Y'know ... a few months from now ...

Y'know ... a few months from now (not even years, let alone decades or centuries) the new wizards will be 'splaining to us how "we" allowed "that" bunch of brilliant idiots (the global financial services sector) to transfer our productive wealth (which is the real source of modern wealth -- the historical sources being property, natural resources, and SLAVE labor) to China ... and thereby giving their workers the opportunity to learn the skills our workers perfected in establishing our extraordinary manufacturing base in WWII and the Eisenhower years ... while our workforce was allowed to atrophy.

I have nothing against Chinese workers becoming skilled, but not by the direct transfer of the production capability that our workforce had as much a hand in creating as anyone else including the financial gurus ... without so much as a fare-thee-well to our workforce.

(Doesn't anyone stop and think about what the free workforce and citizen military of these United States accomplished in WWII? ... that our current leadership is pi$$ing away?!!! Turning us into a banana republic.)

I think it's this obsession with money as if "money" were a commodity.

For the middle and working classes our strength has never been "money". It is skill in the production or distribution of goods and services that have value (others want in exchange for what they have to offer us) in the marketplace ... a marketplace that has sensible rules, by the way, like standard weights and measures.

If government -- as one of its legitimate functions -- safeguards an orderly market for its citizens, free citizens will do the rest. (Like, why are so many businesses and citizens leaving New Jersey, Governor Corzine?)

We are selling (giving away?) the seed corn ... labor skills that are a huge part of what makes ordinary people free ... because they are valuable to employ. Of course, we need a nation that protects the rights of free labor as much as it protects the rights of property ... which does NOT necessarily mean unions (or what unions have become, rather).

The current crop of brilliant idiots ... 3rd and 4th generation removed from labor ... have no appreciation of the stored wealth in labor's skills ... so they blithely give it away. They are so dumb I would laugh, but they are so weakening our nation by their ignorance that it makes me want to cry.