Last week I was watching a container ship being unloaded when I realized that this common sight in our ports is a vivid illustration of why the American economy and standard of living will continue to fall. Huge ships like this one carry at very low cost the manufactured products made in low-wage countries that now fill every store.
Politicians of both parties never talk about container ships. They'd rather talk about jobs, jobs, jobs. Republicans have their solution and Democrats have theirs but no mainstream politician, even the craziest Tea Party type, wants to turn the clock back and reverse progress. Nobody wants those ships to stop coming to our shores, do they? We live in a global economy, right? Our kids have to get lots of smarts to compete in that global economy, right?
