What we gave away.... U.S. surrenders to Free Trade...
World War 2 lost 50 years later - U.S. had the greatest industrial might in
the history of the world.
It won the war. We gave it away to the world.
(The way we were......This
is from an Army Officer's Manual from 1950)
A Geopolitical overview of USA
industrial capabilities and natural resources.
Before World War 2, the average industrial worker
in America was provided with a machine which added 6.4 horsepower to his efforts. Our closest competitor in the industrial
world was Germany. They, had only 2.61 horsepower per worker in industry, followed by England with 2.56, Canada with
2.17, Italy with 2.14 and France with 1.78.
Manufacturing in the U.S. employed more than a fourth of our population
and provides more than a fourth of our national income. Its products are sufficient
to supply domestic needs and account for three-quarters of our exports. Our most important industries are automobiles,
steel and iron, airplanes, cotton textiles, meat packing and oil refining. In another part of the manual, it tells how
the U.S. was fortunate being self-sufficient in oil since the Middle East represented a place where any wars would be would
be very difficult to control.
Great as American industry was before the war, its magnificent
performance as the "arsenal of democracy" amazed even Americans. It turned out more than three times as much war
material as Great Britain and the U.S.S.R combined, not only providing our Army and Navy with unprecedentedly powerful support,
but making heavy contribution to the armed forces of our Allies.
The United States probably comes as close to being
self-sufficient as any nation can.
To maintain our strong position from now on, we must consolidate our strengths
and compensate for our weaknesses.
There were about 6,000,000 farms, employing a fifth of the population and furnishing
a tenth of the national income. We were producing more than half of the world's oil and had forty percent of the
worlds' oil reserves. We did not need to import oil and not worried about protecting our interests in the Middle East.
Now we are involved in many wars there and causing revolutions not knowing if we are making conditions there better or worst
.
..... This is what the U.S. government gave away. In 1956, the U.S. Federal Government sponsored the
moving of factories outside of the U.S. It was supposed to be a temporary program but it never ended. It first evolved into
the maquiladora factory program in Mexico and then into what is called free trade. The free traders keep defending their position
blaming protectionism was the cause of the Great Depression. However, President Roosevelt had many choices but found the major
problem was money. Few nations in the world had enough money to conduct trade. President Roosevelt said he would not
let the lack of dollars stand in his way and passed the Lend Lease Act which exported products and food to the allies without
worrying first how they would pay. This triggered the most awesome industrial might and food supplier the world has
ever known.
Search under Lend Lease was real free trade and not chop liver as in the globalist free
trade world. Pass on this article with it. It shows how the U.S. not only supplied their own needs from raw products up through
several added value stages to the retail or end user level but had the abundance to support the Lend Lease program.
This represents the largest exporting program the world has ever known. And what happen when free trade came ?
The U.S. gave it all away and in the end, we have lost World War 2 more than fifty years after the fact. Back then, those
responsible for free trade would be considered traitors. President Clinton not only passed the free trade agreements but also
gave our technology away to China and other countries in the world. In 1950 military experts said it was a good thing
we did not have to go into the Middle East to protect our interests. They did not know our government would surrender
these interests and would lack the common sense to create a geopolitical environment where the U.S. is forced to protect its
interests across the globe.
This happened, because we gave so much away for the sake of money changers and
greed, instead of protecting our way of life and showing others how to do it as the U.S. did with the Marshall Plan.
The Marshall Plan was about showing how to duplicate success and the American Dream and was not about putting workers on a
global block to compete for the same jobs. There are at least more than a billion people in the world who will work for next
to nothing. If this is the common denominator, the race to the bottom will be an unending cycle.
