Posted on 02/21/2020 7:30:30 PM PST by NobleFree
I think it is time for these kids to start going to trade schools, welders, electricians, appliance repair, ALL fields that have SO MUCH work they are hard to find!! Another field is installing new windows!! These kids need to learn a trade and start their own business!! These damn college degrees are worthless today and the debt involved is ridiculous!!!!
It time to stop meddling in the US labor market by importing LEGAL and ILLEGAL aliens.
I blame a lot of this on you.
If you could come up with even a slightly more creative insult I'm sure the American people would realize the error of their ways and be willing to pay more for Made In The U.S.A.
For the first time in history.
With very few exceptions the cost of labor is NOT a huge part of the cost of manufacturing. The cost at retail of durable goods would go up maybe 5 cents on the dollar if made in the USA. The biggest exception is textiles and apparel. But even there the costs are only around 10% more. Quality would surely go up if made in the USA.
Absolutely agree we have plenty of labor right here in the US the tech companies just don’t WANT to pay for US labor!!! To damn bad look at what the hell they are going through in China right now wonder how much this crisis over there is costing them!! Aside from the fact of their tech secrets being stolen has to be VERY costly!! These damn businesses need to return home!!!
OK. So then what's been the driver of offshoring?
No sane business would go through the expense and hassle for 5%. Do you think every manufacturer is conspiring to take jobs away from Americans?
What's your theory as to why they would do that?
Greed. The 2-3% "savings" by offshoring was enough to "drive" production off shore. Our esteemed "Captains of Industry" would kill their own children to shave off 1/2% on production costs. We are talking pennies on the dollar but when you multiply by millions of units it adds up.
Basically American makers kept design, engineering, marketing and retailing and have given production over to a hostile foreign entity bypassing US labor to save a few pennies on the dollar and all the "trouble" and "hassle" of production.. Sucks really bad. Bad mojo.
Absolutely they are. Without a doubt.
No conspiracy - equivalent interests and values ($ > America) lead to equivalent actions.
I don't know the percentages of skilled vs. unskilled workers are. Or, for that matter, what constitutes a skilled worker. There are plenty of people who use technology and are not anymore skilled than a trained monkey.
Regardless, more immigrants will at most just add to the trained monkey class of workers, but I suspect it would lead to more unskilled and unemployed immigrants dragging down average wages.
So then a good patriotic producer should be able to thrive by making goods here and charging 2%-3% more than the competition.
Surely there are enough good red blooded patriots willing to spend that little bit more to buy American.
Or are you the only person left virtuous enough to come up with this idea?
Why do American owned companies want to take jobs away from Americans?
And the $ > America is determined by the consumer, not the manufacturer.
LMAO!
There’s an upper limit to wages, as there’s a lower limit. For the same reasons.
Would love to see some of local young overweight slobs working in those fields though.
BS. There is an upper limit if fascist America floods us with immigrants. If you paid $20.00/hr to pick lettuce there would be plenty of Americans showing up. And that head of lettuce would only cost $.25/head in the grocery store.
Wow, for the third time to shave off 2-3% on production cost. Get it yet? or do I have to repeat myself.
No patriotism needed or expected from traitors so.... you FORCE all producers to compete for workers from the same domestic labor supply. How do you do that? You do that with a uniform across the board import tariff of say, 20% to start. Then the USA needs to stop all LEGAL immigration to restrict the labor supply. Then wages will truly come up to first world levels. Birthrates will also come up as life becomes less miserable.
The other choice is socialism.
Or so you claim.
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