Posted on 02/23/2020 8:40:34 AM PST by Hojczyk
I remember sitting on a commuter train in a big NE city’s suburbs watching a freight train go by. We were ‘waiting’ for it to pass. Rail car after rail car of some sort of equipment. Huge. Bolted down to the flatcars. Easily 75+ railcars. I lost count after that.
One of the other passengers looked out the window and said ‘those are spinnerets.’ The rail line spoke we were on headed directly to a large NE port. And so were all the spinnerets.
They had literally been taken out of a factory in Delaware somewhere and were being shipped, lock stock and barrel, to China. This wasn’t uncommon. We literally gave companies tax breaks to move production OUT of the US.
So not just the presidents. The lobbyists (likely in the pay of the CCP/PLA) and all our elected representatives. Along with a majority of the ‘un’ elected officials who seem to run our entire lives (with much enmity towards us).
It’s pretty hard to beat the price of goods made with slave labor.
“The walmart effect”
But if not Walmart, then Target (gay and all), if not them, then Amazon.
I know what you mean (you use the term Walmart generically), but it’s not reasonable to expect all businesses (and potential businesses) to ignore glaring opportunities - that’s why it always comes down to government policy.
Another way to look at it, if the chairman of GM (absent any government regulations) decided to spend $2,000 per car to clean up emissions, would EVERY other company have done the same? Obviously not (and if they did, they’d probably be investigated for ‘colluding’).
So GM goes broke due to overpriced cars (except for a handful of Tesla-type buyers who need to hold their noses up at others, no would have wasted their money on GM’s cars). So the end result is the same.
“It’s pretty hard to beat the price of goods made with slave labor.”
Easy, import tariffs!
Naaaaahhhhh, too Trumpian...
When you add in the factor all our clothing manufactures decided we didn’t need clothing styles for those over 30, especially in thee 50-80 age group. Even stores like Macy’ and Dillard’s did the same thing.
I now go to the Salvation Army for church dresses.
Then our idiot shoe industry decided 7 was the most common size.
NO WONDER I SHOP AMAZON. I wear a 5 shoe and clothes suitable to a 71 yr old. NOT A STREET WALKER WHICH IS THE 20-30 AGE GROUP.
“Naaaaahhhhh, too Trumpian...”
LOL. But the Deep State will have a REALLY TOUGH TIME continuing to sell Globalism, as shelves start to empty throughout to United State, due to an virus that has barely touched us (at least per what we’re being told).
Who in the US makes them? We have an insufficient number of doctors. We have an insufficient number of everything. We are not prepared for an epidemic.
Maybe the new “virtue signalling” from companies could be “Made in the USA”.
It’s mainly robots that make this stuff. If we can’t beat them in robots then we are pathetic.
They’ll never learn, but you’d think they would learn the drawbacks of putting all of your economic eggs into one Chinese basket.
Let this be a heads up to any American company offshoring manufacturing to the chicoms. I doubt they’ll learn until it’s too late tho’.
Comment on the GP article:
BouncingBee wirenut003 • an hour ago
3M Corporation makes those masks. Yesterday, a friend told me that her daughter received a phone call asking her if she could return to 3M to help make the masks
One thing that is changing in a quired, but massive, way is the cost of the single biggest cost input for any product, energy. People don’t have any idea of the significance of the shell revolutions (plural) that have been taking place over the last 15 or so years. We are the only country that has the necessary geographical and industrial infrastructure to pull off the massive switch to shale. Because there is simply so much oil and natural gas under our soil, and because of the massive decreases in the cost of producing a barrel, or a barrel equivalent, of oil or natural gas, we are assured of ultra low energy prices in this country for the lifetime of anyone reading this. This is all detailed in two books by Peter Zeihan, “The Accidental Superpower” and the follow-up, “The Absent Superpower.”
Combining stable and very low energy prices, with lower taxes and a friendly regulatory environment, as compared to the theft of intellectual property and the threat of nationalization from countries like China, many companies are going to be doing exactly what Donald Trump said was going to happen, which is to move their factories back to this country. We are going to have much less of a problem in 5 or 10 years than we do now with having a bottleneck on production and supplies from China.
China has an aging and ill-educated population, and a very poor infrastructure. They are also quite dependent upon foreigners for energy. On top of that, they have a largely socialist system that is incredibly burdened by Control from the top and corruption on a scale that we can scarcely imagine. They are less of a candidate for would-be superman than the Japanese were in the 1980s and ‘90s, and they will have just as big of a fall as a Japanese have. We are seeing the very beginning’s of that in the last year or two.
Now that is good news. Maybe this should be distributed by the LSM. But I doubt it....
we have an insufficient number of doctors even though there’s one on every block because Americans are like babies that go to the doctor 14 times a week for god-knows-what.
When will Free Traitors™ in this country start to hang themselves in shame?
Re tooling American industry is the potential economic boom of a century.
We need a tariff and we need it now.
Too bad those savings are given away to "investors" and bonuses and never passed on to the consumer.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.