Posted on 01/08/2009 4:25:05 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I'll concede that. Unfortunately, all we ever seem to hear about are the extremes.
You've got that for sure. We hear about a plane that crashes but nobody talks about the 100,000 planes that didn't. No problem; we live in an age were we can ditch the news-biz and find this stuff out on our own.
Export of American goods is a good thing. Export of American jobs is a bad thing. Import of foreign goods is a bad thing. Import of foreign workers when millions of Americans cannot find jobs is a bad thing.
No American jobs have been exported except in the minds of those who lack the understanding of what business do.
The function of a business is to make a profit for the owners. The function of a business is not to provide jobs. Companies employ workers to perform tasks necessary to develop sales and earn a profit. If the manufacturing process is unable to produce at a price where the product can be sold at a consistant profit the business or manufacturing process will close. The workers will be laid off. The jobs will cease to exist.
The company can create new manufacturing in a different location where costs, includung labor cost, are less. The jobs are created elsewhere but they are not exported. By this process, the textile industry deserted the river mill towns of the north and reestablished its self and grew tremendously in the south. That process repeated except the southern plants closed because they could not compete.
America has imported goods since day one. There is nothing bad about importing. If the imported goods are less expensive and of adequate quality, there will be a market and sales. Imports are good and support the economy by
supplementing it with goods it is unable to competitively produce.
Americans love imports because they are good and they are cheap.
Finally, until now, we are a capitalist nation, not a socialist state. We employ capital to create businesses and we employ labor as required to make the businesses run. You will may get your wish as we become socialist as per your desires.
My, my, my. Or in the minds of those who have seen their manufacturing plant moved to Mexico. Or in the minds of those who have seen their service center moved to India. Or in the minds of those who understand that Keynesian economics is fatally flawed.
The function of a business is to make a profit for the owners.
Of course.
the textile industry deserted the river mill towns of the north and reestablished its self and grew tremendously in the south.
To the obvious detriment to the economies of the river mill towns of the North, and to the obvious advantage to the South.
America has imported goods since day one.
True.
There is nothing bad about importing.
False.
Finally, until now, we are a capitalist nation, not a socialist state.
Until now? Actually, I think of the US as a decreasingly free market nation. The erosian has been picking up steam for a century.
The Republican party has been controlled by Rockefeller Republicans for at least 20 years. In collusion with liberal Democrats, it has become profitable for American companies to export jobs. This is a bad thing. A return to a sensible free market would make it unprofitable for American companies to export jobs. This would be a good thing. But it will only happen if conservatives gain control of the Republican party.
You will may get your wish as we become socialist as per your desires.
My, my, my. Your presumptions about me are ludicrous.
As we have pointed out over and over again the damage done to the patent office under Clinton with an assist from Republicans in Congress became worse under Bush and a Republican Congress.
We have done everything to drive inventors from our shores as far as giving formation capital to their inventions and allowing them the great profits they deserve.
Unless that is reversed no such ideas as advanced by Chuck can succeed. Since we have been banned from World Net Daily no one is pointing this out, in energy or any other vital area. Markets, no matter how much you “bail them out” do not create wealth. They only trade it around.
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