Classe move to China

Fiddler - As I read your posts I find myself wondering if your real name is NERO?

How many of you who would never consider buying Chinese made hi-end audio gear shop at Wal-Mart regularly? If you combined all the sales of Chinese made audio gear ever sold on earth since the invention of electricity, you would not match the dollar volume of Chinese products sold thru Wal-Mart in it's first ten minutes this morning.

Consider a boycott where it matters.

Mapman is right - the other shoe has dropped and we are waiting for it to hit the floor. My motto, since I became aware of the inevitability we face, has been, " I can't keep it from happening, but I might be able to keep it from happening to me". Now I'm starting to think I've been kidding myself with that one.
What happens if the Oval Office and both Houses go Republican? We could all get notices the following week that our mortgages are being called in. Instantly, we become a nation of renters. Think in terms of the quintessential coal mining community where the company owns the housing and the only place to buy anything (including food) is from the company. No money anywhere to be seen because we all work for the company and we all have charge accounts at the store that we cannot afford to pay off because our wages are scaled to keep us that way.

Somebody please, tell me why that won't happen.

And the beat goes on ................

China hasn't done anything to us. We did it to ourselves by believing Rush and his thousand clones and the Faux News propagandist blather.
We may have elected GWB twice - or we may not have - but we got the Bush-Cheney Regime nonetheless and now we are poised to get much worse.
Fiddler says his world isn't burning, maybe mine is. What he fails to recognize here, and what all the free marketers overlook, is the simple fact that it is OUR WORLD. We all live here and we all need to be concerned about how we care for our home. We need to place the well-being of our home above profits and personal ideology. We need to care about making our home as safe and sane, as compassionate and purposeful and as prosperous and kind as we can manage.
The "us vs. them" mentality and diviseness perpetuated by the 1% is deliberate. They want us blaming each other instead looking at the real problem, them.
The ultra wealthy strive to deprive their fellow citizens of unemployment benefits they were legally required to pay into. They refer to the mandated savings accounts we all have in Social Security as entitlements. That's like calling their cash stockpile an entitlement. It is. They are entitled to their own money just as all of us are. Why do they want to stop us from collecting our own funds?
This goes on and on.
If you lost a $65,000/yr. job, do you think it went to an illegal immigrant? Nope. The "job creators" took your job to create one in Asia for 15% of what they were paying you.
Classe may have held out as long as they could before surrendering to the reality that we would find another alternative rather than pay what it costs to make the stuff in Canada. So it was China or Chapter 11.
OOPS!! Does Canada have Chapter 11?

Fiddler - For starters you need to know that you are not the wealthy we are talking about. You aren't big enough to sniff their socks. Those people have 25 employees in each of their nine homes, three complete flight crews and a staff and crew totaling 40 or so on both yachts. So put your dick away before the laughing starts.

Your screed matches in tone, temperature and terminology with the crap that oozes from talk radio 24/7. You don't sound original, you don't write well and you offer no actual facts or figures other than whatever Rush says.

This country is heavily populated with people who worked hard all their lives and did everything right only to have their pensions subsumed, their mortgages devalued and their hearts broken by those who you so haughtily defend.

If you do the math, you'll find that it is not possible for everyone to be above average, no matter how hard they work or how often they go to church. Every winner has reached that position by overcoming other strivers. That does not mean that the "losers" trained less or lacked ambition. It means that only one person could win the race.

The "black or white" arguments planted in narrow minds by fatuous on-air bigots are simple enough to understand and memorize, as you've demonstrated here, but the actual world we all occupy is more complicated. There are nuances and mitigating circumstances and degrees of difficulty. There are real consequences just as there are real rewards. Your cockiness and smug condescension may put you in a very uncomfortable position one of these days. You would be wise to work on your humility because you have every right and reason to be humble.

Fiddler - Your writing has improved but you need to work on comprehension. I thought I made it clear that I don't care who gets rich but I do care how they do it. Buying my legislators out from under me because they can afford to invest in that way and the corrupt SCOTUS had made it legal for them to do so, is what bothers me. Having to listen to ridiculous rants about the level playing field from people who will do anything in their power to tilt it in their direction disgusts me.
What's The Huffington Post?