NC bleeds more manufacturing jobs and there isn't a thing we can do about it.
Because this is a serious issue I'm going to resist the urge to ask what special furnature Hookers use.....
They'll have to use their cars now, like normal hookers.
If CAFTA is supposed to export jobs like NAFDA, I am if favor of it. Since NAFTA our national unemployment rate has remained around 5 percent. Maybe Europe should adopt similar trade agreements (hint they don't and their unemployment rates stay around 10 percent).
And if we are exporting so many jobs, why are some many illegals coming to America to work?
They need a sexier name. That's the problem.
But Dude, were getting Dell!
Total non-farm industry employment across North Carolina increased by 10,800 over the past month and by 72,800 from a year ago.
While I feel for the folks losing their jobs, it's business.............supply and demand.
Looks pretty good to me.
Headline:
"Pleasant Garden less pleasant after Hooker takes a walk."
Economic analysis consists of examining ALL of the consequences of an action, both good and bad, both immediate and future, for both producers and consumers.
The "action" here is a reduction of the taxes imposed on imported furniture, and the elimination of "import quotas" from countries with a lower cost of labor.
That means that North Carolina producers will either lower prices or quit making things that Off-shore producers can make for less. Bad for them. Bad for the cities where the producers currently reside. Highly visible.
That means a consumer can buy one of those fancy chests for $100 less than the current prices charged by North Carolina manufacturers. Good for them. Not highly visible, because the consumers are spread nation wide, and there are no interviews with the newly satisfied consumers.
So, like most proposed government interventions into the economy, there are some highly concentrated high visibility losers showing real pain, and advocating the intervention; while the proposed winners don't even know there is an issue until they walk into a furniture showroom and look at the prices.
The end result is, if they were going to buy anyhow, they now have money to buy something else that might be manufactured here. So they wind up with "more total stuff" for the same amount of spending, and that is very good for them.
It appears to me that the North Carolina mill workers are claiming the "divine right of stagnation" -- if they have a job now, they should have that job for the rest of their lives; and that the government should enforce that right by using force. That is not something I, as a consumer, am prepared to agree to.
I just want more "stuff".
As you should be well aware by now, our nation's furniture and associated wood products and textile industries have been decimated by unfavorable trade policies. While the impact has been the hardest in Virginia and the Carolinas where much of the industry was located, there are MANY examples of similar furniture/wood products/textile facilities being shutdown throughout the United States.
On the eve when CAFTA is being debated in Congress, this article is a legitimate vehicle for forum participants to discuss this issue. Please restore this thread to its original placement in News/Activism. It does not belong in "Chat".