(10-11-2025, 11:09 PM)cherokeetroy Wrote: Everyone wants a piece of the United States and a lot of foreign investors have gotten the lion's share thanks to our sell out politicians
I think the underlying. concern is people want to see policies that align with America First
I had a Sony AM FM radio in the sixties, I used it till the mid seventies, then it got put in a box in my parents garage for thirty years, I found it when cleaning out their garage when they died. It would still be working if I hadn't let the batteries in it, someday I should take it apart and try to fix it up again, it is just the battery compartment that is messed up...the battery connections are corroded off.
In the sixties and early seventies I had to not take that radio out to the beach, because there was lots of bias against Japanese junk in our area, even though that radio was made real good.
My first motorcycle was a Honda, got lots of flack for owning that too, but it was a great bike, it was a 305 Honda superhawk. Till I bought my Subaru, all of my cars were American made, I carried bias programming against foreign made things for a long time. I still prefer American made stuff, but usually American made just means it was assembled in America or part of it was assembled in the USA. So I figured I would buy the completely made forester from Japan before I died. My 305 honda superhawk was a sixty seven and I bought it used in seventy three for a couple hundred bucks. From sixty seven to 2020 was a lot of years. Nowadays made in Japan is usually good quality.
Not much is produced in the USA totally anymore, that is most likely why Social Security is in so much trouble. Even if it is made in America totally, it probably was largely produced by immigrants that are not citizens.
Our country has been going down hill for a long time. There is a real lot of profit in importing goods, we could probably make stuff ourselves for close to the price we presently pay in the stores if we eliminate the profit taking by the states and high paid workers in those states that import goods.
America First should be about our own people fending for themselves, us working together to produce what we need to survive and flourish. But now our kids want college debt and jobs sitting on their butt with poor health from sitting on their butt all day. They pay to join fitness clubs, and consider those that work hard jobs that are necessary for society as inferior. I do not know how we are going to fix this, hopefully generation Z is smarter than millenials
