Posted by JDseller on November 30, 2011 at 07:09:02 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: Challenge, Buy Local posted by showcrop on November 30, 2011 at 05:49:04:
Another thing we need to consider is who actually owns many of the factories in China. Many of them are owned by the Chinese military. They use the profits to fund their ARMY. So when you are buying those products you are helping finance our enemy.
If you think China would not attack us in a minute if they could get away with it, you are crazy. They are attacking us everyday with these China made products destroying our economy. They have thousand of military computer hackers trying to get into our computers everyday.
I spent almost ten years in Asia. You have to realize that most Asians are very racist. They are not going to buy much from us unless there is no other choice.
This trade agreement with Korea that the politicians say will increase trade by us selling American built cars into Korea. That is a laugh. I bet that they will not get maybe 1% of the sales that will be the other way.
Non of these "free trade" agreements are good for the USA. A few get to sell a little bit and the rest of us get to lose a few more jobs.
NAFTA is a good example of this. Old Ross Perot said we would hear a big sucking sound of jobs going south but the rest said no way. Well how has that worked out for the USA???? Well many companies laid off American workers and closed plants. Then built new ones in Mexico. Many of these American jobs where non-union too. A good friend has worked at four different jobs in the last ten years. Three of them have ended when the company moved to Mexico.
Good old John Deere is on this band wagon too. They just closed the Welland plant in Canada. The products they built there are now built in Mexico. Mainly Loaders and rotary cutters. Look at the serial number on the loaders. If it starts with a "P" it is made in Mexico.
The Mexican Trucking companies are just the next attack on American jobs. SO we now can sell some pork back into Mexico. At the cost of thousands of American truck driving jobs. It may take them awhile but it will happen. So that 1-2 cents per pound that pork will bring more is going to drive a bunch of drivers/truckers of the road in the US.
Asked any worker at any of the meat plants in the US if they like their third world wages??? These jobs used to be well paying US level wages. IS the price of meat lower in the store??? HECK NO The big packers just pocketed more profit and drove the packers with US workers out of business.
I can't work for third world wages and have a US standard of living. What I pay in health insurance is more than most of the world's workers make in a month. I used to be able to afford a new car/truck. My wages have not keep up so I can't afford them now. So who is going to be the buyer in the future???? My kids can't afford new car either. I was buying new by the time I was in my thirties. 72 month financing is just a bandaid on this problem.
This world economy only works IF everyone's standard of living is close to the same. SO since ours is one of the higher ones we just get to lose that standard so the third world countries can climb up.
I hope you have your new grass hut all picked out because that is what is coming if we let them continue to destroy the US economy. Low wage workers don't buy much other than the basics. Those basics will not drive the economy.
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