By James Perry
Continuing our four part series on a possible downfall of America as Communist China surges ahead in manufacturing for the USA and the rest of the world’s countries brought on mostly by American businessmen giving over their manufacturing divisions to China from the 1970’s through today to increase their vertical integration profit structures, then closed down their most costly divisions, which are the manufacturing and production facilities, reap higher profits and enable the CEO’s and top management people to pay themselves exceptional salaries and sumptuous bonuses. The heck with the lower employees. They can find jobs elsewhere. This trend in America’s top corporations started nearly sixty years ago, accelerated during the 1990’s during Bill Clinton’s administration. President Clinton put America’s largest retail chain in the hands of Communist China by giving China most favored nation status, October 10, 2000. Hillary Clinton served on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart from 1986-1992. Wal-Mart moved their Global Sourcing Headquarters to Shenzhen, China in 2002. During 2003 Wal-Mart imported $150 billion in American dollars in goods from China. This move by Wal-Mart caused Wal-Mart’s SKU’s to go from 60% to 85% of importing Chinese goods. This increase in sales by Wal-Mart’s imported cheaper SKU’s put Wal-Mart controlling sales to 10% of America’s GDP. Today Wal-Mart is the largest importer of Communist Chinese goods. Sourcing import goods from Asian countries started after WWII. From 1945-1952 “The US Occupation and Reconstruction Plan” for Japan was implemented by Gen. Douglas McArthur and focused on stabilizing, disarming, and establishing Japan as an anti-communist country and ally in Asia. The plan worked and trade between America and Japan proved to be great success. Initially Japan’s products were inferior to those made in America, but the Japanese businesses improved and by the late 1950’s and early 1960’s Japan’s products were on a par with America’s. Examples of Japan’s quality improvements are Honda motorcycles introduced in the late 1950’s through the mid 1960’s that were so ahead of American small motorcycles and also the British bikes that by the late 1960’s Japan’s Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha and Kawasaki motorcycles manufacturers put the British motorcycles companies out of business. British unions played a large part in the demise of their motorcycle and sports car industry as there were no unions in Japan. The largest selling motorized conveyance is a Honda motorcycle. In 2025 Honda sold over seventeen million motorcycles worldwide to Harley-Davidson selling a little over 300 thousand worldwide.

Quite a difference. Today Japan’s two sports cars made by Mazda and Toyota sells worldwide compared to the British M G, Triumph, Sunbeam, and Auston-Healy being gone, and only a memory. In the early 1960’s Browning Arms which were the very best rifles and shotguns made transferred the manufacturing to Japan. The Japanese even improved the Browning guns that at the time were America’s best. The best fishing rods, reels, fiberglass poles, line and fishing hooks came from Japan starting in the 1960’s. Also today Toyota is the largest car and pick-up company in the world. They took that title from General Motors with the help of the Obama Administration and the sorry top management at GM along with the help of the EPA. If Japan can do this in less than twenty years just think what China can do within a few more years. To get a view on what China is fast accomplishing watch these two different YouTube video segments. The first is a series of videos from fifteen years ago, “Globeriders Eurasian Odyssey” and watch the entire series as the eighteen motorcycle caravan crosses the entire country of China. Next type in to the computer “Forgotten Buddhas of China” by Itchy Boots who is a very nice Dutch lady who will take you through China and Mongolia on her Yamaha Tenerife Motorcycle during the last two months. You will see how China is improving while America is being sucked dry by politics and plans made and implemented by foreign and domestic interest.

The next four former and present Democrat politicians need to be applauded as great men, good politicians and the last one whom I consider to be todays only statesman. His name is Harold Ford, Jr. from Memphis, Tennessee is still a Democrat but appears to suffer from his party. He is now a co-host on Fox News “The Five at Five.”
Strom Thurmond - B. 12-5-1902 D. 6-26-2003
1932-S.C. State Senate- Democrat
1947-1957 Gov of S.C. Democrat Dixiecrat
1954-2003- Senator of S.C.
1964-Republican
Only Senator from either congressional chamber to reach 100 years of age while serving.
1942 at 39 years old served in US Army, climbed to rank of LT. COL, retired as Major General.
Attached to 82nd Airborne as glider pilot. Flew glider on Normandy invasion.
Fought against giving away the Panama Canal by Jimmy Carter and Cabinet appointees.
Replaced by Lindsey Graham as S.C. Senator
Sen. Strom Thurmond was last statesman in Senate.

Joe Manchin-W.V.
Sec. of State W.V.- 2001-2005-Democrat
W.V. Gov.-2005-2010-Democrat
W.V. US Senator-2010-2025-Democrat
Became Independent-2024
Business & Politician
Politics-Right of Center
Supported many of Trumps policies and appointees
Voted for Biden’s “American Rescue Plan” because of being promised a pipeline to be built through W.V. Biden and his staff did not carry through and left Joe Manchin hanging in the breeze. During Joe Manchin’s last months as US senator, he had to have heavy security as he had serious threats from the Democratic so called progressives against his safety. The Biden Democratic Party ran away their most promising future presidential nominee and sank the Democratic Party future.

John Fetterman B. 7-15-1969
Democrat
Mayor of Braddock, PA-2006-2019
Lt. Gov. PA-2019-2023
US Senator PA-2023-
Recently leaning more conservative
Both parents were conservative Republicans.
Fetterman’s young years being more politically liberal, working for liberal causes, promoting legalization of marijuana, promoting abortion, promoting LGBTQ and trans lifestyles.

But after his stroke he has been moving more to conservative ideas either because of maturing with age or by recognizing that the USA under President Trump is becoming more and more a conservative nation similar to the party of the middle class Americans. John Fetterman in my mind is going to leave the Democrat Party. It’s their loss.

Harold Ford, Jr.
B. 5-11-1970
Memphis, TN
Democrat
US Congressman 1997-2007
2007-Vice Chairman at Merrill-Lynch and joined Fox News
2010-Professor at New York University’s School of Public Service
2017-Worked for Morgan Stanley
2022-Joined Fox News program “The Five at Five” as a co-host
Harold Ford, Jr. seems very affable, mild mannered and knowledgeable serving on Fox News very successful Monday thru Friday 5 pm ‘til 6pm. He as a southern Democrat handles himself well as he presents the Democrat side during the show. Harold Ford, JR. in my thinking is what is missing in today’s Democrat Party. He is the only statesman today in either party. Democrats don’t realize what they have in Harold Ford, JR.

List of songs you may enjoy on YouTube
1. I’ll Hold You in My Heart-by Eddy Arnold
2. If I Could Hold Back the Dawn-by Carl Smith
3. Eileen-by Slim Whitman
4. Riding Down the Canyon-by The Sons of The Pioneers

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