Posted on 06/03/2021 8:45:56 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
add to the positives that they’re designed to be stackable.
No we won’t. We have off shored entries industries to the 3rd. Consumer electronics and pharmaceuticals are two prime examples. So if you free traitors don’t mind we want our manufacturing base back...
Gonna look great in about 3 years!
“Consumer electronics and pharmaceuticals are two prime examples. “
We are witnessing a massive re-shoring of those industries. (Probably not as big as it would have been under Trump. For example, GM promised to build their new plant in the US, but under Biden they are moving it to Mexico.) Having said that, the trade imbalance is an off-books payment for overflight rights, forward basing rights, intelligence sharing and probably a long list of other things I don’t know about. How much is all that worth? Well, according to Trump’s deals, it’s worth the trade imbalance he negotiated. Now, what are the alternatives? Take South Korea. South Korea has an imploding population and can’t absorb the output of their factories. So, Trump made a deal he thought would cause the least impact on US workers. This keeps the SK economy afloat at minimal impact to the US workers. If the SK economy collapsed, it would significantly weaken an ally we have against Communist China and North Korea. Nothing is for free and everything costs someone something. I’m glad it was Trump making the deal and the deal was ratified before Biden got into office. This isn’t to say Biden can’t remake the deal, but he, or whoever is running things, seems entirely focused on gender issues...which, ultimately, probably won’t hurt US workers.
The USA should be striving for 100% self sufficiency in EVERYTHING. The best way to do that is with import tariffs.
I lived in a shipping container reconfigured into two living quarters with personal bathrooms for 23 months in AFGH... Quiet comfortable living...
Thanks
How are they anchored to the ground?
How are they anchored to the ground?
I have no idea but I’d guess the same procedures you’d use on
large/tall structures would be used here. They would be anchored
but I can’t tell you the procedures used.
“The USA should be striving for 100% self sufficiency in EVERYTHING. The best way to do that is with import tariffs.”
I realize I am probably wasting your time, but here goes...
For centuries, the way trade worked was by empires. The British empire seized other people’s land to extract resource that were not available in Britain and to provide a captive market for their products. (The Tea Act, is what caused the colonists to revolt. But the revolt was really because they could buy cheaper products from other places and the empire forbade that.) That’s how empires worked. The French empire got resources from French colonies and sold their products there. Everybody tried hard not to trade outside their empires because at some point there would be a war and that product or service you’d built your economy on would be cut off. These arrangements caused wars and those wars culminated in World War II. The United States, the only economy to survive the war, got everyone together at Bretton Woods and said, Okay, we’re going to try something different. Anyone can trade anywhere, buy anything and bring it home. The US navy will provide security and you can export to anywhere, and, here’s the kicker, the US threw open its market to the allies so they could export their way back to prosperity.
This worked amazingly well. The population of the world more than doubled and fewer people are living in poverty now than ever before. That’s not in proportional terms. That’s in absolute numbers. Now, this wasn’t because the US was benevolent. The US bribed up an alliance to fight the Soviets. Then, the damned Soviets collapsed. This left us with an alliance we no longer needed. Hence the trade imbalance issue. It had always been there. But, now, we no longer needed it.
The US has fewer soldiers abroad than at any time since the world war. World peace is running on inertia. But the inertia is breaking down. The Chinese want to seize one of the world’s busiest trade routes. (The Nine Dash Line.) They are every bit as dangerous as the Soviets. Actually, I’d say more dangerous as they have made amazing inroads into our government, defense and academia. The Soviets never made such inroads.
Any bullet or bomb we’d need to fight the Chinese would have to sail 13,000 miles or, they’d come from our forward bases. It’s far better to defend the US over there, than over here. And, the trade imbalance is an easy and pain free way to do that. The US worker has well adjusted to this situation.
The danger to the US worker is not a trade imbalance, as that imbalance is way less than five percent of GDP. In my opinion, the danger to the US worker is uncontrolled immigration.
This is a situation where you pick your poison. Trade is as much a weapon as bullets or bombs. It gives the US leverage our government is not afraid to use.
I pity the downstairs neighbors living under someone else's steel floor.
The 30 year globalist experiment in "Free Trade" is an abject failure. Why? because the rest of the of world didn't play along with reciprocal trade and used us.
When you buy a foreign made import you are are actually hiring foreign nationals to build, assemble, ship that product. You are picking foreign workers over Americans. That is the reality of trade today. Those foreign workers are not paying income taxes to uncle Sam and those imports come in duty free! OTH our workers are burdened with regs and taxes.
It's you gloBULLists that love the current system of taxing citizens income while allowing 3rd worlders to dump product here. That defines progressiveness bucko. Real conservatives love the tariff and hate the income tax. Tariffs are a consumption tax and some would call it even regressive. All conservatives should love them ( tariffs ).
Free trade( neo mercantilism ) IS EVIL!!!!! Free Traitors™ aren't just wrong they are doing something that I consider evil.
Whole passel of used shipping containers available Cheep right now.
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Good memory!
Upcycling...up up up. Way more containers come to the US than leave it.
JOC?
I've seen that too. (Both.)
But, what the heck. The SHIPS that brought the containers here go back. Given the trade deficit, are they going back full? Seems unlikely.
Is it cheaper to make new containers than to ship them back on ships making the trip anyway??
Just like an official third-world country!
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