What's The Score? Who's Winning?

Ya know what our problem is in this country? America, or more specifically our government and our industries and businesses don't know how to play the game. We're supposed to work like a team. We're supposed to be playing like a team in the game of life. But the problem is, our guys don't know the rules. The rules are simple. There are no rules. Oh, there are pretend rules and everybody pretends to obey those pretend rules, but nobody does. Well at least nobody but us. We naively think everybody will play fair. But playing fair ain't a part of the game. Take China. China pretends to play fair. They just offer cheap labor in exchange for locating manufacturing plants in China. Now we like that because that will raise the living standards of their workers so they can afford to buy our products. And we keep the technology. The thing is that once they have the factory in China, they have the technology. We think they won't transfer that technology to their own facilities. That's the playing fair part. Do you see a problem here? Pretty soon they have the factories, the technology and the machinery and the factories to make the machinery. So where does that leave us? Would you like fries with that order? Now we don't have factories or the machinery, we no longer have a trained workforce to make that product and we no longer have an exclusive on the technology. So what's the score in the game? Four to zip in favor of China. The claim used to be that this was the information age and we no longer needed that manufacturing base. Well here's some information for you. We're in the fourth quarter and we're behind 4 - 0. For forty years we've been playing fair. It's time to start following the rules.You know. The no rules rules.