Posted on 01/18/2017 5:19:10 AM PST by expat_panama
Looking forward to it! Sure, he might raise a tariff here and there, but so did that black guy. We survived.
Do both of these projects actually involve the creation of "wealth?"
You created wealth when you actually made things. Each individual “widget” may not have much intrinsic value but in the aggregate that was real wealth. When you got promoted your services were perhaps deemed more valuable to your company as a whole. But you are still piggybacking on those who are still making the “widgets”. No “widgets”, no job for you.
If I’m a medical doctor in the emergency room of a Level 1 trauma center, do I create wealth when I go to work every day?
Building a hotel in Dubai has nothing to do with importing products to the USA. Now if by some magic you could build the hotel in country X and ship it to country Y then that would be relevant. Since you can’t ship hotels it is irrelevant.
Doctors, dentists, mechanics, nurses, landscapers, etc. are service providers. They are transferring wealth from your “treasure chest” to their “treasure chest” in exchange for a service.
Interesting. And here I was, thinking that I was creating wealth so that my company could hire more people to make widgets. Maybe I should’ve moved to that island to collect seagull eggs. I’d really be creating wealth, instead.
If a guy who allegedly "creates wealth" by working in a mine or manufacturing plant is involved in a major car crash and ends up surviving and being restored to health by the ER doctor, then didn't the ER doctor play a valuable role in the mining production process even though he never worked in the mine, was never employed by the mining company, and may even live 2,000 miles away from the mine?
To put it in the context of your post ... without the ER doctor, there would no longer have been any "treasure chest" to speak of, from the mine worker's standpoint.
LMAO.
Understood. You know there's stuff you can take for that and you really need to get that taken care of. Meanwhile you might want to refrain from posting comments on this thread as your condition's making you sound like some kind of goofball and I can only imagine how embarrassed you'll be when you feel better.
Not to worry, we all got problems.
You people have gotten lazy...
Show me the money or drop it.
For some odd reason you seem to believe you’re in control here. You sound like Paul Ryan.
You people have gotten lazy and overcompensated. It’s time you learned to compete.
Raising the price consumers pay would actually make that Win-win-lose.
A weak dollar would make imports less competitive and our exports more competitive. I didn't see any anti-Americans advocating for that, did you?
The last thing we need is a weak dollar and more imports...
To me it’s the opposite. A STRONG DOLLAR buys more goods from other countries.
A WEAK DOLLAR makes American products cheaper in other countries.
For later
Free trade my furry behind! Again we get screwed in a trade deal and we just accept it. I hope Trump says no taxes for both parties or we charge the same as you.
I heard last fall we charge a tax on all of our exports, we are blooming, walking, talking morons.
But there really is no alternative at this point. The wage inflation of the 1970's will not,cannot, happen. It is obvious that the American worker in 2017 has no leverage in this regard at all. A tariff will cause commodity inflation with domestic re industrialization and increased supply steadily picking away at it and moving it in the other direction.
Never said it did. I said both are not needed. I did not say they were a corollary. Learn to read.
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