Hello Ann, <<Pullman>> built a city based on his idealism: quality housing (electricity/water/sewage), free schooling, open space/parks, shops, health clinic, etc;
... and insisted on quality work on his rail cars.
I understand your feeling about outsourcing, globalization, and the 'let's go for the last dime of profit' of malignant capitalism.
I live in Hong Kong, deflation central, where the capitalism is recognized around the world as the 'freest', meaning as close to pure distilled capitalism as can be.
There are negatives, and there are positives. The reason folks here have so far been able to cope with it all is because all understand the rules and expect little government intervention nor, when the chips are down, desire government intervention.
The problematic issue in the US may be that the folks in aggregate do not understand the changing rules, are not prepared for the new reality, think they can influence the government to change the rules, without realizing, until it is too late, that there is preciously little the government can do without becoming too big a government and in the process also do serious damage to all that which is worthwhile while trying to fix the unfixable, even as it is unable to do anything about the original problem.
I do not think the dislocations and rebalancing of world trade/standard of living involve simple issues, and I do not believe governments can influence much that goes on without suffering TwoAPuc achamchen.com
Chugs, Jay |
