Posted on 04/17/2022 9:04:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We spent 30 years sending jobs and factories to China, in the name of cost savings to service more debt and increased financialization of everything
We will now spend the next 30 years reversing it.
LOL
Dumb ass Free Traitors act as if it’s China’s fault nobody makes anything anymore.
They just make the containers nobody else will lol
LOL
Dumb ass Free Traitors act as if it’s China’s fault nobody makes anything anymore.
They just make the containers nobody else will lol
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As if they are that hard to make. LOL
What about the hundreds even thousands sitting in storage yards all across America?
How hard is it to make a metal box?
Containers are a simple product to build anywhere compared to something like an assembly line for microchips. A large building, common welders, and steel are available everywhere. What does not exist in the UsA is the political will.
In my opinion, Americans were seduced by the idea of cheap prices, at the expense of their capabilities. They have to get their heads around being willing to pay American prices for American made products.
So, lots of used containers? I think I'm seeing a solution here.
You’ve got a lot more faith in our leaders than I do.
You nailed it until you started talking about us reversing
the process.
Our leaders, “What problem? I’s gots mine!”
Time for America to become a manufacturing super power once again
What doesn’t China make for the entire world. China is smart and the rest of the world deserves what it gets. Unfortunately, the average joes will be hurt the worse.
[Firstly]The low cost of raw materials in China was listed as the top reason.
Secondly, the demand for Chinese exports remains strong. China has been the largest exporter of goods since 2009, and it uses a massive amount of containers that it produces.
Thirdly, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic has benefited China’s container industry.
Oddly missing is perhaps the paramount reason China leads in production of shipping containers and other products requiring large factories and basic skills like simple welding of seams--forced labor.
This article makes no mention whatsoever of the many international sources complaining of China's use of Uighurs as forced laborers--even slave laborers.
With super-cheap forced labor, or large groups of cost-free slave labor, no other producer of shipping containers can think of competing with this totalitarian capital force.
Stop buying Chinese crap and the situation goes away. Let China keep those steel boxes.
Add this to the choke-hold they have on our medicine, electronics, textiles of all kinds… With the help of money-grubbing politicians and scum-sucking corporations with not an ounce of patriotism for the USA.
I haven’t seen any real changes to that yet, have any of you?
CIMC owns a US trailer manufacturer called Vanguard
I’ve noticed something odd at my local Walmart. A good sized section of the parking lot that is almost never used has been fenced in with obscured fencing and has been filled with shipping containers. It’s Walmart stuff (according to labels) I can see through some of the places in the fence that aren’t obscured.
Has anyone else here noticed anything like that?
Yeah, I can’t get too worked up about this. If they announce Monday they aren’t making any more, by the following Monday somebody else (including us) would be.
There’s more strategic stuff to be worried about then being the source for.
And I’m a protectionist manufacturing guy.
Time for American manufacturers to step in ans step up domestic production of containers and other vital shipping/transportation equipment.
Create Jobs for Americans!
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