Anti-American Americans like Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen— just for instance — are everywhere in the US Establishment

© 2022 Peter Free

 

09 February 2022

 

 

Speaking of supply chains

 

Professor Robert Kuttner took a look at the stalled supply problem week ago. His article reiterates what I have been saying for years.

 

To wit, the US Establishment intentionally gave away most of our manufacturing and critical materials mining capacities to China and other nations.

 

Economic rape by feudalization was intentionally pursued, so as to further porkify corporatistist Fat Cats:

 

 

U.S. public and corporate policy is a house divided against itself.

 

Last August, a group of the last remaining U.S. solar manufacturers petitioned the Commerce Department to investigate China’s deceptive practice of transshipping solar products made in China to the U.S. via such countries as Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, to circumvent tariffs on Chinese solar exports that were ordered after extensive anti-dumping investigations.

 

But the Commerce Department was subjected to an extensive lobbying campaign by both Chinese solar companies and their U.S. customers, as well as a letter by 12 Senate Democrats echoing the talking points of the Chinese solar industry.

 

In the end, the Commerce Department took no action.

 

Yellen has opined that tariffs function as a tax on consumers. Yellen is evidently oblivious to the White House effort to reshore production, and the use of tariffs as vital leverage in that enterprise.

 

Someone . . . needs to remind Yellen who she works for.

 

[T]he whole system of just-in-time offshoring, with China at its center, has been an economic and political failure.

 

It has ruined communities, discredited Democrats as champions of working people, and left the entire economy far more fragile to shocks. It did not even deliver its promise of greater efficiency.

 

Rather than producing more price competition and consumer choice, the system facilitated greater concentration and market power.

 

© 2022 Robert Kuttner, China: Epicenter of the Supply Chain Crisis — How concentrating dependence on China upended our economy and added risk, The American Prospect (01 February 2022)

 

 

Contrary to Kuttner's pseudo-tolerant implication . . .

 

. . . Secretary Yellen knows exactly who she works for.

 

It ain't (and never was) us.

 

Instead, Yellen schemes in aid of the multi-national Oligarchy that controls the planet.

 

The legalized lobbying, bribery, extortion and corruption (that we are daily mired in) are exclusively aimed at keeping the Oligarchy's organized looting going. Yellen is just one of Global Plutocracy's — government stooge — implementers.

 

 

Ripples of death

 

Strangled supply chains also assisted in killing off the small businesses that the United States' Maoist COVID policies had also targeted for elimination:

 

 

A study by the Federal Reserve found that about 800,000 small businesses closed in the first year of the pandemic, about 200,000 more than the annual average.

 

Restaurants, toy stores, booksellers, indie clothing brands, and hardware stores have strained for over a year to meet rising consumer demand.

 

“I have a product that’s been on back order for over 500 days,” said John Ciferni, who owns Tarzian Hardware, a 100-year-old hardware store in Brooklyn, New York. “There are some products that are just gone, and you just have to find something else.”

 

Big-box stores, however, have circumvented many of the bottlenecks. Amazon, Walmart, and other giants have maintained their inventory by expanding logistics operations and striking deals with suppliers, allowing them to get products quicker and cheaper than their smaller rivals.

 

Though the maneuvers keep consumers happy, small businesses have suffered: They wait longer for goods, pay more for shipping, and lose business as customers flock to big-box stores.

 

© 2022 Rose Adams, Big Business Games the Supply Chain, The American Prospect (09 February 2022)

 

 

So no . . .

 

It is not an accident that the United States is completely dependent upon China and other foreign nations for virtually everything that people (over here) need on a daily basis.

 

 

The moral? — Learn to recognize humankind's real (not pretend) enemies

 

Humanity's dominating pillagers are the Mega Corporations — and their rich and influential minions — that American law (via slavering corporatist design) protects Fat Cats from being held accountable for their deadly voraciousness.

 

Billionaires, and the accountability-dodging fake entities that they scheme up, constitute an unrecognized — but fatal — societal disease.

 

Elites' incessant propaganda distracts us from seeing this truth.

 

Ignorance and gullibility on our parts, keeps corporatist Fat Cats prancing and lucre-gobbling atop We the People's soon-to-be cadavers.

 

So, give at least one of those Adam Henrys a 'lick' — before y'all join the lifelessly impoverished Great Beyond.