The world's biggest ship - for 53 days

BBC ^ | 8 January 2015 | Justin Parkinson

[central_va]

This will make product much more affordable to U.S. consumers while ensuring that labor unions are strangled the same way they've been strangling U.S. businesses for decades.

Change your screen name to Benedict Arnold.

For the record, in the USA, the amount of manufacturing that is done by Unionized Labor is 10%. The overwhelming majority of off shored manufacturing jobs were non union in the first place. The amount "saved" by off shoring to slave labor camps is abut 3-5 cents on the dollar. For that saving we pay for social unrest, welfare and malaise. Another benefit, to our enemies, is our defense infrastructures been degraded, without a manufacturing base we become a toothless tiger.

Oh by the way, EVERY single founding father was a protectionist. To a a man.

[SamAdams76]

There's really no need to keep manufacturing in the U.S. It can be done much more cheaply overseas with low skill labor. Why would you want to increase prices to American consumers? Just so certain people can hang onto dead-end jobs on a manufacturing line?

Time to move out of the Industrial Age and into the Information Age.