Actually, I like THIS chart better... since, it begins to indicate a possible SOURCE for our problems!
Posted on 05/03/2010 10:15:52 PM PDT by Neil E. Wright
It’s still my opinion that moving most of our manufacturing offshore was a suicide move. Number one, it cut good paying jobs out from under the U.S. public, and it gave China the income stream to grow into a bonafied global threat.
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The union costs are unsustainable. They've demanded so much, very few business can afford to give away anthing else. They moved overseas so their goods can be sold at a reasonable price and their stock holders can earn a living. What else could they have done? Unless we get rid of unionization, the problem is just going to keep getting worse. Their wanting never ends.
The companies did that because regardless of what the progressives claim, Washington puts voters demands ahead of job-creating-businesses by driving up expenses endlessly and companies out (look at lawsuits) .
In theory trade was supposed to create new jobs here but the China (PRC) of today is not the China of 1980. This China has a educated workforce that learns english and the government makes sure the country is long term business friendly(but not friendly to the individual citizen) , something you wont see in a democracy.
They cant vote for jobs, vote for raises, vote for health care....etc.
BTTT! Good post.
When you look at the numbers of actual union employees in the U.S. (especially manufacturing based jobs), you begin to realize this isn’t the driving force you probably thought it was.
The fact is, you can’t compete as a U.S. Citizen when foreigners will work for $0.25 cents an hour. The question always has been, do you want to support the job of the guy down the block who will contribute to your local economy, or would you like to support the foreign national whose nation will confiscate most if his income to build up a global threat to your nation?
Sadly, the issue was blurred by those wanting to make bigger profits off the backs of our unemployed, or underemployed.
horror show...that was last year...
financial Armageddon - you are witnessing history make sure your children learn the lesson and pass it on.
I don’t disagree with that, but I do think our focus should be repatriating jobs. We have 10% of our work force out of jobs, and we still bring in illegals and ship jobs off shore.
If this isn’t a big F U to the U.S. Citizen, I don’t know what would be.
No man should be used as another mans slave. No more politicians. No more social programs. Self sufficiency and free will charities are the only systems that ever work.
BTW : I don't think we actually ‘bring in’ illegals, they sneak in themselves :) We should lower LEGAL immigration quotas now.
Ironically Obama ran on ‘bringing the jobs back’ and has done everything he could to accelerate their losses. Anybody with any brains could see he had no plan to keep businesses here.
Look at how many democrats are on life time welfare because they've chosen 'life long vacation' as their life style choice, and we still bring in illegals to work. Why? Why not give those jobs to welfare recipients? Even if they pay lower wages, at least these people would be doing something to earn their keep. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to pick lettuce!
Look, we could stop the flow of illegal immigrants any time we desired to. My comment stands. Leaving the faucet open, then blaming the water for flowing through it doesn’t cut it for me.
BTW, I agree with your last comment.
RE :”Look, we could stop the flow of illegal immigrants any time we desired to. ‘
Heck, they are fleeing Arizona now, if not due to the law itself then because MSNBC is telling them the whole state is now a prison camp scaring the daylights out of them. I heard they are headed to CA to pick oranges just like that liberal 1930s Steinbeck novel the Grapes of ....
Actually, I like THIS chart better... since, it begins to indicate a possible SOURCE for our problems!
IMO, you are correct. And I would even urge growers to pay out substantially higher wages to their pickers. The picker cost is insignificant to the price you pay for a head of lettuce. Let someone earn a decent living picking lettuce and you’ll create a better life for your neighbors, even though you won’t be passing off that much cost to people who purchase your product. It really can be a win win.
And unlike the current situation, the earnings won't be sent off to a family in another country somewhere. They'll stay here and build our own economy back up.
I agree with you. A decent wage for farmworkers would mildly raise the price of food, but this “$5 lettuce” crap is just that: crap.
Excellent visually graphic graph, LOL.
Just one question - didn’t the Dems take back control of Congress in 2006???
Or did they just get control of the Senate and not the House?
...just askin’
Excellent question...
The Dems won control of BOTH houses in the Fall of 2006. By then, the Budget for FY2007 was already passed. The Dems took office in 2007, and then passed THEIR first budget later that year...
THEIR first Fiscal Year Budget, was FY2008.
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