Posted on 06/16/2021 12:00:54 PM PDT by Rebelbase
You are right on every point. And you used to be able to go to North Carolina for quality furniture. Everything gone to China. All of it is crap now.
Who's they?
It isn't free traders or protectionists who drove this, it was everyday Americans.
People here want to find someone to blame but neglect to look in the mirror. Manufacturing has moved offshore because Americans prefer to pay lower prices.
Don't blame politics when economics has the better explanation.
That’s a really nice knife, too. Bought one for myself, one for a SIL. Sturdy. Well-made. Useful.
It seems that into Trump’s third year, I was seeing more and more from our hemisphere and other places.
Same, here.
I sure miss those good old days 😩
Case in point ....Schrade Sharpfinger.
I have one of each place of origin.
The one stamped made in usa is still the better knife!!
And the scabbard is better quality.
Democrats love to heavily regulate, tax, and limit manufacturing in this country. But they will warmly welcome everything that the Chinese want to dump in our markets, for a kickback.
Not necessarily lower price but it has to be affordable, not the same thing.
BS.
Its the governments job to protect the people with the correct policies and incentives.
Trump was fixing this problem with Tariffs which was why he had to go.
Most people would prefer a decent job vs cheap goods with a low paying service job.
China is now more dangerous than the Soviet Union ever was.
LOL. No it is not at all. Building cars is very labor intensive and the labor using US UNION workers is 8% per vehicle. Stop the BS.
We need tariffs and we need them badly.
I hate you. Fu—ing traitors...
Once the USA has been de industrialized it’s game over. What good is a military without a vibrant industrial base to back it up?
You are an idiot. Let's say both workers make 100 widget per hour. Widgets cost $25 each retail.
Per widget the US worker costs .25 the 3rd worlder .06 per widget. SHOULD WE SELL OUT OUR ENTIRE INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR 19 cents per $25 retail? REALLY???? F no...
If we are going to have tariffs we need to do it quickly, because once the industrial base is gone it can be gone for decades.
As you could tell from my earlier posts, I think focusing on China misses the bigger picture, which is that world corporations will follow wage arbitrage and tax/regulatory arbitrage to the lowest possible level, wherever that is (and that includes robots and offshore non-nation islands of the future).
Tariffs would need to part of an overall tax/regulation policy that motivated those corporations to stay here or move here. By themselves they will be just be putting a band aid on a mortal wound.
I hate immigration because most, not all, immigrants are never really died in the wool patriots. Most suck. Just being honest.
Yes across the bout tariffs!!! Then lower income taxes accordingly. The watch the economy grow and grow!!
“China is now more dangerous than the Soviet Union ever was.”
Indeed. The only way the USSR could keep a reasonable parity with the west was by stealing technology. That ended when one of their own betrayed the spy ring and methods. Shutting it down was one of the biggest factors in the downfall of the USSR.
The opposite is true with China. We have welcomed their agents to infiltrate our political, manufacturing-and-technology base to the point they are sleeping with Senators and Congressman and stealing everything in sight.
I was born in Washington State. I can trace my ancestry to John and Priscilla Alden. In fact, my grandmother’s maiden name was Alden.
My name here comes from enjoying cigars. My original name here was Robroy.
It was sort of a rhetorical question. No, I’m not an idiot for simply asking. Asking the question is a form of starting a conversation, not looking for indults.
And you did sort of engage in a conversation a little in your post. but I have to ask, if you can make widgets for $10 each in the US and $1 each in another country, and both are going to be sold for the same price retail, and shipping costs are $1 per widget from the other country, where are you going to manufacture them, all other things being equal?
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