Posted on 02/07/2011 4:08:13 AM PST by Kaslin
No it doesn't. It's just an excuse.
I don't see anything wrong with making both if we can.
Right! Take all their profits and distribute them to the needy.
Food is probably the biggest one.
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And population control. Make no mistake, that is stage 2 of Globalism. Just as we now compete for jobs, our children will compete for birthrights, lest they produce useless eaters to drain the dole.
It's just another free market, after all. /sarc
“In a free market shouldn’t those 299 people be looking out for themselves?”
Absolutely
“Is the owner preventing them from starting their own businesses?”
No!! But start up costs and acquiring capital are very difficult the last couple of years.
“Who’s to blame for workers not honing their skills, getting a degree or learning new trades?”
No One-—However:
1) College degrees are worthless...no employer cares.
2) IT is outsourced or H1b’d into the US—I see it with Dell,IBM and Samsung right here in Austin. Graphic design is also being outsourced to India
3) CDL’s-—trucking companies are using Mexicans and Eastern Europeans much more because they can pay them NOTHING,work them to death(Russians urinate in jar in the cab rather than stopping) and the wages have stagnated to 1999 levels.
4) Culinary skills-—pretty much same with CDL’s
5) Construction skills—again with the Influx of immigrants—legal or illegal.
I am open to suggestions for future skills development.
JMO...
Just this weekend we were looking to purchase new every day dishes and kitchen cutlery. We did not go to Wal-Mart or the other cheap-o stores but Macy's, Bon-Ton ...
It was almost impossible at those stores to find anything made in the USA.
We did not purchase anything but upon returning home we did a search for those items with Made In the USA as part of the search.
There were 3 USA firms making china/stoneware for everyday use and a few Cutlery firms. The prices were not out of line with what we had seen at Macys or Bon-Ton.
I would highly recommend we all do searches BEFORE we head to the store for an item to see what is and is not made in the USA.
Don't look to the government, to solve the exodus of US manufacturing jobs but take control of your own pocket book and with a little extra effort support the USA’s economy when possible.
PS: Maybe Martha Stewart should rethink her allegiance to China in her dish and cutlery lines. After all we gave her free room and board for a few months at a fine federal facility.
Yeah, I would expect to see something like that—which would give lie to these other claims.
Then why did BMW build a plant here???
I see more Made in China than Made in Mexico. Although I think the manufacturing that is being bought by other countries that is American is our Apple Products. They are selling like hotcakes overseas as well as America. Thank God for Apple that is lifting our manufacturing numbers.
And that which we don’t make, we don’t want to make. Every parent in the neighborhood in which I grew up drilled into us that we would go to college and not work in factories like our parents. I think that was a common dream of the greatest generaration, that their children, the baby boomers, have it easier than they did.
Once, in sixth grade, one of my class mates asked the teacher a pertinent question. “If everyone is smart, who will do the dirty work?” The question was not really answered, but the correct answer is “nobody.”
Then there are the environmentalists who never saw a factory that didn’t pollute too much, and the NIMBY movement, many who whom bemoan the lack of manufacturing in America, but watch what happens if you try to build a factory anywhere near where they live.
When we Americans want to make stuff, we do, and we do make a lot of stuff, but we would make a lot more, if we really wanted to. We Americans are good at solving problems, and if we really wanted to manufacture more efficiently and more cheaply than the Chinese, we would. If we really wanted to get around the regulations and the taxes, we would to that, too. Of course, it would be better, if we could get rid of the legal impediments to manufacturing, and now, maybe we can even do that.
Because.
You can manufacture the ecologically sensitive curliecue lamps in China. And throw the mercury waste into the river.
You can manufacture the Hello Kitty kids' jewelry in China, and get rid of the cadmium waste from your NiCad battery plant.
You can corner the market in Rare Earths, and throw the radiaoctive thorium waste into the river, or, better yet, build thorium reactors.
And when your workers wear out, you can throw them away, or eat them. You can even extract heparin from them and sell it.
"No!! But start up costs and acquiring capital are very difficult the last couple of years..."
Not only that, but not all individuals have the ability, education, vision or desire to start a business. Moreover, even if every American could somehow own their own business, they cannot possibly all succeed. The market would select only the most desirable products and services. The majority of the startups would be back to square one in a jiffy, only now with incurred expenses and tarnished credit.
The notion of a total Ownership Society, whether it speaks to homes or businesses, is just another unatainable utopia. There will always be those who can work but cannot own or lead. It does not follow that they should starve.
I have a large selection of Apple devices in my electronics collection. The last one I can find that was made in the USA is over 10 years old. Apple manufactures their products in Pacific Rim countries.
So what?? My parents discouraged me from doing factory and when I kids I’m going to encourage them to do non factory work. I figure most of factories in the future will be 90% automated..
But, it IS meeting the needs of the regime, Comrade!
Yeah that’s obviously what I was trying to get at with my post. I mean it’s pretty ridiculous to think that America can’t do both...
Is there something ignoble about factory work? Many people (myself included) began our careers on a factory floor. Are we somehow inferior?
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