Nevermind.
Posted on 03/02/2016 12:29:52 PM PST by central_va
So in the mean time we bleed to death and get a socialist government! How clever you are!
The Fed created it. But that won't be able to continue forever. The promise was that NAFTA, GATT etc. would open foreign markets to the goods of US companies. Unfortunately those companies moved manufacturing to other countries. The next step is the companies themselves move to other countries. After all the idea of nations is so outdated.
The factory buys parts and sub assemblies from suppliers. The factory cares not how it was made. It is a cost.
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Rush’s Apple fanboy act is getting hard to take. I also notice he is getting more short and snippy with callers, and seems to take every caller comment as a personal criticism. He needs to take a week off and let Steyn handle things.
There are many issues on the table and the need to eliminate EPA and OSHA on the national level through a 100 percent shut down of those agencies to save costs to taxpayers and prevent anti-business regulation might be a good start.
If states want to regulate those issues, it would be up to them.
The whole analogy is badly flawed from the basic assumptions on. What is not being taken into consideration is the additional cost of govt. regulations on everything the manufacturer is going to do. The cost of administration for the labor unions with the graft and corruption that goes along with them. Workers Comp! unemployment benefits! constants threats of legal action/lawsuits. Affirmative Action/EEOC! ADA, OSHA, etc. etc. etc.
The author knows full well what the issues are and what Rush was talking about. He set up a paper tiger and attacked it with all the vigor he could must so as to claim a hollow victory.
After all the asshole comments about Rush here in this forum, I need to remind some of you actual conservatives that Rush was the lone voice for conservative principles for a long time. I will stick with him (Rush) and not some idiots that like to post here.
Nevermind.
90% of manufacturing is non union. 90%
I don’t always buy Suicide Prevention Nets, but when I do, I buy ones made in America.
Just wanted you to know I think you’re a d!ck.
Your conclusions are unfounded.
I do not want my fellow Americans to work in sweat shops, at below minimum wage, in filthy or unsafe conditions, so that some fat cats can make huge profits.
I say if you want to sell in the US build a factory here, or pay a tax to bring your stuff.
Henry Ford paid his workers more than he had to because he wanted his people to be able to buy what they made in the factory.
A strong middle-class is what made America great, and I think Trump is the one person that can Make America Great Again.
“Free Trade” is usually “Controlled Trade”
You cannot “free trade” with a 3rd world country if you are a 1str world country with tons of regulations and restrictions and wage controls and taxes.
If we had minimal regulations, minimal restrictions, no wage controls, and little to no taxes, then we could trade with the 3rd world and not be so screwed all the time...
‘Man of the people” Rush is a fraud
If you have to pay $2000 for your next iPhone built in the USA you might suddenly agree with Rush.
You can go look up video from twenty years ago of Limbaugh smugly telling conservatives that “it’s okay for you to come home now” after we lost the fight to stop NAFTA and GATT, which he supported. He’s got a globalization bend to him and always has.
Hey Rush acts and talks like a Free Traitor™. Always has.
How is your stupidity a win for gloBULLists?
‘Same with rolled steel. Ford buys it and it gets delivered to the factory. Ford is not in the rolled steel business. They buy it like you buy toilet paper.”
Don’t know if they still are, but for a long time Ford WAS is the rolled steel business. Look up the River Rouge plant (info easily available even to those calling others “economic idiots”) and you can read about the showcase of vertical integration - the facility at which Ford took in iron ore, coal, and other raw materials at one end, and cranked out Fairlanes on the other.
Ford did then what pretty much any company would do - produce its product as cheaply as it can. If it’s buying rolled steel today (instead of making it itself the way it used to) that’s because it’s cheaper that way (which means it’s probably foreign rolled steel).
Your overall beef is a reasonable one, but it requires a national consensus of some complexity: how much are we as a society willing to accept in increased consumer costs in order to provide reasonable employment opportunities to our own citizens? Unfortunately, as many have pointed out here in a manner better than I can this question is so badly distorted by the size and intrusiveness of the federal government that addressing that question in a rational fashion is almost impossible.
One can imagine moving a factory of 50,000 to the US, but I suspect that dream is more likely to come to fruition if we first work on reigning in the leviathan in DC.
Oh, and the villain in that aspect of the problem is not Rush Limbaugh.
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