Comments on: It’s Boom and Bust Again in Montana Mining Town
By mt don on 01-11-09
this story shows how important it is for our country to have a sensible national manufacturing and natural resource policy that doesn’t leave us trying to compete w/ 3rd world dictators (where workers are paid .30 an hour) and “social-democratic european countries that subsidize their workers and protect industry. NO not in America - it is becoming more and more that our country is opened up to the highest bidder who makes the money and then takes it out of the community. If it does trickle down - it trickles down to the communist chinese. Weren’t we raised that the communists were the devil? Now our economic leaders are in bed w/ the communists in order to make a quick buck and to heck w/ the country.
By John on 01-11-09
National policy - be it trade policy, energy policy and economic policy - must start from a foundation of what is best for the nation and the citizens of that nation. Republican policies have started from the foundation of what is best for corporations (often multi-national corporations) must somehow be best for the nation. Mt Don is right in that policies that somehow assume that American workers should just “compete” with countries with no labor standards, wages that are often cents per day, no environmental standards—or no standards at all—is insane. If the Republican vision of competition is through the elimination of standards - then the result will be a world without any standards—and that is not a world I wish to pass on to my children.
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