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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Tucker: Our Leaders Made It Possible to Become Dependent on China

Tuesday during his show’s opening monologue, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson explained how the United States has become more and more dependent on China, a nation grappling with the potential spread of the Coronavirus.

Transcript as follows:

The Democrat primary race is shaping up. It’s a pretty clear choice really for Democrat voters.

On the one hand, they can get a self-described Democrat socialist who wants to make your health insurance illegal or they can go with the plutocrat rich enough to buy your hometown.

That’s the choice. We have more to tell you with the Democrat Civil War now in progress in just a moment, but first tonight, there are serious long-term problems facing America as we’ve told you about for years on the show.

Thanks to outsourcing, this country no longer has the same reserve of stable middle class manufacturing jobs we did even 30 years ago. In coastal cities, housing has become astronomically expensive, prices are rising far quicker than wage growth.

And most tragically, an opioid epidemic kills tens of thousands of Americans every year. One of the chief reasons for that is a synthetic opiate called fentanyl that is smuggled in from abroad.

Now these might seem like unrelated problems, but they’re not. A single theme unites them, a systematic decision by many of our country’s most powerful leaders to sell out America to China.

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

That we do not make meds leaves us at their mercy

Anonymous said...

It was the major stockholders of Big Corporate America who made China what it is today.

Anonymous said...


Not 'Big Corporate America', 1:36, but surely Big Pharma.

We have indeed been shipping our manufacturing capacity offshore to save a few bucks with the idea that the jobs would help developing countries.. and that's very nice as far as it goes. But leaving us without a manufacturing base was short-sighted and kinda dumb, because now here we are, at their mercy.

Of course, if Big Pharma has to bring those jobs back here, we will pay dearly for it, so they can continue to send leggy blonde reps to doctors' offices with lunch for everybody and a nice set of logo golf clubs for the doctor.

"The cost of doing business", you see...

Anonymous said...

The average life of a democracy is 250 yrs +/-. No Empire has ever survived without a manufacturing base economy and middle class. And you can't have a middle class without manufacturing and small business.

Anonymous said...

Our DEMOCRATS sold us out to China & got paid for it too !!!!

Anonymous said...

Who is “WE”?

You and Me?
I didn’t recall shipping jobs over seas.
Did YOU ship the jobs over seas?
If so, why did you do that?
Seems unAmerican - like the major stockholders of Big Corporations like Nike, Levi Strauss, Mattel, Sony, GE, General Motors, so on

Anonymous said...


"..Who is “WE”?

You and Me?.."

Yes, 5:55.

Do you shop at Walmart? Target? Payless Shoes? Dollar General?

Anonymous said...

I never shipped jobs over seas
I'm pretty sure it was American Corporations who did that so they could make more profit.

Right?