Posted by JD Seller on December 20, 2015 at 07:04:56 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: Re: COOL SCRAPPED posted by Bruce from Can. on December 20, 2015 at 04:02:33:
Bruce I would have zero problem with anything imported from Canada BUT I have a hard time with anything imported from third world countries like Mexico. Your smoking something if you think Mexico has the same quality of cleanliness as the US and Canada. Personally meat that had flies all over it is not what I want to eat. Read some of the recent articles on how Thailand is the largest exporter of pealed shrimp and the human SLAVES that do a lot of the pealing.
I am all for locking down the boarders, totally. In the long term the average person in the US would be better off. When we had strong tariffs protecting the internal businesses the average person had a much better wage in relation to the rich. Trade deals like NAFTA hurt the US and Canada workers. I would bet that there are few things made in Canadian factories anymore. The one I personally know is the JD Welland plant. All the products that where made there are made in Mexico now. You want a JD loader for your JD tractor, it is made in Mexico. Also the tillage equipment made in Ames got much of the heavy production moved to Mexico. If you buy a JD tillage tool now you had better look hard at the frames. On just about 100% of them I can find BAD welds and bad paint.
Myself I wanted COOL on everything!!!!! This is really true on major brands of equipment. I know where most of the JD stuff is made. I know that a 5000M series tractor is made in Georgia and a 5000E is made in Mexico or India but some of the 6000 series M,R,S series I can,t tell you where they are made. On the Agco and CNH stuff I have little clue where it all is made.
We are at WAR with China!!!! It is just not a shooting war it is a war on our economy. Think of how many products that are not made in the US anymore period!!!!! It can be the smallest little thing. An example is a toggle switch. I need some that are rated for 20 amps and moisture proof. Every single one I could find was made in Asia with most from China. In the application I am using them in they last less than six months. I tried ordering them from US companies too like Grainger and they all where not US made.
To me all the international "free trade" agreements just lower the US wage/standard of living, to the level of the third world nations that have the cheaper wages and lower standards of living. The only people that benefit are the mega rich and the multinational corporations. I know it would wreck the current economy but in the long run I think the average Joe would be better off with more closed borders. There are 300 plus million people in the US. Make a widget that everyone of them use and need and you can make enough money.
I also can do without grapes in January too and other stuff out of season. We did that for centuries. It is just now that we seem to want fresh produce 365 days each year. To do this you have imports from places that are really different from this country. How many get sick form contaminated food each year??? It seems like most of the major outbreaks are form imported food stuffs.
I know farm products are sold around the world but at what price???? Other than grains most other products are used internally in the US. With most of the production used domestically. When like 25% of the beef is exported why does the export price set the domestic price???? It is because we have let the meat industry be consolidated to 3-4 companies and they know the export price is cheaper than the domestic price would be. I would gladly plant less corn and soybeans. Then maybe plant crops that are better in rotations like we did before we where told we needed to "Feed the World". I say the heck with the WORLD!!!!!! Let them raise their own food. We all would be better off.
It might help regulate the crazies too. The main exporters of terrorism import the majority of their food. Let them raise all their own food and maybe the nut jobs would have to WORK at home rather than have time to do crazy stuff. I know all the dairy farmers I know work long and hard. I would bet that their kids would have little time to go do crazy stuff.
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