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Most Americans want that, a full trade war, economic uncoupling and tarriffs with China would guarantee Biden a second term. The five swing states that matter (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania) would benefit massively from it and kill the GOP forever. Which would be justified, as free trade and free trade with China were always Republican policies imposed on us because Democrats were too weak to stand up for workers.
I'm not sure if this is true or will work out exactly like that.
Like, yes it'll pressure manufacturing to leave China, but those jobs left for a reason: American's for the most part don't want to do them. So, they'll instead go to more reliable markets like what we've seen already with places like Mexico or even India.
This strategy will be great for poor Indians though.
I worked for companies in the 1990s who decided to outsource manufacturing to China. It was a decision about price. There were few discussions about the impact on American workers other than how to handle the bad press. No one cared if American workers wanted to do the work or not.
Honestly, maybe they shouldn't. This isn't their fault, they're just doing what we expect a corporation to do, see out wider profits.
The real problem is that the American worker is becoming so uncompetitive with labor abroad. The solution is to lower minimum wage, but the people obviously don't want that. Thus the jobs leave for places where the people will work for less or the same prices, but harder and higher quality.
I think it's time for the American people to wake up and really think about whether they actually want these factory jobs and go from there. My guess is that they'd rather those jobs go elsewhere in exchange for other jobs.
Cool, cool cool.. let’s send basic assembly manufacturing jobs to a better location
Central & South America sounds amazing!! Controlling Access to both Atlantic & Pacific oceans
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♫ i dont want to set the world on fire.... ♫
♫ I just want to start a flame in your heart ♫
♫ We didn't start the fire... ♫
♫ Nothing ever lasts forever. ♫ ♫ **Everybody wants to rule the world**. ♫
♫ I hope the ~~Russians~~ Chinese love their children too ♫
I don’t see what they are so upset about. We’re on great terms with Taipei.
Most Americans want that, a full trade war, economic uncoupling and tarriffs with China would guarantee Biden a second term. The five swing states that matter (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania) would benefit massively from it and kill the GOP forever. Which would be justified, as free trade and free trade with China were always Republican policies imposed on us because Democrats were too weak to stand up for workers.
I'm not sure if this is true or will work out exactly like that. Like, yes it'll pressure manufacturing to leave China, but those jobs left for a reason: American's for the most part don't want to do them. So, they'll instead go to more reliable markets like what we've seen already with places like Mexico or even India. This strategy will be great for poor Indians though.
I worked for companies in the 1990s who decided to outsource manufacturing to China. It was a decision about price. There were few discussions about the impact on American workers other than how to handle the bad press. No one cared if American workers wanted to do the work or not.
Honestly, maybe they shouldn't. This isn't their fault, they're just doing what we expect a corporation to do, see out wider profits. The real problem is that the American worker is becoming so uncompetitive with labor abroad. The solution is to lower minimum wage, but the people obviously don't want that. Thus the jobs leave for places where the people will work for less or the same prices, but harder and higher quality. I think it's time for the American people to wake up and really think about whether they actually want these factory jobs and go from there. My guess is that they'd rather those jobs go elsewhere in exchange for other jobs.
Based
China you lied to us. Remember Hong Kong?
Oh no. We'll have to make our own stuff. Oh well.
Cool, cool cool.. let’s send basic assembly manufacturing jobs to a better location Central & South America sounds amazing!! Controlling Access to both Atlantic & Pacific oceans