Pro Commerce

We Killed the Golden Goose

I wrote about this subject a year ago in June when the Biden Swamp banned American companies from doing business in Russia. The problem with this act of incredible stupidity is best understood with your own knowledge of the internet world that has come into being since 1995. A thousand major American companies have pulled out of Russia.  Some like McDonalds were sold to local providers. Others like Adobe, Apple, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Salesforce, and SAP are very different. They are gone from Russia and none of their programs will be updated.

What differentiates the last group is that they continually provide updates of their product.  Unlike McDonalds or Ford which change over time but can still function, as are the 1950’s American cars in Cuba, the software in the post-1995 era will stop working properly without updates.

The high tech world is the Golden Goose for America.  The tech sales globally provide $1 trillion dollars annually to America.  This extraordinary income from tech is the reason the U.S. has had the longest economic growth period in two centuries of the modern economy (13 years without a business cycle recession.)

Now think for a moment whether any business in the world outside of Russia would buy the tech product of an American company. They might not get updates for the product. Many would not buy American. Especially if an alternative comes from India, Singapore or Japan.

Every business in Africa, the Middle East, India, Asia, Latin or Central America is at risk of being put on an American ‘do not do business’ list.  That is a big risk.  When a tech product from China, India, or Singapore becomes available it will be preferred to an American product.  

That is why the Biden Swamp has killed the Golden Goose.  The American State Department was unable to see this disaster; it is a bureaucracy that is part of the swamp.  

We should move the State Department to East St. Louis and create a new department of International Relations in DC.  The current State Department is so muddled it strongly opposed the creation of Israel and allowed Iranian nukes, after more than two centuries of being pro-Arab and pro-Persian.

Facts for a Lefty

There seems to be one universal reason nearly every Lefty I know says they are a Lefty: ‘the Left cares about poor people.’  I’ve heard this all my life, even from my parents.

I know that the opposite is true. 

The Left actually makes life more difficult for poor people in nearly everything the Left does. Regardless of what they say.  But I need to present verifiable facts to my friends that will help them see the reality.

The unassailable facts are to look at countries where the national policy is pro-commerce. The test is in the ownership of the major institutions such as power supplies, the oil, steel and the banking businesses.   In the pro commerce countries the per capita GDP is dramatically higher than in the socialist countries and poor people are dramatically better off in housing, food and healthcare.

Here are the pro commerce countries where poor people are much better off with the per capita GDP($000):

Singapore   $83       A country with no natural resources.

U.S.A         $76

Denmark    $67       A country with no natural resources

Israel         $55       A country with no natural resources when founded in 1948

Japan        $33       Japan is much richer but the data is flawed

Here are the socialist countries were the average person has no car, no private home and very little food or clean water:

Venezuela     $16      A million people have left this country and income has gone down

Cuba             $10      Several million people have risked their lives to leave

Turkmenistan $ 7

Nicaragua      $ 2      Much of the population has left

The final fact that poor people benefit from pro-commerce policies and are punished by socialist Lefty governments is China.  Terrible poverty under Mao for 25 years, including millions dying from starvation, only relieved by the introduction of pro -commerce policies in 1978 by Deng Xiaoping and rapid economic growth resulting.

That should be unqualified evidence to convince anyone that Lefty policies are not good for poor people.  The definition of ‘Lefty’ are policies that are anti-commerce.