Posted on 05/04/2012 4:57:06 PM PDT by Swordmaker
After taking heat for shipping jobs to China and contracting to employers with questionable labor conditions, Apple (rather publicly) took credit for creating more than half a million jobs in the U.S.
514,000 to be exact.
That figure included nearly 50,000 employees in its retail network and its corporate headquarters, where products are designed.
But it also included FedEx and UPS employees who deliver its products and employees at Corning who make glass for iPads and iPhones.
So Apple basically counts anyone vaguely associated with the company or its products as a job that Apple created.
But what about the competitors Apple has bumped off in its relentless move to the top?
What about the once-profitable markets, products, and companies it has destroyed? What happened to those jobs?
Business Insider analyzed data on Bloomberg, went through dozens of 10-Ks, and read through layoff announcements to see how Apple's peers have done.
What we found:
Apple has destroyed nearly as many jobs as it helped create, eliminating some 490,570 positions.
Click here to see the jobs that Apple has destroyed
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
This chart shows that the China manufactures more in U.S. dollars now than the U.S.( if you take into account that china undervalues its currency by at least 20 times then you see why China manufactures 20 times what the U.S. does, 8 x the steel in tons, etc. The U.S. manufactured more steel in tons in 1953. Then we had a large % of the world steel production. now china has 44% of the steel production of the world. china is taking over the world. and even this chart shows that even in U.S. dollars china's manufacturing is skyrocketing.
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U.S manufactures 8.9 million cars per year. That is mostly workers screwing on parts made in China . So that is our “production”.
Finally, a fact. I was afraid you were unable to post one. Maybe you should compare how much we manufactured in 2000 and how much we manufacture now, with millions fewer workers? If you're able?
And as the imports from China and other places are increasing at an exponential rate
And maybe look up the definition of exponential?
You really things are ok since as you say we the U.S. produce more than anyone?
It's nice to see you haven't stopped putting words into my mouth.
the international socialists say we produce more than china
Reality is saying that we produce more.
OMG! You're confused.
look at a graph of manufacturing jobs as a percentage of population now only around 3% of population.
That few workers making so much stuff? Wow! How many Chinese work to make their stuff? Must be a lot more. Somewhere I heard 100 million Chinese, but the source is very (incredibly unbelievably) unreliable.
--and "this chart" is what some loony blogger says is "based on UN Data". That's fine if you believe everything the UN says about the collapse of the US, but there are other opinions:
Removing high taxes and regulations would remove the corprate fig leaf. No, the corps use those excuses to screw America.
Production of pig iron/steel is about half of what it was in 1940! China makes more steel than the rest of the world COMBINED. Nothing to see here, move along.
Yes, we could increase the production of steel beyond the point where it was profitable. Why would we want to do that?
Yes! So the government should force them to sell at a government set price. Buy supplies from government approved suppliers. Hire government approved workers. At government approved wages.
What could go wrong?
Last year, about $5.7 billion .
How much free tax payer money were they granted last year from the government to pursue business interests they were fully capable of funding themselves?
Too much. Corporate welfare should be eliminated.
How much steel do we need to make them?
That’s a funny thing to say, coming from the Chinese communist party ambassador for slave labor and ‘free trade’.
Come on, I wouldn’t call your recommendations funny.
Depend on your enemy for your security. There's a fine example of the free traitor globalist communist way
Yes that's true. China is on the way to conquering the U.S.A and many here as you can see on this thread are arguing against me because I am for stopping china, putting restrictions on those communists . I am for returning to the trade embargo that we had on China for 40 years of the cold war or least a partial embargo on many imported products. Funny how we didn't need China then and America was actually succeeding and far ahead of the world in technology , rising living standards , wealth etc.
You can try to make people think what you said, is somehow my opinion, but that’s awfully cowardly, and in keeping with the free traitor mentality.
The corruption in our government is reinforced by allowing politicians to ‘invest’ in the Chinese economy and products.
Look what a traitor Diane Feinstein has become with her shanghai real estate and steel mill investments.
Then the whole rotten ‘free trade’ system that our government uses to force companies offshore, or shut them down entirely. All because they are making money off the demise of America.
Now, here’s a funny story, the Chinese have bought an Arnold Palmer designed golf course in Monterey, California. They are paying him to design courses in china (bribe) and this one in Monterey is for the Chinese to have a place to make ‘business’ deals (their words). Not for recreation! I’m sure they bought it to invite that Leon Panetta to play and ‘do business’ for our military. It’s next door to the Pannetta Institute, funded by taxpayers. It means more compromised chips! Tracking devices! Poison products for the military like they sell us for pet food and toothpaste!
That’s ‘free trade’!
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