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DISTURBING fact about government workers shows Trump was right on this point all along…
Allen West ^ | 1/9/2016 | The Analytical Economist

Posted on 01/09/2016 7:23:10 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

It's a good thing Trump wants to rebuild our manufacturing base, because it truly has taken a hit. We've turned from a nation of builders to burger flippers.

To put in perspective just how bad things have gotten - there were more Americans employed in manufacturing in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor than there are today, despite the fact that the population then was a fraction of what it is today.

In that time, there was 1 person employed in manufacturing for every 10.6 people in the overall population compared to 1 person employed in government for every 26.1 people in the overall population.

Oh how things have changed. As CNS News reported:

Those employed by government in the United States in August of this year outnumbered those employed in the manufacturing sector by almost 1.8 to 1, according to data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

There were 21,995,000 employed by federal, state and local government in the United States in August, according to BLS. By contrast, there were only 12,329,000 employed in the manufacturing sector.

The 2015 Federal budget spends an unprecedented $3.7 trillion which leaves us with a deficit of over half a trillion dollars.

Trump's plan to restore the manufacturing base consists of placing tariffs on Chinese goods and reducing our relatively high corporate tax rate which incentivizes businesses to set up overseas.

There's a huge opportunity to kill two birds with one stone here. Shrink the government, and when people ask where those former government employees are going to work we'll have some nice manufacturing jobs waiting for them.

(Excerpt) Read more at allenbwest.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bfac; economy; election2016; elections; employment; governmentworkers; immigration; jobs; manufacturing; newyork; trump; trumpwasright
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To: DoodleDawg
Maybe the stuff made in tennessee will actually work?

Let me ask you, if you're for unregulated markets, does that extend to the labor market?

121 posted on 01/10/2016 11:55:37 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Also, as this source of revenue went up, other taxation could then decrease.


122 posted on 01/10/2016 11:55:58 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Or,

Operation Trump Force Trauma 2016


123 posted on 01/10/2016 11:59:27 AM PST by IChing
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To: HiTech RedNeck
This is not the whole picture: it also pushes wages back into the USA and makes it feasible for there to be enough manufacturing in the USA that it can still compete amongst itself while still there.

Which is nice for the manufacturers but I'm still paying more for my TV.

Keep in mind that the pre income tax Federal government was all funded from tariffs too. Somehow that didn’t push a whole land into poverty.

That was long before Social Security and Medicare and $600 billion dollar defense budgets and all the rest.

You like cheap China stuff bad enough, go to China and live there and use it. OK?

I like living here, thanks anyway.

124 posted on 01/10/2016 12:01:10 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Trailerpark Badass
Maybe the stuff made in tennessee will actually work?

Maybe it won't.

Let me ask you, if you're for unregulated markets, does that extend to the labor market?

In most cases. And since you're not for unregulated markets does that include labor markets?

125 posted on 01/10/2016 12:02:46 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

But your taxes will be less just from a static tariff offset, as well as there now being a new source of other taxes (the new employees).

So in the end you win.


126 posted on 01/10/2016 12:02:52 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Also, as this source of revenue went up, other taxation could then decrease.

Raising my taxes in one area and maybe lowering them in another doesn't mean I'm coming out ahead.

127 posted on 01/10/2016 12:04:36 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: rockinqsranch

If this happens, it’ll be interesting to observe how former government employees will adapt to manufacturing jobs. They might have to get off their assess and actually do some work. It’ll be a culture shock for ‘em.

I worked for local government for several years. I’d come home at night and have a meltdown after dealing with people who spent more time and effort to get out of working than they’d have done by just working.


128 posted on 01/10/2016 12:04:45 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (TDS: Hating Trump more than loving America.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Markets should be biased unless we want to define ourselves as economic doormat. Case by case exceptions can be negotiated forever under a trust-but-verify regime. And nobody proposes putting a lid on voluntary charity. But none of this enforced naked to our rival stuff.


129 posted on 01/10/2016 12:04:52 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DoodleDawg

You come out ahead by getting people off welfare.


130 posted on 01/10/2016 12:05:14 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DoodleDawg

You come out ahead by getting YOUR CLOSEST NEIGHBORS off welfare.


131 posted on 01/10/2016 12:06:12 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DoodleDawg
In most cases. And since you're not for unregulated markets does that include labor markets?

I never said I wasn't. How nice for you to assume. Have a great day!

132 posted on 01/10/2016 12:06:35 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
But your taxes will be less just from a static tariff offset, as well as there now being a new source of other taxes (the new employees).

Or my income taxes might remain the same and the tariff will be added. Or my income taxes might go down but not enough to offset the increase I pay due to tariffs. Who knows what might happen?

So in the end you win.

Or not.

133 posted on 01/10/2016 12:07:21 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: HiTech RedNeck
You come out ahead by getting people off welfare.

How does that make me ahead?

134 posted on 01/10/2016 12:08:30 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

The most popular politicians, except for the parasite class panderers, keep on offering ways to cut the taxes.

And if you bring more workers home... voila! Less parasite class.


135 posted on 01/10/2016 12:08:56 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
You come out ahead by getting YOUR CLOSEST NEIGHBORS off welfare.

My closest neighbors are farmers.

136 posted on 01/10/2016 12:09:05 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

How does having a welfare slum near you affect you not.

Hmmm (scratches head)


137 posted on 01/10/2016 12:09:27 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DoodleDawg

And if they were, are they farmers clear to the horizon of those who can travel to you and give you trouble?


138 posted on 01/10/2016 12:09:54 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
How does having a welfare slum near you affect you not.

I don't have one. Besides I thought the point of this article was turning all those government workers into factory workers, not welfare slum dwellers.

139 posted on 01/10/2016 12:11:40 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

You might as well be a ShortsightedDawg.

Losing a work ethic means something indelible while the loss is going on.


140 posted on 01/10/2016 12:12:29 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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