“You sure made youself look foolish in thinking you were making some brilliant correction. Lol.”
No, you did! Government regulations didn’t put your “sewing factory” out of business, foreign competition did. But the textile mills did have “government help” (along with foreign competition) to put them out of business. Same for shoe factories, and a lot of other industries that posed “environmental issues.” Go drive around New England and look at all the old mills that are empty.
Which is precisely what I said. You're wasting your time and mine. This conversation started concerning Trump's clothing line, not his fabrics. It was all about clothing and sewing plants. Textile mills, or fabric producers, actually out lasted the sewing factories because those operations were much more automated.
But they were all put out of business primarily by cheap foreign labor, quarters per hour labor. OSHA regs might or might not have added costs at some critical time, but the savings in labor were incredible going from the $10.00 per hour range to a quarters per hour, in sewing plants that usually had employees in the hundreds. And there are more savings on supplies and other inputs into the relocated factories due to cheap labor.
We can put dollars on the reduction in labor costs, but no one ever gives a number for how much all those environmental regulations supposedly cost, and how those costs shut plants down. Some just love to blame it on government regulations rather than an escape to find the world's cheapest labor.