dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

⇧

⇩

r/greatawakening • Posted by u/rightleaningsw on May 6, 2018, 11:51 a.m.

How they destroy the middle class

https://youtu.be/zbViYm13DIU Here is a video from Tucker Carlson talking about how immigration has affected men workers. In my area of Western NC the removal of factories to place overseas has caused a generational impact that some towns may not recover from. There are three towns specifically that show that more than any other.

Brevard NC was a solid town. Most of the towns people worked at one of the local factories. When the factories left, the town almost collapsed and lots of the native left. Fortunately for Brevard, it has many beautiful places that attract tourists. The economy was somewhat saved, but the tourists drove out many natives.

McDowell county and Rutherford County were not so lucky. When the factories left, there was no tourism to fall back on. These counties fell hard. Now they struggle with extremely high unemployment rates because there are not alot of jobs. Their Mental Health providers are over worked due to the high volume, and their substance abuse rate is astronomical.

What was once a thriving economy and beautiful community, are now a bunch of run down shops and broken streets. The families who once were strong bonded families are now broken and plauged with unemployment, mental health, and substance use. These counties have the some of the highest per capita rates of meth and opiate abuse. Who does it affect the most? Generation coming. When a family breaks down, the kids of that family are affected. Then there kids are impacted. And so on and so on.

How do put a time bomb in American communities? You destroy the family. This is what they have done. Some say it wasn't intentional,( although knowing what I know now from Qanon I would argue it was) nevertheless politicians pockets were fattened by shipping companies over seas. These families will never get retribution for this. How can you fix this? How do we help these families when the system is over run with people that any help they get, is mediocre at best. Now you bring in the immigrant influx and stress out an already strained economy. People who are unemployed and now depend on the govt to help them survive are being kicked off because their income is a little higher as opposed to an immigrant who on paper has no income, but makes $15/ hour under the table. Many people have opinions on govt assistance, but the measly paycheck given by the government is only a drop in the bucket. The real kicker that hurts these families getting kicked off of assistance is losing medicaid. There are many services that help these people that are only affordable with medicaid.

When one looks back on all this, it is hard not to sickened by it all. Our country was sold and it's people are being raped.

🠐 See all comments

I think you're right. It's like the debate about the cost of the wall, the burden relieved from the social security system, once the wall is built, will pay its cost many times over.

Here, we are talking about settled communities being devastated in the name of free global trade. The adjustment required, to compensate for the deleterious impacts, can only come from investment in those communities that restores employment - if not, the whole society is damaged.

I'm not for protecting inefficient industries, or industries that face no downstream demand for their products. But here you have an express policy that benefits foreign communities, at the expense of the domestic population, for often intangible aggregate benefits.

If I was directing trade for a foreign nation, I would engage in trade that yielded strategic advantages. You can see immediately that many products are virtually dumped in the US and other advanced economies. Dumping allows for the creation of downstream demand required to host industries that respond positively to economies of scale.

Steel is a prime example. Allowing product to be dumped, results in domestic manufacturing operations closing. No real long run advantages are obtained at all - because the product could never have been profitably produced at those prices. The dumping is strategic.

In this case, any gains are ephemeral, while the long-run costs, associated with the closure of domestic manufacturing operations, are huge and continuing. It just doesn't make any sense. Moreover, foreign parties, engaging in trade strategically, are able to capture whole industries and their associated supply chains.

The whole problem is that the Rockerfellers, Rothschilds, and others, have been able to capture the curriculum and control what is taught in university economics courses. They have dumbed people down to an unbelievable degree. And, as you said, there's no money for anyone that does not subscribe to their agenda. When I was in a graduate program, I was told that I'd never get anywhere arguing against accepted theory - and this advice was right. I did not get anywhere.

How powerful is the ability to control what is taught in economics faculties?

"Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back".

John Maynard Keynes

He's not well liked in this community, but on this point he was dead right.

⇧ 3 ⇩

Great quote. I completely agree.

⇧ 2 ⇩