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myredracer
Nov 27, 2014Explorer II
In and of itself, Chinese interests buying a small RV company are pretty insignificant and instead you need to look at the overall big picture of what China is doing.
We' been exporting jobs to China for years now. We in North America are our own worst enemies. We always gripe about the high cost of living and the cost of all sorts of goods but nobody hesitates to buy the lower cost foreign good on the store shelves, whether it's ladies clothing, household appliances, tools, and just about anything else you can think of. If you talk to an economist, they will tell you it's simply the new world economic order and that people here just don't want all those low paying, unskilled and labor intensive jobs. I'm not so sure about that. Our standard of living has gradually been eroding away right before our eyes and nobody seems to notice and the governments let it happen. To be fair though, it's not just China either, there's the rest of Asia and elsewhere around the world.
With all those jobs we've been sending away, they need raw resources to fuel their economy and we have no problem selling to them because the politicians say the income from it is good for us. Worse yet, is that they can come and buy an entire oilfield like in the Alberta Oil sands to have 100% control of it. Oil sand ownership And does anyone care what the impact of their consumption of this on the environment especially when you include extraction and consumption of coal, iron ore, lumber, etc? The overall global impact from this on the environment is staggering. Our BC provincial gov. has now given the green light for exporting LNG overseas which concerns me.
I think the US and Canadian governments need to wake up and take a stand otherwise our way of life as we know it today will continue to be eroded and the Chinese tentacles will continue to grow around the world. Personally, I don't hold much hope for future generations unless drastic changes are made to protect jobs, the economy, the environment and raw resources. This whole topic is very complex and this isn't exactly the right forum and there isn't enough space for it here. Each and every one of should be concerned.
We' been exporting jobs to China for years now. We in North America are our own worst enemies. We always gripe about the high cost of living and the cost of all sorts of goods but nobody hesitates to buy the lower cost foreign good on the store shelves, whether it's ladies clothing, household appliances, tools, and just about anything else you can think of. If you talk to an economist, they will tell you it's simply the new world economic order and that people here just don't want all those low paying, unskilled and labor intensive jobs. I'm not so sure about that. Our standard of living has gradually been eroding away right before our eyes and nobody seems to notice and the governments let it happen. To be fair though, it's not just China either, there's the rest of Asia and elsewhere around the world.
With all those jobs we've been sending away, they need raw resources to fuel their economy and we have no problem selling to them because the politicians say the income from it is good for us. Worse yet, is that they can come and buy an entire oilfield like in the Alberta Oil sands to have 100% control of it. Oil sand ownership And does anyone care what the impact of their consumption of this on the environment especially when you include extraction and consumption of coal, iron ore, lumber, etc? The overall global impact from this on the environment is staggering. Our BC provincial gov. has now given the green light for exporting LNG overseas which concerns me.
I think the US and Canadian governments need to wake up and take a stand otherwise our way of life as we know it today will continue to be eroded and the Chinese tentacles will continue to grow around the world. Personally, I don't hold much hope for future generations unless drastic changes are made to protect jobs, the economy, the environment and raw resources. This whole topic is very complex and this isn't exactly the right forum and there isn't enough space for it here. Each and every one of should be concerned.
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