Posted on 07/23/2010 3:37:45 PM PDT by ex-Texan
*Ping* !
That’s right, send them all to the Gulag . . . eh, comrade?
Conservatives tend to hate the idea that companies can be traitorous, but all the outsourcing and so on just flat out is. Sure it’s good for the short term, but they’re killing the golden goose. Frankly, they’ve already killed, roasted, and ate it.
That seems to be the way it's working out.
Sometimes it is a zero sum game, sadly. The tide’s lifting the but the US is weighed down by lousy government and businesses.
No it was helped a lot by idiots who watch TV. TV, hollywood and the lib newsmedia put the marxist in power. Idiots still watching ball games where the NFL, NCAA, MBL, NBA and ESPEN endlessly fawn over him. I cancelled TV over a year ago.
Fox/Saudia - partially owned by the Saudis.
I’m not sure if it’s so clear cut.
If the choice is between keeping manufacturing jobs in the US with union employees, government environmental restrictions, and going out of business,
or moving manufacturing jobs abroad so you continue to employee American management, office workers, sales representatives, truck drivers, and give payments to your retiree American stock holders, option B is a bit better.
As a result of the decision to discontinue the Sterling brand, the St. Thomas, Ontario, plant will cease truck manufacturing operations in March 2009, concurrent with the expiration of the existing agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers members employed there. The plant manufactures Sterling medium- and heavy-duty trucks.Funny, no word on those evil Carolinians for stealing Oregon's jobs (not that I saw).DTNA will also close the Portland, Oregon, truck manufacturing plant in June 2010, when current labor contracts expire. Western Star commercial production will be assigned to the company’s Santiago, Mexico plant, while production of Freightliner-branded military vehicles will take place at one of the company’s manufacturing facilities in the Carolinas by mid-year 2010. A migrating supplier base and high logistics costs have had a major impact on the cost of production in this location.
press release, October 14, 2008.
dittos — Free trade NAFTA WTO has always been a scam where the elites make billions and US workers lose jobs. All those jobs sent to Asia would come in handy right now
I would have put up a tariff wall years ago
Free trade under those circumstances is nothing less than suicide.
Free trade under those circumstances is nothing less than suicide.
Not to worry...We are a superpower when it comes to lawyers. More lawyers and less manufacturing.
Your friends in the U.S. Congress are working on it:
Mexico's decision to impose tariffs on dozens of U.S. products could cost Oregon exporters tens of millions of dollars.Last one standing wins, isn't that what the retards say?
It’s pretty obvious that the business and government elites consider tariffs as the ultimate no-go. Why? It would produce more jobs here and cost them an arm and a leg. Result? Dead middle class.
That story is about Mexico imposing tariffs for their own benefit it seems. Kinda proves the point, doesn’t it?
The converse is true
Tariffs mean a larger more powerful American middle class involved in manufacturing, engineering and design plus all the businesses that support manufacturing such as accountants. And less powerful elites and fewer billionaires. These tariffs should have been put in 20 years ago. I was reading books on this 23 years. But greed, dishonor and laziness won out. Let the Asian slaves make it for us cheaper was/is the attitude
I don’t know about that.
Business was lost because workers were too greedy. Think Unions and union wages.
Business was lost because the government was too greedy. All the regulations and “law like rules” handed out and used to harass business.
Business was lost to the environmentalist progressives over the past few decades.
Business was lost to overseas...because elements in our culture made and forced business to choose friendlier places to do business.
Business didn’t go to Galt’s Gulch, but they went Galt.
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