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Posted on 05/24/2014 11:38:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“undocumented workers” losing their jobs. good.
Agriculture is 2% of CA GDP
Our economy took a fast boat to China with unbalanced trade deals. Restore MADE IN USA or kiss our economy goodbye.
I’m surprised you came in first with that.
I was expecting a poster — CNN to come up with that.
American imports of Chinese-made goods in 2013: 440 billion dollars.
Chinese imports of American-made goods in 2013: 122 billion dollars.
America needs to bring back American jobs.
It’s not just me.
America is buying tons of stuff from overseas.
American corporations have completely sold out. Bring back jobs to the USA.
This will become more important to an ever-growing portion of America, until we gain enough votes to do something in response to this massive unbalance.
Just saying.
Rebalance now, or have things rebalanced later.
Didn’t Obama already explain all this? Isn’t it the result of telephone switchboard operators losing jobs to automated switching equipment?
#3, Staples decline, could just be due to less paper and stationery purchased due to e-documents, emails, and “cloud” e-filing.
Everything else on list is worrisome!
There is a reason more Americans are poor and more Chinese are driving Lamborghinis.
There’s also a reason countries like China, India, Europe, and Saudi Arabia spend hundreds of millions on lobbyists in the US Congress.
“Restore MADE IN USA or kiss our economy goodbye.”
People are fond of saying this as if we could flip a switch or change a law or trade agreement and it would happen. The government at many levels is the reason these jobs have left. The city, county, state or federal EPA inspector can spot a suspicious puddle on your manufacturing floor and order your plant closed. Just complying with the thousands of pages of their regulations costs millions of dollars. Then there’s OSHA and a host of other regulatory agencies whose real purpose is to shut your plant down. (Not on paper, but this is where the anti-corporate zealots work.) On top of that there are countless labor regulations any one of which could cost you multi-million dollar fines. And, of course the federal government will pay all the legal fees so people of color (is it okay to say that?) can sue you because they feel discriminated against. So, why did companies flee here by the million? Not because of cheap labor. For most, that was the smallest reason. But it’s always the one focused on by the media. They fled because the business environment has gone total-California.
To bring back business you’d literally have to fire all the regulatory agencies.
I’ve written about this before. An 18 year of girl from one of the EPA’s (not sure which one) came to inspect. She asked questions indicating she’d probably never been in a plant before. She seemed totally paranoid that we (a small quantity generator) were trying to pull a fast one. It seems she had it in her head that all of us evil corporations were contaminating the water and breeding Godzilla’s and she’d be the one held responsible for not catching and stopping us. I’ve never seen management sweat so hard.
Now, the company had its own legal teams and they’d be really hard to shut for very long. But the fear I witnessed spoke volumes about the tiny companies who don’t have lawyers on tap and buckets of money to spend.
I've visited many local area communities and see the same everywhere, many long time businesses, local and national, are gone or going out of business. Even when you see a new business come in, it's not enough to replace those that have closed. The new ones also put more pressure on the similar existing businesses as the economy still sucks.
I just don't understand these liberals and the liberals in the media. When they can look around and see these things happening before their eyes. They'd rather blame Bush for all the problems but they, themselves, have been in power since they took over congress in around 2006. Which means they have had plenty of time to fix things but they have made it worse.
You liberals and the liberal media that reads here, YOU are responsible for making things worse in this country, NOW, humble yourselves, get the hell out of the way and let the conservatives fix it by going back to the limited government the Constitution allows.
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I’m afraid that instead of being rob of your Reeboks by some thug when you walk out of the mall, we’re going to be robbed of our hamburger meat when we walk out of Kroger’s.
“I’ve visited many local area communities and see the same everywhere, many long time businesses, local and national, are gone or going out of business. “
A friend who speaks little English wanted his septic tank pumped. I got the yellow pages and called the first five companies. All, out of business. You’d think that if business was bad you’d just keep the company open and take a part time job. But you can’t. You have to have bonds and insurance and benefits and forty hour weeks and you have to pay taxes and license fees. If you’re not making x-thousand dollars a month you can’t keep your company. You have to fold.
To get somebody to drive out to my home to look at the air-conditioning, which isn’t cooling as well as it should, costs $250...just to come out. Then if I use their service that $250 comes off the cost. But I know from an employee who works for a contractor that they’ve been instructed to sell stuff we don’t need. So, instead of Freon I’ll be told that I need a new unit for $5,000 or so. Why? Because the companies have such a high government mandated fixed cost. If they don’t cheat they won’t stay in business.
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