[Willie Green]

Furniture workers hope petition will help save their jobs from imports

[Willie Green]

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[RaceBannon]

"We've got to grin and bear this day out,' Simmons said. "But we know things are going to get worse from here on out until our government wakes up to the realities of what imports are doing to the people it's supposed to be protecting."

Seems to be going around these days. I am going to school to drive a bus next week, school bus part time. It's a paycheck.

[Bob J]

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[jimkress]

They make Hookers in a FACTORY? I thought they were born from human parents. The ones seen in the red light districts on TV shows look human to me.

[Oorang]

So what will America be like when almost everything is imported? This is a long term problem and will take a long term solution. Something has to be done to stop the tide from going out, out, out.

Here in the Pacific NW the fruit farmers are suffering terribly due to the massive influx of South America fruit. I went to the "big city" today to do some shopping. In the shoe store I asked the guy helping me "are these shoes made in America"? He looked at me like I was speaking Greek. I asked again, where were the shoes made. He finally checked and said "Brazil". I said no thanks. I always ask, they always give me a funny look. We own a small manufacturing company, employs about 60 people. Believe me, made in USA in a big deal in our household.

If it's any consolation Willie Green, about 3 years ago we spent approx. 30K on new furniture, all made in North Carolina. Had to wait about 3 months for delivery but it was worth it.

[supercat]

It's maddening how little people realize of how much taxation kills domestic production.

Suppose someone wants to be able to put $1 in the pocket of a waitress. For a person to get enough money to have the waitress net $1, the person's employer has to spend more than $2. Of course, even after the waitress has the $1 in her pocket, much of it will still end up being grabbed by the government before ending up in someone else's pocket.

Taxes are strangling our economy. No two ways about it.

[Capriole]

When are we going to wake up and realize that we can't export every job and import every item? If people don't have jobs in this country, where will they get the money to buy those imported goods? The short-sightedness is staggering. We are creating our own depression.

[freddies dead]

America;the new source of third world wage workers

[Indrid Cold]

"Nearly 3,000 people have lost their jobs in North Carolina this year as furniture manufacturers close plants and slash work forces, according to the state Employment Security Commission."

I wonder how many of them shopped at Wal-Mart. Probably all of them.

[Ramius]

I would agree that it's a bad thing that U.S. companies can't seem to compete with imports. Beyond all the bellyaching, though, I haven't seen anything from the populist side of the house for what y'all would propose to do about this?

Ban imports?

Ban U.S. companies from establishing facilities anywhere else in the world?

Am I getting this right? The answer to the problem of more companies being chased out of the country is even more regulation?

[dirtydanusa]

A friend of mine is constantly going to China because his job is moving there and they are paying him to train the Chinese. He says the factory construction in Shanghi is incredible, mostly American name companies cashing in on cheap labor, no healthcare or retirement. He says his company pays the chinese $0.20 an hour, 96 hrs a week straight pay. He told me that a Walmart factory is in the process of moving one of it's factories out of Shanghi and into a small rural town where they will house and feed the people in instead of paying them.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"The plant was built in the late 1800s."

It survived several previous recessions and cycles, but not this one. This one is different.