Posted on 09/28/2014 9:42:06 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
People we are sleeping in America.
Every single month now, we buy 30 or 40 billion dollars more from China, than we sell to China.
This year, is every bit the disaster, that it was last year. And the year before.
Except it is worse, because we CONTINUE TO INCREASE OUR DEBT.
Just saying. Bring back American businesses, and bring back American JOBS.
Jobs.
That's all you'll say.
What do the rest of your buddies at the union hall want us to do?
Or is whining as far as you'll go?
I’ve never been in, or affiliated with, any union.
I have told you that before.
Please focus.
Focus on a solution.
Beyond your whining.
I am sorry to say but You are dreaming. There is a push to get a One World Government in place by just about all the billionaires and all the bankers and all the money handlers in legislative positions. Guess who is going to win the fight? Hint: It won’t be you and me. The best we can do is hang on to our weapons so they don’t get too drastic with their enslavement ideas.
I think some have sold out.
I think others have done it as a response to keep the company competitive and keep consumer prices down. so that people will still decide to buy their stuff.
i think many have gone there because epa ran them out of the country via regulations.
i think some have gone because of tax laws.
either way, if your core statement of “bring jobs back” will ever happen, you HAVE to make this a more attractive place to OPERATE a business. the end of it is american workers do well at semi-skilled and skilled jobs, but need higher pay and benefits to live here, so that offset must be made by tax reduction on the businesses if they want to keep the competitive price-point.
and the other thing to do is is you want american jobs is close the damn border, end welfare, and end the h1b visa scam programs.
And for my company it's a dirty, grinding job. Some high school kid taking one? Not a chance.
“I completely disagree.”
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Kindly provide the factual basis for your disagreement. Otherwise, you’re just chanting meaningless slogans hoping others will capitulate to your obdurance. Saying the same thing repeatedly without factual support is just an emotional rant.
OK let’s start with your first statement:
“The national debt is because of government spending, not the Chinese. “
I disagree with this statement. Although we have enabled the Chinese, they have created our national debt because they do not buy from us.
The Chinese have created a massive trade imbalance. We need to correct that.
He won't go out on a limb and actually agree that we have to change things. That's not in his union contract.
It’s not out of balance. We send them money, they send us goods.
The books balance.
Now let’s continue to your fourth statement:
The biggest impediment to American jobs isn’t the Chinese.
More accurately, it is that some American companies have sold out American workers, in order to by things from China.
Bring the jobs back to America.
BZZT. We have created our national debt, through our politicians in Washington, D.C. (and the odd type who favors national health care--hint).
Folks, buy anywhere but Chinese.
About a year of so ago, I went to two Western stores to purchase a new pair of boots.
Cavenders and a local outfit both carried about 2/3rds or so of their boot inventory with labels, “Made in China”.
I went out to Justin/Tony Lama boot FB sites and lodged a public complaint.
It read, “Something as uniquely American as the Western cowboy boot made in CHINA? Are you serious?”
I receive quite a few likes and folks were checking out it out and commenting like crazy.
I then had representatives from both Justin and Tony Lama boots chime in very quickly. We here at Justin (TLama) are proud of the quality of our boots...blah blah blah.
Join me folks. Boycott the commie Chinese. They are NOT our friends.
BS. If they bought $27 billion more from us per month last year, we'd have had a tiny surplus with them.
How would that have eliminated the $919 billion we added to the debt last year?
“Although we have enabled the Chinese, they have created our national debt because they do not buy from us.”
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Whether the U.S. has a national debt is not dependent upon whether the Chinese buy goods from the U.S. private sector.
The U.S. national debt exists because the federal government spends more money than it takes in. The solution is to cut government spending and repay the debt. The government is trying to cheat on this by continuing to spend but devaluing the currency so the debt can be repaid in cheaper dollars.
The fact that the Chinese do not buy much from the U.S. creates a trade deficit but that is not the same thing as the national debt. There is no correlation. If the Chinese bought as much from U.S. businesses as we do from China, there would still be a huge growing national debt because of government spending.
I disagree with you, to the extent that you are saying the Chinese trade deficit does not contribute to the national debt.
It does.
We are giving away 30 billion dollars every single month, to China.
That was my entire point, in the original post. We are giving away America’s wealth.
Stop it. Bring back American jobs.
“More accurately, it is that some American companies have sold out American workers, in order to by things from China.”
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Despite union spin, American workers have lost their jobs for many reasons unrelated to China. They include a burdensome regulatory environment, the importation of illegal cheap labor, costly lawsuits, and high taxation. There’s little economic incentive to create or keep jobs in the U.S. these days. Have everything to do with the policies of federal, state, and local governments.
If China didn’t exist, there’d always be another scapegoat (Mexico, India, etc.) rather than addressing the causes.
Don’t change the subject.
China is the problem.
China needs to balance it’s trade with America, or America needs to bring our trade home.
The current situation is completely out of control.
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