Think the idea is rubbish, just “conspiracy theory”?
Sure sounds like it right? However, I’m sorry to say it’s reality, just look – The Coca-Cola Company is sponsoring the Olympic games in Beijing China as you read this. Coke is the corporate sponsor for Communist China during the Winter Olympics. How are you liking Coke Zero now? It’s a real zero in my book. How about Minute Maid Orange juice and Gold Peak Tea, and don’t forget Dasani bottled water? All owned by “woke” Leftist organization, Coke. It does appear as if Coke loves communists and their communism…
How about Mark Zuckerberg and his wife
and their “Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative”, just look up what they do and how they’re working against the preservation of America and it’s laws and it’s constitution. The reality is that all the tech oligarchs are bed with Communist China. Read the two pieces below I found regarding Apple and their i-phone product(s). Then try to imagine how a Chinese worker employed with Foxconn assembling a new Apple i-phone @ $3.15/hour, or $820/month could ever, ever afford to own one… think about that. (Apple has announced plans to move some of that production out of China but they’re still supporting foreign countries instead of American workers, so still in bed with Communist China.) Read more below –
“China
In general, China is a very important global region for Apple. The 2019 suppliers list shows Chinese and Hong Kong-based suppliers growing to account for a larger share than America and Japan, second only to the region of Taiwan. By physical location, China accounts for 380 of the total 809 production facilities.2 However, Apple has shared some concern over its dependence on China given the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak as well as the Trump Administration’s new tariff rules.” Ref: “Nine Major Companies Tied to the Apple Supply Chain” by Julie Young, July 2021.
“Apple assembles the majority of its iPhones in factories located in Zhengzhou, China, though iPhone parts are also produced in other countries, including the U.S. The Zhengzhou factory with about 350,000 assembly workers can produce as many as 500,000 iPhones per day, and locals call Zhengzhou “iPhone City,” according to a 2016 New York Times investigation. The tech giant’s supplier, Foxconn, is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Shenzen, China, which has a population of about 12.5 million residents. Foxconn plans to invest up to $1 billion in India to move some iPhone production out of China, two sources told Reuters in a July 10 report. Apple CEO Tim Cook has pointed out that Apple parts are produced at U.S. electronics manufacturer Corning’s factories in Kentucky and Texas, but the phones are mostly assembled in China, according to a 2020 New York Times report. The starting wage for Apple’s workers in Zhengzhou is $3.15, the Times reported.”
Source: FoxBusiness
These actions by our corporate leaders,
and Coke and Apple are only the tip of the iceberg of American companies these days coddling up to Communism. This movement is doing nothing but harm to the United States, and in many ways. It undermines our value system, our laws, reduces our standard of living, undermines our foreign policy decisions and even corrupts our politicians all over Capitol Hill and the White House – all are compromised. The process of blurring the lines between these two extreme forms of government – one that protects and respects human rights, and our sovereignty, against one that maintains total control over the masses never recognizing or respecting an individual’s human rights.
You are no longer welcome here –
How did we get here as a country? U.S. policy out of Washington was complicit in the modernization of many emerging countries. The problem grew out of our leadership in Congress and the White House (and eventually spilled over into corporate America) failing for years to discern the difference in their support for what could be harmful to our national security and our economy. A communist regime is a communist regime is a communist regime. There’s never been a place or a time where communism didn’t fail – never! In the same regard, an Islamic Terrorist regime is the same today as it was yesterday. American business leaders need to suddenly become “smarter than the average” if we’re going to preserve this country and protect it from destructive outside influences… I urge all American corporate leaders to confront the line in the sand, if you want to work for and with Communists and Terrorist Regimes then you need to relocate your business to those countries and leave the United States altogether!
I’ve said this many times before, but it’s the abandonment of the gold standard that decimated our manufacturing.
With a gold standard, offshoring costs you your gold, so you have to produce products that induce foreigners to pay you in gold to offset that loss. As things stand now, the incentive is to produce in countries where wages are 80+% lower, thus reducing production activity in our own country. It’s not a coincidence that our manufacturing decline began in the early 70s when we went off of gold.
Interesting take, however, I want to respectfully disagree on your theory here. I have my own explanations, and it did happen over a period of a few decades. First of all we only coveted the gold thing as the United States attempted to re-coup the enormous cost of defending countries like France and probably Great Britain during WWII. My understanding is that our government accepted payment in gold bullion as that’s either all they had to give, or we didn’t want their currencies, one or the other, but either way we took payments in gold. I’m pretty certain those debts were never ever paid in full (which is more meaningful news than it first appears). The United States has been the donor of last resort for the entire world, which leads to my thesis on the subject. When NATO was formed we put in 60-70 cents for every dollar of budget. Most of these NATO countries still today don’t pay jack to defend their own countries.
We embraced communism once communism accepted limited capitalism and our generosity did not stop there. My reason why we moved manufacturing offshore is a combination of the following factors, it was not the U.S. dollar – highest corporate tax rates of any developed country in the world, combine that with less regulations around working conditions offshore, now combine that with a workforce void of labor laws and unions, and wha-laa, sha-zam! We have “American” factories even in communist countries like Vietnam and China. That’s what happened.
Illusions of Grandeur: Our over-generosity as a country has been elevated by these Leftist zealots that believe it’s our responsibility to develop under-developed countries, and furthermore, if the United States can lift up the pygmies in Bornea that somehow their despot leader, whose responsible for killing thousands of his own people, (an example only), that surely when he lands his country into the 21st century with the help of American business, surely he’ll relinquish absolute power and adopt some Democratic form of government?… do you see how childish this argument is and has been over eons of history? There are people, adults right now, serving in Washington, D.C. that still believe in these fairy tales. Our country is screwed until we require adults (only) with brains to serve in our government.
I haven’t watched 2 seconds of this display of Communism. Unfortunately, the companies involved will face some pushback, key word being some. Some isn’t enough, wholesale change needs to take place from top to bottom, from D.C. to the boardrooms.
Few people know the extent to which China can wield power, from semiconductors, clothing, magnets and a must produce here, pharmaceuticals. No China, no antibiotics. Think about that…
Coca cola has already stepped back from an ad campaign for the Olympics (Ad Age) and is doing the same with the Super Bowl.
We are a collective of fools if we think China will ever change its genocidal ways and corrupt government.
Keep this topic alive or we will become China.
As always, thank you.
Another great comment. American business, and I blame the fools in boardrooms and C Suite offices, have fallen asleep at the wheel. All business with Communist Regimes must stop now. I don’t care what they make, we can make it here. So no China, no Vietnam, no North Korea, no Iran, no Syria, no Cuba, no Venezuela, no Russia, and I’m certain I’ve missed a few. Americans must stop importing Communism immediately!!!