NY Post Editorial Board Calls for Restoring Pharmaceutical Production in Puerto Rico

To: Governor Dinwiddie

It’s like the electronics industry. Machines populate and solder the circuit boards. We invented the machines. The labor involved in assembling a cell phone is mere pennies. So why are the Chinese making our cell phones?

Because labor isn't the entire picture for business costs. Sure, it's a big part of it, but you have to look at a lot of other factors that we have, that China doesn't/is much less: land costs, building costs, building codes, utilities, regulations - city ordinances, regulations - state law, regulations - federal law, regulations - all sorts of random agencies, environmental considerations, etc. Chinese-sourced materials (plastics, metals, etc) are also probably a lot cheaper (crappier quality though). Not to mention, a warehouse full of robots putting stuff together is a massive initial expense, and upkeep/maintenance/programming guys are much more than $1 an hour.

So is the overall "made-in-China" worth it? Apparently so, because a LOT of companies do it; and as they start divesting China, it's gonna be the Philippines and Malaysia and Africa and other cheap poor countries picking up the slack, I doubt much cheapcrap manufacturing is coming back to these US.

Side note, while yes, a lot of phones are Chinese, mine is not! :D Sony's XPeria line is all made in Japan, and a couple others (LG mainly) are made in SKorea.

41 posted on 03/09/2020 9:23:00 PM PDT by Svartalfiar

To: FreedomPoster

and where the people look down their noses at Americanos

42 posted on 03/09/2020 9:23:26 PM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))

To: lizma2; Roccus

43 posted on 03/09/2020 9:32:29 PM PDT by 4Liberty (BERNIE SANDERS: A CRUSTY, ANTI-AMERICAN WEIRDO. - Kurt Schlichter)

Chinese campaign contributions? Remember the Buddhist temple?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controversy

44 posted on 03/10/2020 12:34:03 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)

To: CheshireTheCat

45 posted on 03/10/2020 1:10:34 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)

Wasn’t that the postal worker’s house from HRC’s 2008 campaign?

46 posted on 03/10/2020 4:28:43 AM PDT by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)

Ahh yes. The famous Dynaco Amps. There are still a lot of Dynaco Amps in use today.

47 posted on 03/10/2020 9:17:15 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)

The Paw house - I remember foreign money was laundered through it. Not a wealthy neighborhood, but thousands of dollars some how mysteriously “donated” to Clinton campaign.

48 posted on 03/10/2020 3:27:13 PM PDT by 4Liberty (BERNIE SANDERS: A CRUSTY, ANTI-AMERICAN WEIRDO. - Kurt Schlichter)

Yup!

I knew there was a connection to HRC. Paw was a USPS employee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Hsu#Relationship_with_Paw_family

49 posted on 03/10/2020 4:58:59 PM PDT by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)

To: CheshireTheCat

Tariffs on pharmaceuticals and their ingredients would encourage production startups all over the US, which would be a more robust solution.

You NEVER want any critical item sourced in just one place, even if it’s a big place like China.

50 posted on 03/10/2020 5:05:32 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)

To: CheshireTheCat

Why stop with Puerto Rico? Why not the entire US?

51 posted on 03/10/2020 5:07:26 PM PDT by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA!)

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