America has exported our Manufacturing base.
This is damaging, because it means we send so many jobs to other countries, and American are now unemployed.
We need jobs. Lots of jobs. Good jobs.
Bring back American jobs.
bttt
I have not set foot in a Walmart in 4 1/2 years.
I try to buy American whenever I can. I was at WalMart yesterday buying a hand scrub brush and a pail. The offerings near the bushes were molded plastic pails with plastic handles. $2 or less. CHINA
The other pail I remember seeing was Rubber Maid over in Auto section. It was just under $8 with a metal handle with plastic handgrab.
I bought the Rubber Maid. I was hoping until just now that it was American made. BUT! I now read the label and see it says “assembled in America, made with Chinese, Italian and American parts”......just what in the hell is that?
Stamped/bent metal holder from Italy affixed to an extruded Chinese bucket, topped off by a label printed in America?
I’m not unhappy with the quality and I’m confident the pail will not fail with a broken handle if I overload it, but just-damn...
We didn’t export them.
We priced ourselves out of those jobs, while always expecting “affordable” goods at the same time. All the while suffocating these companies in regulations and taxes.
We got too picky, and there was a whole nation to our west full of people willing to work for less to make the goods we demand cost less. And a billion of them to buy whatever was leftover.
If people want “good” jobs, then start a company. Otherwise this is the muck we made, and we might as well get used to the smell.
OTOH, companies like Chick Fila I'll continue to patronize.
It is now permissible for chickens that are raised in America to be processed in China and labeled MADE IN AMERICA.
I, for one, plan to buy locally raised chickens in the future.
Hey WalMart... Its called TARIFFS...that’s how you bring jobs back to America
Free Trade doesn’t work. Not a single shred of fact or evidence proves it works. Free Trade is pushed by liberals and liberal universities. The Al Gore School of Economics is as bad as the Al Gore School of Science
Our Founding Fathers and their descendants had tariff based economy for 140 yrs...and the US grew from a bunch of farmers to the largest industrial nation in the world. We went from tariffs and jobs to Free Trade and Socialism
At least, Wal Mart, is seeing some light. Have to make sure that these “Made in America” jobs are filled by Americans, and not Illegal Aliens or H1B visa foreigners
...ping....
For the past 30yrs or more, starting a manufacturing business has been more difficult and costly year after year, where today it is almost impossible, due to overbearing gov’t regulation and taxes.
Add to that the fact you can’t hire who you want, or contract for wages you want to pay and a legal force inventing opportunity to sue.
I say strip regulation and taxation to bear bones, allow Caveat Emptor to control the free market, and manufacturing will quickly return.
Other stores that sell CHINESE MADE GOODS.
WALMART
K-MART
HOBBY LOBBY
ACE HARDWARE
TRUE VALUE HARDWARE
AUTO PATS STORES
SEARS
TARGET
DOLLAR STORE
DOLLAR TREE
DOLLAR GENERAL
HOME DEPOT
LOWES
BARNES AND NOBEL
Almost every store has lots of Chinese goods in it.
***America has exported our Manufacturing base. ***
Somehow Ross Perot’s term “a giant sucking sound” comes to mind.
Bring back American jobs.
I agree. But buy-American schemes won't do it. Until our government makes capital investment more profitable, the jobs will continue to go where it is.