But he has found it politically expedient for him to smother the airwaves with talk of legislating family values and character, which any rational person knows is impossible. Shoes used to be made in houses and cars were once made in garages, but none of you would trade in your Nikes or Hondas for a return to simpler, more expensive times. Basic economics tells us that large companies with greater resources are far more able to ride out financial downturns and produce goods more cheaply than any small enterprise. The change to large corporate farms is inevitable and right as long as it is done with fair business practices. Those issues aside, the biggest farce is any candidate who talks tough about trade with China.
China is our fourth largest trading partner, right behind Japan, Canada and Mexico.
The country provides us with everything from cheap and generic products to top-shelf DVD players. If any candidate were to make good on his threat of trade restrictions, you would find your way of life turned seriously upside down. If you think the world economy is bad now, just wait until you freeze out the nation with the second largest GDP in the world. The spineless pandering of many of the candidates, coupled with the lack of interest of most voting-age adults, has convinced me that democracy does not work. Plato wrote The Republic more than two thousand years ago, and even then it was recognized that democracy was a sham.