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1/3 of South Carolina’s Manufacturing Jobs Have Disappeared Since NAFTA
breitbart.com ^ | February 19

Posted on 02/20/2016 2:42:33 AM PST by Helicondelta

1/3 of South Carolina's Manufacturing Jobs Have Disappeared Since NAFTA AP Photo/Paul SancyaAP Photo/Paul Sancya by JULIA HAHN 19 Feb 2016 919 At a CNN town hall Thursday, businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump once again put the issue of manufacturing front and center in the 2016 race.

When CNN's Anderson Cooper pressed Trump on whether a U.S. president ought to be sending cease and desist letters and whether he would continue to do so as president, Trump said, "maybe to China" -- pointing out the extraordinary job losses Americans have experienced through trade policies:

No... I would be sending them to China to stop ripping us off. I would be sending them to other countries to stop ripping us off. I'd send them to Mexico. And when I say cease and desist, maybe it's equivalent, OK? Maybe I do it with my mouth.

Federal data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests Trump's argument on ending one-sided trade deals may resonate in South Carolina. According to the federal data, South Carolina lost 1/3 of its manufacturing jobs since U.S. signed NAFTA in 1994.

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To: driftdiver

That won’t last forever....


21 posted on 02/20/2016 3:55:05 AM PST by Kozak (ALLAH AKBAR = HEIL HITLER)
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To: wayoverontheright

-And what’s more, heavy-handed regulations on the part of EPA, OSHA, and the IRS,...... Obamacare, labor unions, double-taxation of foreign profits, racial and gender quotas, legal hamstringing of hiring processes, affirmative action, high corporate income taxes, irrational product liability court decisions, along with entrenched subsidies to favored industries, Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes Oxley, and the massive anti-capitalist funds supporting the vilification of commercial progress and NIMBY anti-construction movements in this country.......... have absolutely nothing to do with the loss of South Carolina manufacturing jobs since 1994.-

That is the most complete summation of the anti-business regulations and agendas I have seen. Nice work.


22 posted on 02/20/2016 3:58:40 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: ronnie raygun

I believe Mr. Bill signed NAFTA with Bob Dull’s blessing.


23 posted on 02/20/2016 4:17:20 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Theodore R.
NAFTA was signed by George Bush as a lame duck in December 1992.

It was ratified by the Senate in 1993, and Clinton signed the related Federal legislation that was needed for the U.S. to meet its terms before it became effective in 1994.

24 posted on 02/20/2016 4:21:06 AM PST by Alberta's Child (Bye bye, William Frawley!)
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To: Helicondelta

Those were Massachusetts jobs first.


25 posted on 02/20/2016 4:51:16 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: wayoverontheright
NAFTA made it possible for industries to avoid all the things you mention by moving overseas instead of putting their heavy lobbying money behind fighting them. It's a lot easier to just buy a few more votes for another "free trade" bill than to fight an entrenched bureaucracy and those who are inclined to fight such bureaucracies aren't inclined to support the liberal secular agenda the wealthy heads of industry love so much.

All that crap you list would have never gotten as bad as it has become if industry didn't have the option to move offshore.

26 posted on 02/20/2016 5:10:53 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Helicondelta

It’s not just NAFTA but the EPA and SC coal mines.

Just as Cruz wants to end the Ethanol subsidies, this is what he said about Coal.

SC has coal mines that 0’s EPA is after, Cruz on Coal
https://soundcloud.com/waaradio/wayne-dupree-show-gop-candidate-ted-cruz-delivers-promise-to-coal-industry


27 posted on 02/20/2016 5:11:52 AM PST by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: DB

It is already happening. Read a story of a company that made the concrete truck drums that now only has one person there mainly to just be a physical presence and does nothing but just live on site. Everything else is rusting away.


28 posted on 02/20/2016 5:13:20 AM PST by mazda77
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To: DB

How about he brings home the jobs from China that makes his Tie line? http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/07/01/donald-trump-china-made-ties-sotu-intv.cnn

Haven’t seen where he’s gone after Nabisco for moving Oreo’s to Mexico.

While decrying Apple’s refusal to decode what the government changed password on his IPhone.

I think the word Hypocrite comes to mind.


29 posted on 02/20/2016 5:18:19 AM PST by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: Helicondelta

this is sort of misleading

the textile industry that migrated to SC from New England to where it had migrated from England, migrated to Bangladesh and elsewhere but not primarily to Mexico.

It was not NAFTA that moved the textile industry


30 posted on 02/20/2016 5:22:24 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: Lisbon1940

Before they were Massachusetts jobs, they were English jobs


31 posted on 02/20/2016 5:24:45 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: driftdiver

Dollars for us, not for them. Far different from what is the norm now. But then again, I suppose your solution is to do no deals at all to turn the tables?

He made deals to benefit his business, nobody denies that. But he sees what those bad trade deals are doing to his and every other business out there in what they have to do to compete. He totally understands that without at least leveling the playing field it will only get worse. He also understands that as it does, it not only affects his heirs but also those of an entire nation.

He has said that he tried to effect changes through the political network but has now determined that is not going to happen and his “investments” into them to effect the changes necessary only made the matters worse. So, he finally decided the only way was to put his fortune at stake to take it directly to the people. The only way it will change is through We The People.


32 posted on 02/20/2016 5:25:20 AM PST by mazda77
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To: Helicondelta

I wonder if those companies are the same ones that exited the Midwest for South Carolina a few years earlier.


33 posted on 02/20/2016 5:43:45 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: bert

Yep. Textiles not the basis of modern economy.


34 posted on 02/20/2016 6:02:15 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

>> Free-trade is just wonderful

Free-trade doesn’t exist.

Just ask the slave laborers owned by Der Trumpenflipper’s Communist Chinese bidness partners.

You having any luck enumerating those principles yet?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3398671/posts?page=44#44


35 posted on 02/20/2016 6:02:20 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: Lisbon1940

Yep. Textiles not the basis of modern economy.


why not?


36 posted on 02/20/2016 6:04:50 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Alberta's Child

>>China doesn’t really “devalue” its currency. It’s hard to devalue a currency that is already worthless.

There’s more to it than just that, but it is essentially what they do. As someone else stated upthread, they are giving stuff away and paying the freight.

They do it to give their work force something to do. They are engaged in something that is considered “evil” in today’s America: they are looking out for THEIR OWN best interests, and that even includes the interests of the workers.

They could just give away Free Stuff and let most of their people sit around with nothing to do but gripe and take the handouts and then all these people on the dole could do #PeasantLivesMatter marches.

But China has chosen to put them to work.

We give away all of our low-skill work, then make college expensive and enslave the poor to student loans that cannot be written off for any reason other than death.

Using the business theories of the early 20th century (before automation and cheap computers), our plans for shipping all low-skill, Stage 3 work overseas is sound. But the hidden costs to society have killed us as a nation. The various theories of business, globalization, and organizational behavior have evolved over the last 3 centuries, but we are afraid to admit that the 1970-era models of business might be due for another update.


37 posted on 02/20/2016 6:06:06 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: DB
The Smoot-Hawley myth is not hard to debunk. All it takes is to look at the actually data from the 1930's and draw your own logical conclusions from that data. Trade, both import and export, was a tiny part of the overall economy during the depressed 30's. Smoot-Hawley's impact after subtracting trade's $3Billion from the entire GDP($50Billion) economy could not have worsened the economy much at all. Due to it's small overall portion of GDP, trade restrictions could NOT have the "devastating" effect the "learned" economics that IMO have an agenda profess. Ask yourself this, if your paycheck were cut by 4% would that cause you to go broke and loose everything? Would it cause you and your family a personal devastating Great Depression lasting a decade? I think not.

But back to the data. Look at the chart below. Notice that net trade hardly changed after Smoot-Hawley passage. We've been sold a bill of goods deal so with it, correct your misunderstanding and move on.


38 posted on 02/20/2016 6:12:00 AM PST by central_va
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To: PeterPrinciple

U.S. labor costs too much. U.S. consumer wants cheap clothes.


39 posted on 02/20/2016 6:14:03 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: wayoverontheright

Carrie has been in the news because of their planned move to Mexico. The average wage at their plant in IA was $18.00. When asked the CEO couldn’t name any regulations that were causing them to move.


40 posted on 02/20/2016 6:14:27 AM PST by central_va
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