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1/3 of South Carolina’s Manufacturing Jobs Have Disappeared Since NAFTA
breitbart.com ^ | February 19

Posted on 02/20/2016 2:42:33 AM PST by Helicondelta

1/3 of South Carolina's Manufacturing Jobs Have Disappeared Since NAFTA AP Photo/Paul SancyaAP Photo/Paul Sancya by JULIA HAHN 19 Feb 2016 919 At a CNN town hall Thursday, businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump once again put the issue of manufacturing front and center in the 2016 race.

When CNN's Anderson Cooper pressed Trump on whether a U.S. president ought to be sending cease and desist letters and whether he would continue to do so as president, Trump said, "maybe to China" -- pointing out the extraordinary job losses Americans have experienced through trade policies:

No... I would be sending them to China to stop ripping us off. I would be sending them to other countries to stop ripping us off. I'd send them to Mexico. And when I say cease and desist, maybe it's equivalent, OK? Maybe I do it with my mouth.

Federal data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests Trump's argument on ending one-sided trade deals may resonate in South Carolina. According to the federal data, South Carolina lost 1/3 of its manufacturing jobs since U.S. signed NAFTA in 1994.

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To: Gen.Blather

The US consumer sees no benefit in moving production off shore. The fractional decrease in production costs goes to the stockholders and executive. Two reasons for this. Labor is a small part of the cost to manufacture, even when done on the USA, and greed.


41 posted on 02/20/2016 6:17:47 AM PST by central_va
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To: Lisbon1940
Yep. Textiles not the basis of modern economy.

You have to keep the left side of the bell curve working.

42 posted on 02/20/2016 6:19:14 AM PST by central_va
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To: Lisbon1940

Offshoring does not lower prices. Just increases profits. Anyone can see that.


43 posted on 02/20/2016 6:20:26 AM PST by central_va
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To: Lisbon1940

unmentioned was the Greenville-Spartanburg corridor.

BME makes cars there. There are industrial parks that sprang up to serve BMW. They have three flags..... Stars and stripes, South Carolina and some other country they call home. As these facilities and infrastructure developed, other non auto companies came in.

The new jobs are better than the textile work


44 posted on 02/20/2016 6:23:04 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: Gen.Blather
That is the most complete summation of the anti-business regulations and agendas I have seen. Nice work.

Be nice if there was a political party dedicated to rolling back all of the government regulation. Certainly isn't the Republican Party or so called "movement Conservatives" either.

Go Trump, go!

45 posted on 02/20/2016 6:23:17 AM PST by central_va
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To: bert
We want ALL manufacturing done in The USA. All of it.

These Free Traitors™ faux patriots constantly run around shouting about how we need to be self sufficient in oil and drill baby drill. Then these hypocrites want our means of production, the engine of wealth creation, off shored. I hate these people.

46 posted on 02/20/2016 6:27:00 AM PST by central_va
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To: LowOiL
Yup... devaluation of currency is wrong, which of course was the complaint of the BRIC nations when the US devalued the dollar in 2009 to boost exports. The problem with China now is not an undervalued currency but an overvalued currency. The Chinese government has propped up Renminbi because if it free floated it would crash.
47 posted on 02/20/2016 6:34:41 AM PST by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I was speaking g to evidence that trump opposes free trade with more than cheap words.


48 posted on 02/20/2016 6:43:44 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Rashputin
You make some good points, and then you say this:

All that crap you list would have never gotten as bad as it has become if industry didn't have the option to move offshore.

Am I to understand your solution would be to legally bar American industry from manufacturing anywhere else in the world for re-import to the American market? Wouldn't it follow that no imported goods at all should be allowed, by edict, in addition?

Contrary to your premise, one of the few things preventing further punitive regulations and industrial exodus is the fact that corporations now have this right. The decision to move is usually move or die, and the jobs would be reduced, if not lost altogether, anyway, unless imported goods were also banned.

The consumer is always ignored, forgotten completely in these discussions. Walmart has done more good for the country's poor than all the liberal anti-poverty programs combined. Walmart would have to go, with your plan, no?

49 posted on 02/20/2016 6:44:08 AM PST by wayoverontheright (A falling camel attracts many knives.......)
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To: wayoverontheright
Walmart has done more good for the country's poor than all the liberal anti-poverty programs combined. Walmart would have to go, with your plan, no?

Offshoring doesn't lower prices it increases profit margins.

50 posted on 02/20/2016 6:46:39 AM PST by central_va
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To: central_va
Offshoring doesn't lower prices it increases profit margins.

In the absence of competition, yes.

51 posted on 02/20/2016 6:55:28 AM PST by wayoverontheright (A falling camel attracts many knives.......)
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To: Lakeshark; C. Edmund Wright

UPC COA

The Unrealistic Purist Conservative Church of America


52 posted on 02/20/2016 7:11:14 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins; C. Edmund Wright
CEW is a talented guy, thoughtful and smart as well.

He and I disagree from time to time (we agree far more than we disagree, like you and I do xzins), but it's rare that we don't shed light on each other.

Scorched earth goes both ways.

53 posted on 02/20/2016 7:16:02 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: Lakeshark; C. Edmund Wright

CEW has been rude to me for months.

I’ve been a Christian about it.

But I don’t trust him anymore.


54 posted on 02/20/2016 7:18:11 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins; C. Edmund Wright
I find him to be trustworthy, even when he has come on harshly to me in disagreement.

I hope you can come to some kind of truce. Sometimes agreeing to disagree is the best way to go.

You're both fine posters, and apparently very decent and accomplished people. Two of the best FR has to offer.

Just my 2 cents.

55 posted on 02/20/2016 7:28:40 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: wayoverontheright

Someone gets it, I see.


56 posted on 02/20/2016 7:44:34 AM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: xzins

UPC COA

The Unrealistic Purist Conservative Church of America

AKA as the “I Walk on Water” cult.


57 posted on 02/20/2016 7:45:09 AM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: xzins

I”m not running for President. It’s not me you should not trust. It’s someone who’s been far far far far more flaky than I who is that you support.


58 posted on 02/20/2016 7:55:52 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: xzins

dear Lord - that’s UPC.

Go ahead and live in your world of doing deals with Schumer and other profoundly evil agents of the devil while claiming your faith. Go ahead and support the crony shameful thing known as ethanol, which is government theft - and claim your faith. Go ahead and excuse Planned Parenthood and proclaim your faith.

You need to take a long long look in the mirror.

it’s not purity, that’s bullshit false equivalency. You are out of ammo and cornered with your own supposed beliefs due to a personality cult.


59 posted on 02/20/2016 7:58:00 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: wayoverontheright
Very well said. Unfortunately, that's one of those mumbo-jumbo, overly-,technical, lawyer-like, "elitist" explanations intended to trick WE THE PEOPLE!

It's so much simpler to run with the mob and blame it all on free trade.

60 posted on 02/20/2016 8:49:54 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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