Posted by JD Seller on May 29, 2016 at 09:39:10 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: Got me to thinking? posted by Geo-TH,In on May 29, 2016 at 08:15:42:
All the things pushing companies out of the US would fill the net for days. Your money is a very, very small part of the issue. The bigger issue and cause is the total production cost here in the US has skyrocketed. Included in this cost are many things: wages, benefit cost, EPA rules, OHSA, General government interference are just some of the main ones.
All of them make producing things here more costly. That coupled with few penalties for out side manufacturing have lead to this happening.
A old friend has a shop supply business. He bought a small company that made grease fittings. The total labor cost slowly drove the cost of the fittings to double what he could buy them for. So he closed the business and sold the equipment. The equipment went to Columbia. They now ship fittings back to him for less than 50% of what it cost him the last year he manufactured them here.
I am all for more closed borders. Tariffs where and are a good thing in my opinion. All countries need to protect their people/business from outside forces. This also includes farm products. A country that allows cheap US grown corn to wipe out its domestic production is putting itself at the mercy of the US. That is not good long term. Free trade should have limits in both directions. This one world market only works if there is one world standard of living. I am not ready to live in a dirt floored house and raise house fulls of kids in poverty.
I am not sure we could win WWII if it happened today. We do not have the manufacturing power we did then. Too many of the basic manufactured products are no longer made here in the US. So it would not be switching car plants into Bomber factories. It would building them from the ground up and then finding the man power to work in them. I just do not think we could do it. There are too many skills that are GONE. Plus the rules and regulations would make building anything take many times longer than it did then.
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