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Idea: Tax imports, encourage American production for a change.
(vanity) | 2/18/13 | (vanity)

Posted on 02/18/2013 7:45:43 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network

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To: Revolting cat!

And after about a week of waiting to say this:

OH YEAH!

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101 posted on 02/21/2013 6:41:15 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: plain talk

Please do research and post FACTS concerning union participation rates in manufacturing. Otherwise your FEELINGS about this subject are so much hot air. This s what democrats do, make things up then project them out. Stop it.


102 posted on 02/22/2013 5:35:19 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: plain talk; 1rudeboy; Mase
Since you Free Traders are SOOOOOOOOO < expletive deleted > lazy I did the research for all of you brainwashed simpletons:

Here are the stats BACKED UP with proper references.

The figure is 10%, so we are off shoring our national security to fight the 10% throwing away the 90%. God help us and save us from the Free Traitors.

Table 3. Union affiliation of employed wage and salary workers by occupation and industry, 2011-2012 annual averages

Summary Manufacturing: 2012( in thousands ):

Total       Member     Percent:  Represented   Percent:
employed:   of a                 By a Union:
            Union: 


13,941 	     1,338 	9.6 	 1,468 	       10.5

The intellectual laziness of the Free Traders makes one wonder if you guys have formed some kind of union. LOL.

Please forward to Rush Limbaugh.

103 posted on 02/22/2013 5:55:04 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

2012 figures are meaningless because much of manufacturing has already been outsourced to China which is your whole point, right. :-) You would have to go back many decades because this process has been going on for along time. Good grief. You are lost.


104 posted on 02/22/2013 6:26:52 AM PST by plain talk
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To: plain talk
2012 figures are meaningless because much of manufacturing has already been outsourced to China which is your whole point, right. :-) You would have to go back many decades because this process has been going on for along time. Good grief. You are lost.

OMG I just showed you that only 10% of the manufacturing is unionized and you still don't get it. So, why are we off shoring NOW? Is it to fight unionism? No, because that battle is over. So stop with the straw man. Free Trade is a religion and you have been duped.

105 posted on 02/22/2013 6:47:55 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Speaking of “lazy,” care to take a stab at my comment #78? It’s directly on-point. Then, we can talk about Twinkies (for example).


106 posted on 02/22/2013 7:04:57 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: plain talk

Time to bring back US manufacturing.

Bring it back. A bit at a time, but reverse the years of outsourcing, and bring back the magical manufacturing which made America great.

Now.

And change laws to encourage exports, and discourage imports.

For crying out loud. Go in any store, and look at where everything is made: China.


107 posted on 02/22/2013 7:13:06 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: plain talk

Union costs are not a factor when a manufacturer
decides to build, expand, or relocate.
Union labor represents an insignificant percentage of the labor force.

108 posted on 02/22/2013 7:13:06 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
Explain why manufacturers prefer to build their plants in Right-to-Work States.

I wish that were true, I see no indication that factories are moving there. Can you research this? Can you find out what new factories are moving to the R-T-W states? All evidence I see indicates Asia is the preferred destination.

109 posted on 02/22/2013 7:27:13 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Groan.

Do you have any recollection at all of what happened when Boeing tried to build in South Carolina? Your vaunted but insignificant unions filed a labor complaint with the NLRB.

110 posted on 02/22/2013 7:37:35 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

ONE example? You are ridiculous, do research you lazy fart ass.


111 posted on 02/22/2013 7:43:00 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
How about these?

Tennessee: Volkswagen, Nissan, GM
Alabama: Mercedes Benz, Honda, Hyundai
Texas: Peterbuilt, GM, Toyota

I deliberately chose States of the Old Confederacy, so you can find them on a map. And mostly foreign makers to piss you off.
112 posted on 02/22/2013 7:50:13 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Ok how many factories have been shipped overseas in the last 20 years? , I say hundreds if not thousands. Stop concentrating on autos. Think bigger, you can do it.


113 posted on 02/22/2013 7:52:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Do research you lazy fart ass.


114 posted on 02/22/2013 7:54:30 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: central_va

I would say tens of thousands. If not hundreds of thousands.

China has requirements that foreign ownership of their factories is less than 50%. So even our own factories over there are co-owned.

China also has requirements that goods sold in China, are made in China.

We are on the wrong side in this issue.

Seriously.


115 posted on 02/22/2013 8:00:14 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Tax welfare, food stamps, free phones, housing assistance, utility assistance,free daycare, long term unemployment benefits, etc! Get Americans working again and 11 million illegals will have to go home.


116 posted on 02/22/2013 8:01:10 AM PST by csmusaret (I will give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.)
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To: csmusaret
The protectionists on this thread would rather tax you, instead. Got money?
117 posted on 02/22/2013 8:23:29 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: central_va

You post irrelevant stats and then don’t even comprehend how they are irrelevant when it is explained to you. stuck on stupid is no way to go through life, son.


118 posted on 02/22/2013 8:43:03 AM PST by plain talk
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To: plain talk

You are an idiot. No question about it. I have proven that only 10% of that manufacturing labor force is unionized yet that means nothing to you. So you are in favor of shipping non union jobs to communist countries. Aren’t you a hero. FOAD. Judas Iscariot had nothing on you.


119 posted on 02/22/2013 9:47:07 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

And you have been shown that unions affect management decisions. Just because you choose to ignore it . . . .


120 posted on 02/22/2013 9:57:30 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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