Bfl
Kill the Department of Education
seriously. Returning all education responsibility to (and funding from) the States will have many benefits.
It will first of all pop the massive, government-funded debt bubble designed to funnel all students into 4 year liberal arts colleges. This is another progressive scam that simply winds up benefiting a major leftist voting bloc while tying down American youth with massive debt. Pop the debt bubble and university tuition rates will crash.
Secondly, having all funding coming from the states, will give some incentive to experiment with other education or apprenticeship programs.
Apply tariffs at the border to equalize costs American manufacturers incur complying with environmental and labor laws imposed on them by the Federal govt. Why should American workers be out of their jobs because a Communist country is willing to pollute their land and poison their slaves?
Went to Walmart, found a quality Made in USA whisk broom for $4.98, and it came with a dust pan too.
They did that to a small arts and crafts company next door to us . The owner had invested in new production equipment to meet WalMarts request for expanded production. According to WalMart, the Asian supplier was supplying finished shed goods for less than our neighbor's raw materials cost.
The debt load they took on to meet promised WalMart product demand killed the 40 year old company when WalMart abruptly cancelled its contracts in favor of the Asian rip off company.
WalMart did generously offer to buy all the patterns and IP for pennies on the dollar to send to the Asian rip off company
Instead, the owner moved everything out into an open field behind their shop and burned it right in front of the f’n WalMart buyers nose.
That’s rich.
Wal-Mart is directly responsible for Rubber Made and other companies opening plants in China.
In the case of Rubber Made Wal-Mart sent them a pricing sheet telling Rubber Made what they would pay for each item.
Each item was quoted BELOW production costs.
Rubber Made said no.
Overnight Wal-Mart pulled every item made by Rubber Made off store shelves and cancelled all orders.
Only took the suits at RM two days to cave. They had to open off shore plants just to satisfy WM.
Sam Walton died in 1992 and his kids started destroying their suppliers jobs soon after.
One of the many reasons I will not shop at Wal-Mart.
`”... available, qualified workforce...”
How much do they want to pay? My son has a 2 year Associate of Science degree in technology with a very high grade point average. He’s a talented machinist and TIG welder with 3 years of job experience. He can do manual machining or set up, program and run a CNC mill. He can lay out parts in CAD and run them through the CAM system. Makes $18. an hour. If it weren’t for mandatory overtime, he wouldn’t be able to make ends meet.
Best advice: Sell NOTHING to Wal-Mart.
All they will do is beat the company down to near Chinese level prices, then illegally violate intellectual property rights and buy the Chinese goods even cheaper.
I have a recommendation for WalMart and other brick and mortar retail.
Do better at advertising price against their online competitors. A shopping basket in my mind absolutely has to beat the shipping costs of each of those items handled, packaged, and shipped separately to an individual front door.
Insure that your warehouse + shipping + outlet work force be no larger than the online competitors’ warehouse + shipping.