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Entry: They Are The Hollow Men Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/they_are_the_hollow_men#22467 Post contents: On the contrary, the collapse of the dollar would make american cars, and to an extent, japanese cars produced in America, realtively cheaper than Japanese, or European cars. It is true that International Trade disrupts some industries, but it is also the case that technological changes bring similar disruptions. I very much doubt that even by following Mr. Piatak's advise to erect high trade barriers, you could save jobs in the auto industry. The production process has become over the years more mechanized, so as to the efect that fewer workers are needed to produce the parts or assemble them. Also, are those jobs in the car industry that good? The constant repetition, sometimes mind-numbing, was a regular critique of the industrial landscape upt to a few years ago. Why now are those jobs suddenly all that beauiful? An ancestor or Mr. Piatak would have felt the same about 100 years ago with regards to the depopulation of the countryside, as small farmers would leave their fields to work on grimy factories. But the living conditions in the farms were far from idyllic. Today, the level of comfort for workers is the highest any other person in the history of humanity has attained. Sure, there are problems in several sectors, like the possibility of a recession or home foreclosures, but society today has a more stable structure to deal with this periodic crises, and altough this is little comfort to those most in need in these times, there has to be an adequate sense of proportion. A Paleoconservative must have respect for tradition, but it must also be aware that the man's mind pushes him constantly to higher levels of innovation, and that an economy as big an as complex as the U.S. destroys millions of jobs, but creates millions more. Sent at: 2008 08 08