container-ship-san-franciscoWelcome to “The Michael Savage Newsletter,” your daily report on all things “Savage.”
In today’s issue: Dr. Savage offered his “Savage Nation” listeners some poignant observations from his life on San Francisco Bay and a brief time living in Hawaii to warn America is in danger of repeating history.
“I watch movies a lot on television, and I particularly like movies from the 1970s, when almost all the cars were American cars,” he said.
“Remember those movies, like ‘French Connection’? You rarely saw any so-called foreign cars, 1970-71. Big American cars. They didn’t handle very well. … Early ‘Godfather’ movies. Big American cars. Cadillac, Chevies, Buicks, Chryslers.”
And then something happened in the ’70s. 
I was living in Honolulu very briefly at that time, and I noticed it happening there when the Japanese were bringing in — loads of tourists from Japan, of course, very welcome in Hawaii, they pumped a lot of money into the economy — but I noticed something odd. They were putting them on Japanese tour buses in Honolulu, with only Japanese notices on the buses. The tour buses were being shipped in from Japan by ship. They wouldn’t even give a dime of the business to local tour companies.
And I said, That doesn’t seem fair to me. How could you let Japanese companies come to Hawaii and use tour buses from Japan and not use American tour bus companies? And i just shrugged and walked away from it.
Well, as time went on, of course, the movies changed, and there was hardly an American car to be seen on the streets of the films as the ’80s evolved, and in the ’90s they disappeared almost altogether.
And the ships that I see traversing the waters of San Francisco Bay, they come in laden to the waterline with Japanese cars and Korean cars. The ships are down, down, down in the water will all the new cars that they produce in Korea and Japan. And then I watch the ships go back to Korea and Japan out of San Francisco Bay. I watch them very carefully. And the ships are riding 30 feet up above the waterline. Why are they riding so high? Because you know what we’re shipping back to them? Nothing.
The Koreans buy nothing from us. The Japanese buy nothing from us. They dump their cars on our shores without tariffs. The buy nothing from us. That’s how stupid this country is. Or should I say that’s how corrupt this country is. Take your choice, because in the end it doesn’t really matter.
Now that little observation about the ships I have to correct slightly. Because I understood that the ships need some ballast to go back across the Pacific Ocean or else they would flounder in a rough sea. And so America did send things back to Japan and has found things to put on those ships. You know what those things are? Scrap metal to China.
I used to boat down the estuary in Oakland, and there was a factory that ground up old metal and through a conveyor belt pumped it into the holds of ships.
See, they’re very clever in China. They’re buying our old steel, our old scrap metal.
Now, there’s a saying from the Spanish philosopher that fits right now that does like this: “Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
Now, you see, in the 1930s, the Japanese also bought our scrap metal. And the capitalists were so happy to send the scrap metal to Japan. They were paying good money for it. Japan was short on resources. They needed the scrap metal. No one looked at what the Japanese were doing with that scrap metal. But they were busily building tanks, planes, bombs, rifles, bayonets that stabbed our boys in the heart.
And, of course, Karl Marx said that when the last capitalist is hung, we’ll hang him with the rope he manufactured.
All of this wisdom can be found in “Government Zero.”