Define Foreign cars please? Not to long ago I looked out on our drive way and saw 4 cars (me the wife & two kids) I saw a Dodge Grand Caravan, a Ford F-150, a Ford Fusion and a Honda Accord. Only two were made by "American" companies, okay 2 1/2 'cause the Honda was made by "American Honda", only one was "made" in the USA (The Honda) our Dodge was made by Daimler Chrysler (a German firm) in Canada, the F-150 was made by Ford in Canada and the Fusion was made in Mexico.
A lot of comments have been made about the government reducing our wages and employment and the causes for or it. Foreign competition was blamed. Years ago when I was a young man going to college I was required to take an economics class as a degree requirement. In basic economics it was explained the relationship between supply demand and price if we have a SUPPLY of something that overruns the DEMAND for that product the prices paid for that product will fall, kind of like corn this year, a lot of supply has reduced the price. Has anyone considered that the steady stream of low skills workers pouring across our southern border for the last 30 years may of created an over supply of low skills labor and depressed the prices?
We had massive immigration in the late 1800's and early 1900's but it was controlled, some folks were turned away and ended up in places like Canada (my great grandfather) or Cuba (a friend's family). At that time we had a massive and growing manufacturing economy that needed thousands/millions of entry level unskilled labor and the government managed to control the flow of immigrants to prevent and over supply of labor and a reduction of wages and the standard of living. Foreign competition is only one of the factors leading to the decline in real wages for America's working poor. The lower demand for durable goods (cars, trucks, appliances, farm equipment and such) has cost us a lot of fair paying manufacturing jobs, yes government taxes and regulation has lost some but so has onerous Union work rules and artificially high wages.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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