Posted on 07/25/2019 3:56:31 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Ever since the 60s, the administrations in DC thought nothing about sending jobs elsewhere just to get an agreement or treaty. NOW we finally have a LEADER that is working to bring jobs back home and get fair trade agreements and he is attacked 24x7 by the Deep State TRAITORS.
Foreign Direct Investment fell $218 billion between 2016 and 2018. China's share of that fell 88% to $5.4 billion. That would mean their direct investment dropped about $4 billion. In what world is that the huge bulk of $218 billion?
Second, reading this piece and knowing its source is decidedly anti Trump brings to mind a phrase, “Figures lie and liars figure”.
Fair enough. How are the figures lying?
wierd. i replaced your “http” with “https”
Why?
Yes. the financial world de-humanizes the population so when they screw them over by say closing a factory in NC and moving it to Mexico and thereby destroying the economic viability of a small town it doesn't affect them emotionally.
How do you “invest” in a country that is self destructing and de-industrializing? What? Buy more imported furniture for the corporate offices?
A good place to start is to rethink all your fallacious positions and places to invest will appear.
BTW....... The markets are rising as a result of a strong economy that has large manufacturing component. America is contray to the view from under your rock, an industrial nation.
When are you going to stop dodging and give an intelligent answer to this simple question?
If anyone were to ask Japanese, S. Korean, Chinese, EU or a Taiwanese economists if high restrictive import tariffs on durable goods and protective tariffs are beneficial to their economy what would they say? Yes or No?
Answer you coward.
If Washington still wants to “do something” about immigration, we propose a five-word constitutional amendment: There shall be open borders.The same WSJ screed, which was primarily about and in support of the Simpson-Mazzoli disaster, called those who advocated stronger border controls “nativist patriots” (the word “nativist” is not new) and falsely compared border controls to “a 2,000-mile Berlin Wall with minefields, dogs and machine-gun towers”.
— WSJ, 07/03/1984
The Communists are further reproached for desiring to abolish countries and nationality
— Manifesto, chapter 2
“FDI into the U.S. from China—the country with which America is on the verge of full-blown trade war—plummeted 87.9% from 2016 to 2018, to $5.4 billion.”
The author misleadingly attributes (or insinuates that) this decline is due to the trade war, when it is really due to the capital controls China slapped on its people, to keep them from taking money out of the country. There was capital flight from China then that threatened to collapse their currency.
That is why the drop is so much greater from China - and also why most of the rest of the world saw a similar crash in Chinese FDI during that time.
Oh the calamity... more jobs than we can fill, record levels for the DJIA, record profits, record low unemployment...
> Why?
because it (”https”) worked (for me) whereas “http” did not
Cutting into real incomes, that rose by 6% last year (non college educated wage growth)....
Globalists will NEVER give up their desire to destroy America
We have free training for employees, once you get hired and prove you are worth a crap.
Aerospace has drug testing, so we let a lot of people who can’t give up smoking dope, go.
Aerospace has tried Japan, Mexico, Singapore, India, Puerto Rico, Europe, South America, China, Turkey because wages were “cheaper” or the government subsidized it, but the USA always comes back better from a true cost/quality standpoint... If we could just find people with some common sense to work in an airconditioned shop for $16/hour with full benefits + overtime (and $70K for graduate engineers).
The only problem with the overpaid MBA overlords are they are faux SJW’s who embrace AA and 50% of managers need to be Women by 2023 (ignoring the fact that less than 5% of my engineering class in the 1980’s was women). Dumb.
“50 years ago min. wage adjusted for inflation in 1969 was $11.14.”
If you are quoting government inflation figures bear in mind that they greatly understate the true inflation rate. Fifty three years ago I bought a new Mustang for three thousand dollars and I overpaid. There were plenty of houses for sale in this area for less than twelve thousand dollars and they were not shacks, they were small brick houses, usually with a masonry fireplace and chimney as well as a central heating system. I don’t think you can build the chimney and fireplace now for twelve thousand.
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