I’m not really wiling to pay $15 for a toothbrush or $1500 for a smart phone made in the USA. Our labor costs has priced us out of most of. The manufacturing needed to maintain ourselves.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not really in the mood to slave away on some assembly line making worthless crap either.
You figure out the solution to those two problems and you will be amazed at how the “evils” of free trade just solve themselves.
Wanna know how much the price of a iPhone might go up if it were produced here rather than the PRC?
About $25.
People mistakenly think that the big reason for moving production off-shore is the price of the labor. In consumer electronics, it isn’t. It’s the currency arb, easy tax environment and the ability to site everything in the supply chain within close proximity.
And getting those jobs filled is easy. There are people lining up hundreds deep to work in slaughterhouses when they raid illegals out of the slaughterhouses, they’ll line up even deeper to work on an assembly line where you’re not knee-deep in blood and guts all day.