America Needs Jobs, Not Chinese Imports

American Greatness ^ | September 12, 2019 | Spencer P Morrison

[Thalean]

J.P. Morgan estimates that President Trump’s tariffs will cost American families up to $1,000 next year. We have heard this before and we’ll hear it again. But the fact is that tariffs have not yet—nor will they likely—increase the cost of living.

Further, the myopic obsession with the price of goods ignores the more pressing problem: millions of Americans remain chronically unemployed, and millions more have been reduced to surviving on part-time McJobs and welfare. Turns out, cheap goods aren’t so cheap if you don’t have a job.

[bicyclerepair]

I cant find a job. Apparently little old ladies are qualified to take tickets at the concert stadium but they rejected me. A little old lady down the street who works there suggested i apply. I dont understand how im not qualified to take tickets but she is

[wastoute]

The “Masters of the Uinverse” (Tom Wolfe) got fabulously wealthy sending jobs to China (and other places). We were propagandized that all they were doing was ceasing the production of buggy whips in favor of better paying, more productive concerns. (See Mitt Romney and Bain Capital). Unfortunately those “High Tech” better paying jobs turned out, for most, to be a second job flipping burgers. After a couple decades of rape and pillage across flyover country there little left to “harvest” so as those opportunities are coming to an end it’s safe to admit transferring $Trillions to China to make a handful of coastal elites fabulously wealthy may not have been a good thing. Which is good for you if you have managed to be one of those people who drowned your sorrows in Pabst Blue Ribbon as opposed to Oxy Contin. Clown World. All of it.

[Texas Eagle]

There are literally thousands and thousands of tariffs in place on good from all around the world.

Yes, they may affect prices to a certain degree but nowhere near as much as taxes do. Here in California, for instance, we pay somewhere near a $1.06 in local, state, federal and excise taxes for a gall on gas.

So, when I fill up my 30 gallon gas tank, over $30.00 of that goes to taxes. I fill up every 4 or 5 days. Add that up, J.P. Morgan and then open up your fat face.

[central_va]

Do “they” really pass the savings on labor to the US consumer? I doubt it. If they did then what would be the point? They off shored to MAXIMIZE profits at the expense of US workers and quality. A win-lose-lose situation.

[wastoute]

At least we don’t have to worry about what to do with all these buggy whips anymore.

[central_va]

Here is how I see the mainstream Republican Party Platform (circa 2020).

• Americans are lazy and drug addicts.
• America workers, that aren't lazy drug addicts, are overpaid.
• Imported indentured labor is cheaper and more productive and we don't have to whip them.
• Rising wages are a crises that requires drastic action i.e. more imports, more "migrants"!
• Tariffs are bad and income taxes are good.
• Wages can never be driven low enough.
• Eliminate the minimum wage and let in more illegals.

[crusher2013]

You forgot to add

End Social Security and Medicare.

[Texas Eagle]

I don't know if you're being sarcastic but trust me, if you are series, you can find a job. If nothing else, sign up at the various employment agencies in your area. I have a full-time job and I am also signed up at 3 employment agencies who are always calling and texting me about job openings.

I take some of the temporary assignments because I don't want to quit my full time job yet. For instance, in a couple of weeks, I'll be pouring beer at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company's Oktoberfest celebration. Woo hoo!

So, look into it.

[grey_whiskers]

They’re lying through their foul teeth.
Case in point: cost-to-manufacture vs. retail price of athletic shoes.

[FatherofFive]

Here is how I see the mainstream Republican Party Platform (circa 2020).

I think you should go to the eye doctor.

[central_va]

The GOP is a bad product that average workers are not buying. Why do I say that? The GOP is struggling to gain a majority with the Democrats melting down into a leftist gulag of craziness. How is it then that the GOP cannot capitalize on that?

[M. Thatcher]

I cant find a job.

Uh-huh.

[veracious]

Amen! And obviously too.