"Manufacturing is essential to our standard of living?" That's not what Al Gore says - he thinks everything can be done with information technology. He's a socialist and he ought to know.
"Manufacturing is essential to our standard of living?" That's not what Al Gore says - he thinks everything can be done with information technology. He's a socialist and he ought to know.
"Manufacturing is essential to our standard of living?" That's not what Al Gore says - he thinks everything can be done with information technology. He's a socialist and he ought to know.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/959787/posts Lawmaker predicts defeat for 'Buy American' language (Defense Department procurement update)
"But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade." ~ Karl Marx, On the Question of Free Trade, January 9, 1848
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/01/09ft.htm#marx "Communists and socialists feel sure that setting up international “free” trade systems which impose regulations chuck full of intrigues, redistribution plans, arbitrary law, and interdependence schemes, will win out against the conservative interests of every free nation. What could be better than to use “free” trade to reverse the advantage of the relatively free, moral, prosperous, and strong nations of the Earth, so that the tyrannical, amoral, poor, and weak nations of the socialist bloc might get the upper hand? What could be a more cunning approach than to market the idea that those who oppose “free” trade are enemies of freedom?"
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Manufacturing gave this country the standard of living that we had --- the highest in the world. We're nuts if we give all that up.
Tax the hell out of it...and regulate it to death...suddenly it goes away.
"Free" trade is arguably the biggest misnomer of modern times.
It would help if "Made in America" is generally associated with high quality. I'm not sure this is the case, worldwide.
Part of the blame lies with US cities. The confiscatory level of property taxation first drove many companies out of cities, but there are
NO or nominal property taxes in other countries. All you need do is cross a little ocean, which is not the obstacle it used to be.
Just think, you dream up some idea for a widget you want to manufacture. You look to locate your plant in, say, New Haven, Connecticut. The mil rate there is over 8 mils, that is, for every $1 million you invest in your factory, you have to pay the dunderheaded lazy thieves in city hall $80,000.00 per year. Say your factory costs a modest $5million. You will have to pay the thugs in city hall $400,000.00 per year just for the privelege of locating your plant in the midst of the squalor known as New Haven.
Do you know how hard it is to make an extra $400,000.00? One must stay up pretty late at night to earn such a sum. It doesn't come easy, and in fact, it's simply easier to leave town, or not show up in town in the first place. They wonder where the businesses have all gone. Where the jobs have all gone...
Then you have to worry about the lawyers.
Now, put your factory in sunny Mexico, or Guangdong, and you don't have any of those worries. No little old ladies will slip on your sidewalk, or if they do, no lawyers will come knocking. Oh, and property taxes? Guess again.
Why would anyone in their right mind put a manufacturing plant in an American city? Because they erected nice billboards to "attract business"? Right.
Low costs will attract business. Costs of litigation, a business friendly environment.
I'm really surprised at the nitwits that run our cities. They steal and tax and run violent filthy slums right into the ground, then they spend taxpayers' money on billboards as if someone is going to actually be fooled by such misguided blather... like this one:
Hey suckers! Put your factory here! We can tax you, sue you, inspect you, steal you right out of business!! Step right up...
When a city has to put up a billboard, it's time to get out of town!
Read later.
Whether you agree with these conclusions or not, surely everyone here realizes that a "study" commissioned by the group whose agenda would benefit from certain results that just happen to fit the conclusions is hardly without major methodological problems. It's akin to the environmenatl-whackos having a "study" done showing industry "hurts the environment." What results did you really expect these guys to come up with?
Wait, wait a minute here! I heard Alan Greenscam himself say we don't need no stinkin' manufacturing anymore. Who you gonna believe? This joker or Sir Alan?