July 23, 2011
Letters to the Editor
The Laconia Daily Sun
Bribes put American manufacturing plants in other countries
Dear Sir:
I want to tell you why I supported “Right to Work”, and why, in my opinion, every American should also support Right to Work.
Back in the 1960’s when I was the Marketing Supervisor for rubber lined tanks at B. F. Goodrich, I handled the sales of rubber lined “pickling” tanks for two of the five steel mills being given away to countries overseas. One inevitable result of our using American Tax dollars to give those steel mills to five different, overseas nations would be to put American steel worker out of work. Yet, put themselves out of work they did. At the time I could not figure out why the steel workers would support sending steel mills, at our expense, to other nations when one unavoidable result of using American tax dollars to build steel mills for other countries would be to put American steel workers out of work. Thousands of other kinds of manufacturing plants were provided for other nations, which is turn put many millions of other American workers out of work. Since those plants were then “owned” by the governments of those nations, the only thing such give-a-ways promoted, was socialism.
In the 1970’s I was the “S-4”, or Supply Officer for an Army Reserve Artillery Battalion. My being the Supply Officer means that I knew exactly how short we were of supplies. My battalion was supposed to have six 155 mm howitzers, and we had only one obsolescent 105 mm howitzer. During the 1960’s and 70’s Congress awarded funds to fully equip the Army Reserve five different times. None of those funds ever ended up in the Army Reserve. Each of those five times, all of the funds were sent to other countries. A good deal of those American tax dollars were laundered through the World Bank, the various UN trade agreements, and other activities and agencies of the United Nations. The sending of American Tax dollars to other nations is a long standing problem. A great deal of that kind of “laundering” of American tax dollars to other nations was attributed to Members of Congress who were elected to Congress by Union support and backing.
At a later time, the “deals” that President Clinton made, especially with China, were so obvious and so flagrant, that the Congress Impeached President Clinton for accepting bribes. So the bribery information is there for anyone who wishes to review it. All one needs to do is to look through the Congressional Record for the year 1998 to see all the details that one needs to see.
Bribes, (not WalMart) put American Steel Mills in China. Bribes, (not WalMart) put thousands of other American manufacturing plants in nations overseas. According to one estimate, over the past 50 years, American tax dollars built about 42,000 Manufacturing plants overseas, at a cost of 13 trillion American tax dollars and the loss of 29 million American manufacturing jobs. It is all “in the record”, all the details were published in one place or another. The job loss is still continuing, for example, In the past ten years manufacturing jobs in New Hampshire dropped from about 103,000 jobs in manufacturing down to about 65,000 jobs, and that loss of jobs killed about half of the tax base of the State of NH
The US Congress did impeach President Clinton, but by the time the bribery charges got to the Senate, President Clinton’s backers had managed to get the charges changed from an impeachable charge of bribery over to it being a bedroom farce, and the Senate did not convict.
Yes, I support “Right to Work” and so should every American.
Very truly yours,
Bob Kingsbury