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Posted on 02/13/2015 12:01:05 AM PST by SatinDoll
Yelp! Time to go back to the founders vision
“Imagine an America without Chinese junk ...”
I’m 63-years old and used to live in an America without Chinese junk. In fact, most of my clothes come from the early 1980s and are what’s known as ‘bespoke’ (custom made). Now I’m poor but really do not care, for my needs are small.
I feel sorry for the Chinese people. They’ve been working their asses off, hoping to get rich, and now everything is falling apart economically around the world. We, on the other hand, have engineered much of our own situation.
Back in the 1960s and 70s, there was worry about Japan buying American factories and hotels. In nearly every case, they over paid.
I expect China will follow this same route and copy the Japanese, paying premium value for what ever they go after.
I have always liked the story about how the Japanese investors goofed on Pebble Beach. They couldn’t make it private, since every American owns the shoreline.
Ping.
For later.
This went back and forth, and finally, Bridgestone offered full value (about $75/share) and won the right to the old dog factories and not much else.
It took nearly 40 years for the investment to pay dividends to the Japanese company.
What is coming into these ports ...?
No one has really pinned this on the dock strike, but the factory where I work has been running out of parts more and more. Some of the parts come from China then are assembled in the US for us.
I don’t know how much work we will have next week.
Thanks for the reply. It is a real shame that parts for your factory are not all made in America. Good luck.
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central_va ~ Except for some specialty food items, the USA is almost fully self sufficient in food production.
The point isn't that a west coast dock strike will hurt Americans.
There are any number of countries world wide that are three meals away from a revolution. Those three meals come from America.
They've been cut off.
Bonus round:
How did Indonesia become the world's largest muslim country?
After Krakatoa coated the farmlands with sterile ash, and the native Indonesians were starving, muslim "charities" showed up with food. Convert to islam or starve. Your call.
JIT - Just In Time.
Also known as loading dock to assembly line, a system where factories have little to no inventory (Safety Stock) to buffer supply chain problems.
Also known as:
OSWO - Oh Sh!t We’re Out.
Good luck, my FRiend.
The union workers don’t want to pay for the Cadillac tax on their health insurance.
You’re peachy. :)
Ping.
The longshoremen’s contract expired in July, 2014 and contract talks have stalled, in large part, over whether workers or employers will pay the new Obamacare tax. The longshoremen are the first union to negotiate a contract that would extend beyond the time the tax is first imposed.
“This will come up in just about every contract negotiation out there,” J.D. Piro, a health-benefits consultant, told Bloomberg News. “Every employer is going to be calculating when and if they hit the threshold and how they’re going to pay for this.”
ahhhh the breathlessness of the Alex Joneses of the world
I didn’t know we fed so much of the world anymore; if they are so close to revolutions then let them happen.
I believe Indonesians were Muslim long before that; it reached as far as the Philippines centuries ago.
This has been planned for years - how to get enough control union-wise at the west coast ports - to shut-down the US ports and strangle the economy. The union’s rank and file have been brainwashed into believing it benefits them. It does not.
(They are doing it now because if they try it later during hunting season, when administration tries seizing firearms, the rank and file will turn against them. The rank and file are basically people like us who value their God-given rights and have served in the military. That is one of the myriad reasons people like Leo Gerard, president of the International Steel Union and a communist, want illegal aliens in the unions.)
This is about “Global Justice” via international labor unions. This is about destroying the United States.
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