The fact is the sea lanes are vital to all nations. There are territorial waters
and then waters of interest. Taiwan is considered Chinese territory by China
not the rest of the world. In this case we decided to become beholden to the
Chinese during the Reagan Bush era and now we are stuck with the situation.
Large corporations that pose as American, Canadian and so on diverted their
financial interest to employ slave labour or the equivalent of slave labour so we
could have cheap running shoes.
The people are their own worst enemy. These companies are about money
period. No patriotism, no social conscience, and no sense of responsibility.
To boot the people are behind them because the retirement money is invested
in them. Even if they rip us off, behave like something lower than pirates and
put us out of work we support them.
In addition we cozy up to dictators and monsters giving them incredible power
over our way of life and then we are offended when they won't play by the rules.
We have done this with commerce, with immigration and with the social structure
of our society.
It is not Obama entirely here, it is us collectively in North America. We have the
resources, the education, and all the ingredients of make the best of everything.
What do we do? We let our companies and our governments turn our advantage
over to foreign interests and then we complain. But before we complain we need
to understand The Republicans re-wrote the rules to deregulate and streamline
things for business and now we are paying the price. We need to regain control
of our interests both at home and abroad.