Posted on 11/04/2016 8:47:49 AM PDT by Leaning Right
As another month passes, the great schism inside the American labor force get wider. We are referring to the unprecedented divergence between the total number of high-paying manufacturing jobs, and minimum-wage food service and drinking places jobs, also known as waiters and bartenders.
In October, according to the BLS, while the number of people employed by "food services and drinking places" rose by another 10,000, the US workforce lost another 9,000 manufacturing workers.
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Yeah, and how many people working 2-3 jobs.
The promised Summer of Recovery still seems delayed — I guess it’s time to Hurry Up and Waiter.
Free Traitors will tell you that this is a good thing. Why? because they are traitors.
Have we added them or have they gone on to something else…
and were just replaced
Welfare or a different job
The Democrat’s knock against Reagan’s economic policies was that it would only produce service industry jobs and of course they were wrong.
This is a result of their own failed policies from environmental protections, trade, immigration, and right on down the line.
There was talk decades ago that the US economy was headed toward a more service-oriented economy. Maybe that’s because we were in the midst of farming manufacturing jobs out to foreign countries. Anyway . . . the world is changing quickly in some respects, not so quickly in others. What happens if we delegate all the labor to robots and just have a work force to maintain the robots. LOL.
Jobs for job’s sakes is no way for a country to approach life and culture in general. The purpose of a job is not just to make money and get ahead, but to serve others including one’s family.
Yep. Fair trade is a good thing, like between the U.S. and Germany. It's a level playing field. But "free trade" will destroy this country. The evidence is already there.
Thank goodness that at least one major political figure (Trump) realizes this.
Automated factories in the the third world exporting to the USA - Bad.
70,000 factories in the USA have shut down.
We’ve got to run the establishment elitists out of Washington. They’ve crushed our nation. Not only that but so many of the jobs we have left are being taken by illegals. We have to drain the swamp now or it’s too late.
The vast majority of new jobs over the past several years have been part time and minimum wage jobs.
Let’s say we rebuild our military to a 1000 ship Navy and a 30 division Army. What good are they if the USA lacks the viable industrial base to back them up in case of a protracted war of attrition? We are a paper tiger .
I'm going to get philosophical. Perhaps automated factories are the problem. Global civilization seems to be on a near-unstoppable trajectory to total collapse. We're in an environment where folks with too much time on their hands are destroying everything they can. We have a global elite that recognizes that the only way to control the idle masses is a total loss of our freedoms.
Would it be better if machines did less and people had to do more for their survival? If governments and means of production were closer to the people they serve? If people had to be accountable for their health and well-being? If actions had consequences based on an accepted moral code and the rule of law? I suspect so.
Let’s get this straight, too: The USA has been trading with foreign countries from it’s inception.
Speaking for myself that fact that I am a nationalist and pro American industry does not make me a Luddite.
Let’s get this straight, the first congress enacted the Tariff Act of 1789. Tariffs funded the govt successfully until the progressive globalists took over in 1913. Free Traitors are woefully ignorant of US history.
Really now, were there more waiters or factory workers on the original Titanic? Let the band play on!
Really now, were there more waiters or factory workers on the original Titanic? Let the band play on!
Words are not deeds. Unfortunately, a look at the (Reagan) record leads to the question: With free traders like this, who needs protectionists?
Consider that the administration has done the following:
— Forced Japan to accept restraints on auto exports. The agreement set total Japanese auto exports at 1.68 million vehicles in 1981-82, 8 percent below 1980 exports. Two years later the level was permitted to rise to 1.85 million.(33) Clifford Winston of the Brookings Institution found that the import limits have actually cost jobs in the U.S. auto industry by making it possible for the sheltered American automakers to raise prices and limit production. In 1984, Winston writes in Blind Intersection? Policy and the Automobile Industry, 32,000 jobs were lost, U.S. production fell by 300,000 units, and profits for U.S. firms increased $8.9 billion. The quotas have also made the Japanese firms potentially more formidable rivals because they have begun building assembly plants in the United States.(34) They also shifted production to larger cars, introducing to American firms competition they did not have before the quotas were created. In 1984, it was estimated that higher prices for domestic and imported cars cost consumers $2.2 billion a year.(35) At the height of the dollar’s exchange rate with the yen in 1984-85, the quotas were costing American consumers the equivalent of $11 billion a year.(36)
— Tightened up considerably the quotas on imported sugar. Imports fell from an annual average of 4.85 million tons in 1979-81 to an annual average of 2.86 million tons in 1982-86. Not only did this continued practice force Americans to spend more than other consumers for sugar, but it created hardships for Latin American countries and the Philippines, which depend on sugar exports for economic development. The quota program undermined President Reagan’s Caribbean Basin Initiative and intensified the international debt crisis.(37)
— Negotiated to increase restrictiveness of the Multifiber Arrangement and extended restrictions to previously unrestricted textiles. The administration unilaterally changed the rule of origin in order to restrict textile and apparel imports further and imposed a special ceiling on textiles from the People’s Republic of China.(38) Finally, it pressured Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, the largest exporters of textiles and apparel to the United States, into highly restrictive bilateral agreements. All told, textile and apparel restrictions cost Americans more than $20 billion a year.(39) The Reagan administration has stated several times that textile and apparel imports should grow no faster than the domestic market.(40)
— Required 18 countries—including Brazil, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Finland, and Australia, as well as the European Community—to accept “voluntary restraint agreements” to reduce steel imports, guaranteeing domestic producers a share of the American market. When 3 countries not included in the 18—Canada, Sweden, and Taiwan— increased steel exports to the United States, the administration demanded talks to check the increase. The administration also imposed tariffs and quotas on specialty steel. These policies, with their resulting shortages, have severely squeezed American steel-using firms, making them less competitive in world markets and eliminating more than 52,000 jobs.(41)
— Imposed a five-year duty, beginning at 45 percent, on Japanese motorcycles for the benefit of Harley Davidson, which admitted that superior Japanese management was the cause of its problems.(42)
— Raised tariffs on Canadian lumber and cedar shingles.
— Forced the Japanese into an agreement to control the price of computer memory-chip exports and increase Japanese purchases of American-made chips. When the agreement was allegedly broken, the administration imposed a 100 percent tariff on $300 million worth of electronics goods. This episode teaches a classic lesson in how protectionism comes back to haunt a country’s producers. The quotas established as a result of the agreement have created a severe shortage of memory chips and higher prices for American computer makers, putting them at a disadvantage with foreign competitors. Only two American firms are still making these chips, accounting for a small percentage of the world market.(43)
— Removed Third World countries from the duty-free import program for developing nations on several occasions.
— Pressed Japan to force its automakers to buy more American-made parts.(44)
— Demanded that Taiwan, West Germany, Japan, and Switzerland restrain their exports of machine tools, with some market shares rolled back to 1981 levels. Other countries were warned not to increase their shares of the U.S. market.
— Accused the Japanese of dumping roller bearings, because the price did not rise to cover a fall in the value of the yen. The U.S. Customs Service was ordered to collect duties equal to the so-called dumping margins.(45)
— Accused the Japanese of dumping forklift trucks and color picture tubes.(46)
— Failed to ask Congress to end the ban on the export of Alaskan oil and of timber cut from federal lands, a measure that could substantially increase U.S. exports to Japan.
— Redefined “dumping” in order “to make it easier to bring charges of unfair trade practices against certain competitors.”(47)
— Beefed up the Export-Import Bank, an institution dedicated to promoting the exports of a handful of large companies at the expense of everyone else.(48)
— Extended quotas on imported clothespins.
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