Trading etc

For some reason it seems people have started to associate trade and use of foreign economics as not just bad, but almost as evil. I believe it sounds something like this, immigrants all taking our jobs, and our industry shipping out the work to another country, no wonder our country is in the decline. Sound familiar? For some reason there is an country misunderstanding that all that makes less expensive goods. But I commonsense, has been misplaced and people have been falling out of the stupid tree left and right, and hitting every branch on the way down.

I think the Dems are playing to this, they are giving the impression that they are all for America by not supporting anything else. That would be my guess, but hey I haven't fallen or climbed the stupid tree, well not lately anyway.

As for transit. I think a lot of it comes down to when things were built. Europe being a much older world, was able to put down much of the railways and subway systems necessary but at a time when labor was much cheaper, as well as materials. We (America) got started later, and now for us to put that kind of project forth would require a lot more capital comparatively. That is the only reasoning I can get? As to why there government is more efficient, I have no idea, but maybe it isn't its just a perception, you know the grass is greener and all that.

Here is one reason why I think our government does not do so well. Pay levels. This comes purely from a medical stand point so it is biased and not entirely encompassing. But the army pays its doctors on scale by rank and not compared to the private sector. For example I will make when I finish my residency around 120k to 130k. No if I worked that same job privately depending on my specialty of choice, I could make 4-8 times as much. That is why their retention rate for doctors is 13%. Just bad business. Again lack of understanding for economics. But that may be why our government sucks. Also quality control may be an issue, again I point to the big dig. Or the VA hospitals where a huge number of surgeons are being fired for gross negligence.

But here is where my argument can fall, I believe the T in Boston is a private company, and it seems every other week their head goes under water financially. But that could be due the the T union or regulations in fare charges I don't know.

-Zachary