Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Fareed: Biden's economic plan much better than Trump's approach" video.

  1. Dear Mr Zakarai, First, our thoughts and prayers go out for all the people of your country and in the world at large who are at this minute clinging on or barely hanging on between life and death with the most deadly and unbelievably infectious Coronovirus the world has ever known. This virus is going to leave a battlefield of survivors with life-long injuries that are horrific in scale and intensity. In the European country I live in lockdown has officially ended, but no one is buying it that we’re through with the virus. With autumn and the winter flu virus coming round the bend, one can only hold one’s breath to see how the Covid-19 virus will piggy-back the usual winter - hell-on-wheels - virus we have to fight through every winter. My main point however is Biden’s plan to reinvigorate manufacturing in America. Of course, it’s a great plan, but Fareed, isn’t it pathetic how manufacturing got derailed in the US and all the good jobs and inventions and technology shipped off overseas for the promise of big bucks to factory owners who wiped their hands of having to do anymore work while their workforce descended into poverty. No one blinked an eye in your country or anybody’s country. Next door in France, 35 years ago, everything was produced in the country. Then comes the promise that it’s twice as cheap to produce your tires in X country and off goes 3,000 jobs and all of the support industries and local businesses that go bust and again: no one says a word. Why? Because in capitalism we pat someone on the back for becoming rich at the expense of others. For Biden to announce he’ll be bringing back jobs to the ghost-town survivors still hanging on in the mid-west and other areas is a mind-numbing wake-up call to all of us that just because someone can make a product one produces in a community and it can be produced somewhere else for half the price, we can’t take the bait one more time. We’ve got to remind ourselves that it dumbs down one’s whole country. We’re reduced to making become a bunch of service-sector morons delivering products that should have been made in our own countries in the first place. We are slaves to a system that systematically stabs the middle class in the back anytime big-time profits can be made. It’s not the fault of the elites; money is something that is beyond our ability to handle as human beings. Money will make people sell out their country, because becoming rich trumps any sort of empathy for others. Goods that are not made in other countries are so rare anymore that people will actually make fun of anyone who tries to produce a product in his or her own region. We have been bamboozled and the wool has been pulled over our eyes. Whole manufacturing towns and regions have gone over the cliff. Sadly, no politician will ever wrong someone who moved his enterprise to a cheaper-producing country. Who has been laughing all the way to the bank as their new buildings and infrastructure gleam in the setting sun of the dying West?
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