[khelus]

The big lie that free traitors like 1rudeboy like to propagate is that it is prohibitively expense to manufacture in the good old USA. At MOST labor is 10% of the price of ANY manufactured good. I used cars as an example to show this.

The larger point is that we are off shoring to maybe save 2 or 3 % on the retail price. The free traitor lie is everything is dirt cheap now, when actually it is only marginally cheaper. When you factor in the damage it doing to the USA is prohibitively expensive. Traitor is a good word.

The word mentioned by a poster below is 'labor arbitrage'. Corporations are chasing the cheapest labor world wide. By cheap I mean low hourly rate, no benefits, horrendous working conditions, no safety considerations for the workers (or consumer) mandatory overtime, and passing the cost of gtoss environmental destruction onto the citizenry at large. 'Guolaosi' is a word coined in China for over-work death.

It is one thing for manufacture to be developed in China to slowly raise the standard of living for the Chinese people and to provide for the Chinese market.

OTH US corporations that were turning a profit here outsourced manufacture to neo-slaves in China, shipped the products to the US market under a special WTO accession agreement, all to improve quarterly profits by nano-cents on the dollar.

The result can be found here

[central_va]

Mass exodus to profit by 3rd world wage ‘competition’ is what has killed our ecnomy, not our ‘reluctance’ to enter into new technologies and fields. It was swift and broadly encompassing. Not only was there no time to adjust, not only did it happen to every area of manufacturing and production, but was done in the name of corporate (also meaning our 535 and governmental ‘representatives’ investments) and international money interests, NOT the interests of an American Economy, based on American values and standards of living, and promotion of such.

Now, not only is this continued, but the only answer we hear is that continued nannying is the only answer.... jobs AREN’T coming back and it’s the end of the story. So, expand government, it’s agencies, welfare, and don’t address the real problem; instead, ‘usher in the New America’, dependent upon government.

I won’t buy into that. The real answers are there, and this ‘oh,my.... we didn’t know the Chinese would react THIS way’ slap in the face and threatenings may, just MAY wake all of us up enough to take America back.

[bert]

Actually, the subcontracting is done to enable the companies to have products to sell. Had they not found manufacturing subcontractors elsewhere they would have been out of business. No one would buy their overly expensive products.

The concept of neo slavery is a joke to young workers earning a good living in China making stuff rather than starving in a rural village.

It is called competition.