Posted on 04/09/2025 10:41:59 AM PDT by daniel1212
Clinton killed it....
Perhaps we can go further and blame kissinger
Deep State?
Try Sam Walton. With Clinton’s blessing he looked to use China to make his store label products at a much lower price than rivals. His success in growing his business set up a tidal wave of imitators.major brands followed as they lost sales to Walton.
The NLRB and the EPA. Given our cheap energy manufacturing never would have left if it wasn’t for eco-Nazis and unionists, aided of course be leftists in government.
“The NLRB and the EPA. Given our cheap energy manufacturing never would have left if it wasn’t for eco-Nazis and unionists, aided of course be leftists in government.”
SPOT ON!
Good and tight comment! We all know “be” is “by”.
Allowing China entry into the World Trade Organization was what killed USA manufacturing jobs.
NAFTA and the Giant Sucking Sound with jobs going to Mexico was the other major factor.
Between the two there was no reason for a corporation selling their product in the USA to make it in the USA unless the freight was prohibitive.
We got so wealthy because we exported to the rest of the world, and that enabled our mass production, low-skilled, and semi-skilled workers to have a standard of living, including long-term and pension benefits, that has never been seen before or since by production workers.
The problem was that it was all enabled by an export-dominant economy that was not sustainable. Money that should have been invested in modernizing factories was instead spent on unsustainable, locked-in union benefits and inefficient boondoggles like the "job banks".
Our steel and auto industries aren't dying because of low wage competition. They're dying because the factories are largely old, out of data, and inefficient. The Japanese wanted to buy US Steel, invest some billions, and make competitive steel here in the U.S., but Trump and Biden both opposed that deal.
Good answer.
Yeah, “free trade” and other things.
Creation of the UAW didn’t help any. Pay someone $35/hr for 25 years. They retire and continue getting that pay for 25-35 years, plus benefits. Same as having paid them $70-80/hr for the 25 years.
Add regulations from the EPA, rules from OSHA. Call it $100/hr
Mexico $10/hr?
China $4/hr?
If anything you said is true, then Red China should have gone under decades ago.
No: we lost our manufacturing base due to leftist traitors in DC.
IMO===UNIONS
Triffin’s Delema effect following capitulation at the defact end of Breton Woods system in 1972.
IIRC-—SAM WALTON NEVER USED CHINESE ITEMS.
THAT CHANGED WHEN HE DIED & THE KIDS TOOK OVER.
Congress-both houses, AND their Confederate lobbyists!!!
State legislators and their gaggle of lobbyists.
Mayors, eldermen, the whole lot of them.
And all the time, all those Democrats with their cans of Pabst blue ribbon, their red bandanas, and white socks, claiming they are for the working man!
US "guidance counselors" in high schools, who themselves only knew of the college route sent and are sending a LOT of gullible students in the wrong direction.
I’d say it’s a combination of things. Federal and state government laws and regulations, and union and corporate greed. Outrageous.
It all started going downhill with Carter and high energy prices. That and US car companies producing crappy cars and union strikes.
“Hate to say this, but Nixon started it with opening up China.”
Except 90% of the posters here would have agreed with Nixon back then because they saw friending China as a counterbalance to the USSR
It was the fed...
It was both republiCAN’Ts and democommies...
It was all about abolishing the middle class...
Sad part is they darn near succeeded
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