What about all those Americans who lost their jobs because the US companies decided it would be cheaper to off-shore?
Why did Henry Ford pay his assembly workers so well?
He said he did it because he knew they’d buy Ford autos.
It was this attitude a cyclical, ever-growing economy that got the United States the largest, most prosperous middle class in history.
Now who has the largest middle class? Red China.
So, while our elites make their fortunes, we further burden out middle class with ever increasing taxes to support welfare for those who can’t find work. We further teach laziness and a “gimedat” culture.
What did the liberals say? Oh, yes, “Learn to code.”
Henry Ford attitude beats the liberals’ every time.
Trump’s tariffs to get a balance back into our trade is because he loves America and Americans more than $$$.
RE: What about all those Americans who lost their jobs because the US companies decided it would be cheaper to off-shore?
I’m not sure if I get this reasoning. If our purpose is to always help workers keep the jobs that they currently have, then it can be argued that all new technology should not progress because doing so will necessarily make old skills obsolete.
Think of all the switchboard operators, stagecoach drivers, slide rule, calculator makers and even Fortran programmers who have lost their jobs because new technology replaced them all.
The argument that making things in China will cause jobs to be lost here in the USA applies as well to jobs that will be lost in New York because factories have moved to say, Georgia or Tennessee. Is New York going to put a tax on products made in Georgia or Tennessee?
Also, it has been said that even if China were to increase her tariffs against US goods and even if tariffs were put on Chinese goods, American businesses can MOVE THEIR FACTORIES to other countries like Vietnam, Thailand, India or the Philippines.
Well if they did this, how is this going to restore jobs lost in the USA unless we demand that these countries pay the same benefits and wages that we pay our workers?
I’d like on of these Free Traitors™ explain how decreasing demand for foreign made tariffed product affects one US worker negatively?
He said he did it because he knew they’d buy Ford autos.
A myth that Ford was happy to promote when he realized the good publicity, The truth was that the Ford line was a horrific grind, and employees were quitting after a few months to go to competitors, taking their training with them. In 1913, for example, Ford had to hire 52,000 workers to keep 14,000 positions filled. There were also a lot of requirements to get that wage. The Ford "Sociology Department" would visit the homes of workers to make sure they were upstanding people, didn't drink or gamble, and didn't have wives who worked outside the home. Otherwise it was back to $2.25 for you.
By the 1930s, the Sociology Department had evolved into a police force where workers were punished for just talking to each other, and men would be fired if they drove a non-Ford auto to work. There was something called "Fordization of the face," where workers learned to talk without moving their lips.