Posted on 02/20/2016 2:42:33 AM PST by Helicondelta
The US consumer sees no benefit in moving production off shore. The fractional decrease in production costs goes to the stockholders and executive. Two reasons for this. Labor is a small part of the cost to manufacture, even when done on the USA, and greed.
You have to keep the left side of the bell curve working.
Offshoring does not lower prices. Just increases profits. Anyone can see that.
unmentioned was the Greenville-Spartanburg corridor.
BME makes cars there. There are industrial parks that sprang up to serve BMW. They have three flags..... Stars and stripes, South Carolina and some other country they call home. As these facilities and infrastructure developed, other non auto companies came in.
The new jobs are better than the textile work
Be nice if there was a political party dedicated to rolling back all of the government regulation. Certainly isn't the Republican Party or so called "movement Conservatives" either.
Go Trump, go!
These Free Traitors™ faux patriots constantly run around shouting about how we need to be self sufficient in oil and drill baby drill. Then these hypocrites want our means of production, the engine of wealth creation, off shored. I hate these people.
I was speaking g to evidence that trump opposes free trade with more than cheap words.
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.
Am I to understand your solution would be to legally bar American industry from manufacturing anywhere else in the world for re-import to the American market? Wouldn't it follow that no imported goods at all should be allowed, by edict, in addition?
Contrary to your premise, one of the few things preventing further punitive regulations and industrial exodus is the fact that corporations now have this right. The decision to move is usually move or die, and the jobs would be reduced, if not lost altogether, anyway, unless imported goods were also banned.
The consumer is always ignored, forgotten completely in these discussions. Walmart has done more good for the country's poor than all the liberal anti-poverty programs combined. Walmart would have to go, with your plan, no?
Offshoring doesn't lower prices it increases profit margins.
In the absence of competition, yes.
UPC COA
The Unrealistic Purist Conservative Church of America
He and I disagree from time to time (we agree far more than we disagree, like you and I do xzins), but it's rare that we don't shed light on each other.
Scorched earth goes both ways.
CEW has been rude to me for months.
I’ve been a Christian about it.
But I don’t trust him anymore.
I hope you can come to some kind of truce. Sometimes agreeing to disagree is the best way to go.
You're both fine posters, and apparently very decent and accomplished people. Two of the best FR has to offer.
Just my 2 cents.
Someone gets it, I see.
UPC COA
The Unrealistic Purist Conservative Church of America
AKA as the “I Walk on Water” cult.
I”m not running for President. It’s not me you should not trust. It’s someone who’s been far far far far more flaky than I who is that you support.
dear Lord - that’s UPC.
Go ahead and live in your world of doing deals with Schumer and other profoundly evil agents of the devil while claiming your faith. Go ahead and support the crony shameful thing known as ethanol, which is government theft - and claim your faith. Go ahead and excuse Planned Parenthood and proclaim your faith.
You need to take a long long look in the mirror.
it’s not purity, that’s bullshit false equivalency. You are out of ammo and cornered with your own supposed beliefs due to a personality cult.
It's so much simpler to run with the mob and blame it all on free trade.
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