At a charity dinner at the German embassy in Washington, Kissinger said that in New York, where he lives and works, there is little understanding for the fact that he is raising money for Berlin. But if the donations start adding up, he promised a high-level visitor from the United States at the 2015 opening of the palace: John McCain will show up, he said, “as a president, then in his second term.” The comment was met with polite chuckles and a toast to common interests.

From Spiegel Online.

Well, I am not sure if Kissinger is right. I hope so.

The quoation is from an article about the American and the Airbus and  free trade and fear of losing jobs.

It is a divergence that has been coming for some time. Blue collar laborers in the US are unhappy and have seen the number of industrial jobs in the US decline by a third in the last three decades. Most of these jobs were lost in traditional working-class states like Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. The United States, once the world’s largest net exporter, has racked up an enormous balance of trade deficit. And now even the federal government, by awarding major contracts to foreign companies, has given the appearance of having lost confidence in domestic industry.

Even if US has a huge amount of low pay jobs the nation is facing problems because of the globalisation. It´s strange, US always try to look like the big country of freedom, but their Super National Companies try to build monopoly around world, trying to be the one and only in every trade. The politicians in US are afraid of free trade, afraid of letting other nations win any part of the market. And now the americans have lost a very important part in the market, the military, the icon of their country.

Almost everything Americans need in their lives today is imported. Shrimp comes from Thailand, television sets from Taiwan, toys from China, and now the Pentagon will be importing some of its equipment from Europe. Until now, the job of outfitting the US Armed Forces was sacrosanct — and reserved for domestic manufacturers. The Pentagon’s decision to award portions of the Air Force contract to a European company is thus both a provocation and a violation of a taboo — precisely because it was based on the strictest of quality specifications for the products of both manufacturers.

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