teach the world to operate on our principles of freedom and
competition.  This is a better way of surviving than the philosophy of
warring to take what one's neighbor has instead of creating your own.

I find it interesting that so many Americans these days, after decades
of fighting communism and exalting freedom, now complain that those
student nations are too free and too productive.
 
>>> It's good that we're moving back to competing.
>
>Are we?
>
>>The U.S. will never again be competitive in manufacturing.
>
>Probably not, for most things.  China has now got the infrastructure,
>and the supply chain, and the labor force, and the government
>facilitation.  It's not even close, as to who can do it better and
>cheaper.

Our lead has moved to other areas.  High tech, information services,
financial services.  Consider the British Empire ended nearly a
century ago yet London remains a great center of finance.  Only New
York City exceeds it in that sphere.

High tech development, innovation, services - we create and farm out
the manufacture to others.

The essential freedoms of thought and action inherent in American
systems of education, business and culture will always keep us ahead
of dictatorships like Venezuela, China or Russia.  

We are free to think outside the box.  They are not.
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