C'mon, we lose jobs and the standard of living goes up?
Posted on 07/28/2016 5:37:52 AM PDT by expat_panama
At many universities, engineering and robotics are very sexy majors, with staring salaries in the high five figures.
Most of the Cheap Labor Express hawks hate tariffs and love the income tax. Go figure.
From CNN: Here is a list of companies we’ve confirmed are “Exporting America.” These are U.S. companies either sending American jobs overseas, or choosing to employ cheap overseas labor, instead of American workers.
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/popups/exporting.america/frameset.exclude.html
I know for a fact that this list falls short, as there are four companies I can think of here in my town that have moved to Mexico, and are not on this list.
I’m sure the standard of living for the laid of Carrier workers in Indiana is so high now with all the free time on their hands.
I don't see where it relates to American manufacturing but it does bring up a related question. I understand that one PAC that supports Trump is running ads attacking Hillary for saying to an Indian business audience that offshoring is an established fact and that there isn't anything the U.S. can do to stop it. How would President Trump prove Hillary wrong and stop offshoring of jobs?
Couch-surfing, Xbox, and growing man-buns, as far as I can see.
And I’ve recently seen about millenials working their “side-hustle”. . .whatever that is. . .
Reduce the H-1B visa quota to zero.
Most vehicles sold in the US areASSEMBLED in the US
That's bringing people from overseas to the U.S. to take American jobs. But millions of jobs in customer support, accounting, IT, medicine, banking, and the law have been outsourced to overseas vendors and are no longer being done in the U.S. by anyone, H-1B or other. Ending H-1Bs won't end that. What will Trump do that will?
And jobs in mfg?
What we know for sure here is that you're posting stuff you don't know anything about. Meanwhile U.S. factory out put soars while the lefts wimps and cries.
It sure seems that way, and at the same time there's a lot of info being passed around here --more than I've seen elsewhere. My take is that we only seem to hear from morons because the morons are so much louder. That leaves a lot of other folks that know what's going on and don't feel the need to whine so much.
IMHO, the Dems want to destroy as many good paying jobs as the can, union or not. Why? Simply because they benefit when people are dependent on Government. They figure they will always be able to print enough $$ to fund the Entitlement Sate.
I worked for a natural gas company. When I started a fifth of the company's demand came from a HUGE industrial base with a fairly large baseload. As the decades passed the demand from that sector decreased to a small fraction of total demand. Some companies moved out of Chicago due to taxes, unions and other costs due government regulations others died like Stewart Warner. Google that company. There were many companies like that in Chicago. Now if not extinct, definitely endangered. Why? Because of Unions, taxes and regulations.
BTW, why the term “Rust Belt”? Is that a figment of Freepers’ imaginations?
A trade imbalance doesn't mean all of that money evaporated. We sent cash and got $1T worth of goods in return.
Visit the Toyota plant in Georgetown, KY or the BMW plant in Greer, SC. They are ringed with parts manufacturers that supply most of what is assembled in those plants. Every car sold in the US has a domestic content sticker.
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The jobs you are service jobs and not manufacturing. Those services with be subject to a import tax like on durable goods. Same concept.
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