BloggeRhythms

Today’s items reflect continuing trends predicted here fairly often. Particularly regarding how politicians pander to constituents, most times ignoring obvious truths indicating major flaws in their arguments. 

 

Qiu Quanlin @telegraph.co.uk writes about an industrial trend in China, which soon will have the same effects here, though for different reasons.

 

Mr. Quanlin writes, “It may seem like science fiction, but robots really are on the rise.

 

“Already incorporated on the frontline of plants in the Pearl River Delta, a major manufacturing region in South China, high-tech production is seen as the long-term answer to future growth. 

 

“With industries as diverse as garment manufacturing and smartphone production vying for export orders in a crowded global marketplace, finding that competitive edge is crucial. 

 

And, here’s the critical issue: Luo Weiqiang, assistant general manager of Guangdong Everwin Precision Technology, which designs, manufactures and sells electronic components, says “By using 60 industrial robots, an assembly line that would have needed about 600 workers in the past now needs just 100.”

 

Additionally, and even more dire, “Production efficiency has also greatly improved after the introduction of industrial robots.” 

 

The company, established in 2010 plans to have 1,000 robots when it upgrades its production lines this year which will do the work of 3,000 employees. 

 

The trend to automation becomes far clearer when utilization statistics are considered, whereas “In China, demand for industrial robots has increased dramatically. Last year, sales of robotic technology reached 5.6 million units, up 54 per cent compared with 2013, Xinhua News Agency reported,” and ”The demand will continue to rise as China needs more-advanced equipment to upgrade its manufacturing,” according to Zhang Peng, deputy director of Shunde Economy, Science and Technology Bureau. 

 

Therefore, in China explosive industrial growth has caused the spurt in technology whereas additional people aren’t available to fill the employment need. On the other hand, here in the US, rising minimum wages, increasing benefits, more vacation and leave time are beginning to force replacement of personnel with robotics wherever possible. 

 

Which means that, in China, the problem’s occurring for positive reasons, production growth. While here, the replacement of workers is greatly spurred on by self-serving politicians in search of votes, taking advantage of an unaware, uneducated, and soon to be replaced, labor force.   

 

On another issue illustrating political objectives outweighing obviously negative expectations, W.J. Hennigan @latimes.com reports that, “As diplomats rush to reach an agreement to curb Iran's nuclear program, the U.S. military is stockpiling conventional bombs so powerful that strategists say they could cripple Tehran's most heavily fortified nuclear complexes, including one deep underground.

 

“The bunker-busting bombs are America's most destructive munitions short of atomic weapons. At 15 tons, each is 5 tons heavier than any other bomb in the U.S. arsenal.”

 

What’s most interesting is that, “U.S. officials say the huge bombs, which have never been used in combat, are a crucial element in the White House deterrent strategy and contingency planning should diplomacy go awry and Iran seek to develop a nuclear bomb.”

 

Now, whether the officials statement's regarding the existence of the weaponry has been released as a stimulant to induce Iranian acceptance of a nuclear deal, or simply publication of tactical information is, obviously, an unknown. However, the president's comment following the announcement, seems totally preposterous, as follows:      

 

“Obama has made it clear that he has no desire to order an attack, warning that U.S. airstrikes on Iran's air defense network and nuclear facilities would spark a destabilizing new war in the Middle East, and would only delay Iran by several years should it choose to build a bomb.”

 

The comment makes absoloutely no sense because simple logic dictates that, if the US has the weapons to eliminate Iran’s nuclear sites today, that capability will remain in the future. Thus, any US deterrents to Iranian nuclear threats can only be curtailed by the US itself, regardless.

 

Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife.

 

Ken Thomas @myway.com writes that on Friday, in Hanover, New Hampshire, Bill’s wife said, “Obama and her husband had both inherited a series of economic headaches when they entered office and urged voters to elect another Democrat "to continue the policies that actually work for the vast majority of Americans."

 

However, Obama followed two years of a Democrat congress undoing the previous six years of Republican induced economic growth. He also followed a very unpopular war in Iraq. And, as his record shows, he's lied about every issue he promised to fix, including the economy, his health care tax, immigration reform, and now, we’re right back in Iraq again in a far weaker position than gained six years ago.

 

As far as Bill Clinton himself is concerned, he won election as POTUS primarily because, his predecessor George HW Bush reneged on his vow not to raise taxes. Yet, no top Democrat thought Bush would lose despite the tax increases, which is why Clinton, who was way down the list of possible nominees, got the presidential bid in the first place.   

 

Bill’s wife also said, if the nation elected a Republican president, "they will repeal the Affordable Care Act.” That is as certain as I can say." And, her words should make any Republican candidate a shoo-in. Because repeal will please all Republicans and most Independents, adding up to about 60% of the electorate.

 

Additionally, she said, “at the end of her husband's two terms, the economy had generated 22 million jobs, a balanced budget and "a surplus that would have paid off our national debt if it had not been rudely interrupted by the next administration."

 

What she left out though is that voters that do some homework, or understand anything about the economy at all, certainly know that Bill Clinton’s economic policy was created and managed by Republican, Alan Greenspan, a Bush holdover.

 

Then, after all her misrepresented descriptions of the nation’s economic history, she finally got something correct by saying, “she hoped the U.S. would "get a deal that puts a lid on Iran's nuclear weapons program" but said it was "too soon" to know if that was possible.”

 

And that really is the horrendous current situation, because the whole world won’t really learn the truth about Iran’s weapons program until they start bombing Middle-Eastern neighbors, particularly Saudi Arabia and Israel.  

 

Which brings us to the ongoing question: Mayor Bloomberg, are you reading this? And perhaps, someone will read it to to Joe Biden, too.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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