Posted on 07/26/2012 9:05:56 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
How about our corporations get with the program and stop building up China.
Just asking.
Not going to happen... not with the kind of manufacturing base that they have helped set up in China.
It’s got to happen.
Otherwise the USA is done.
Then their money is done.
Then ... everything is done.
Just saying. Bring back jobs now.
Might be a good idea. Combine our ability to use techy things to locate problems, with the Indian Navy’s willingness to actually use a deck gun against pirates. Maybe it’s an idea.
The USA needs to cultivate a genuine strategic alliance with India. Indian is the great natural ally for the USA in this century.
Customers and investors drive businesses, and customers demand lower prices and investors demand higher profits. In order to lower their cost structure, companies outsource non-critical activities to places where they can get the most value for their money.
This, in turn, allows them to offer their products at a lower price, and depending on what the company does, millions of customers could benefit. Likewise, the investors then receive higher profits and better returns on their investments.
I used to agree with you on that theory. I do not anymore.
We stopped demanding a level playing field. We threw out our bathwater, and now we’re failing.
We need to start playing defense as well as offense.
Charge to import into America, and build back up our industry.
Now.
Tariffs will only shrink the size of our economy.
Consumers will have to pay higher prices and our exporting industries will surfer from retaliatory tariffs.
Higher prices = less demand = smaller economy
Gotta run.
Wish you a good evening. :D
That is a nice sentiment. As long as folks line up outside (fill in the discount chain store here) to get their Chinese stuff cheap— it will never happen.
We are pretty much done.
Protectionism will work about as well as the drug war. It’s futile, like trying to stop the tides.
I disagree.
However a change needs to be made, here in America.
We need, yes need to start insisting on balance. That means right now, we need to enact import tariffs.
Significant import tariffs.
Double the price of our oil, for the children!
Doubly ironic is your last comment, when compared to your tagline.
You’re sleeping.
America did absolutely fine, for the 200 years we ran a surplus.
America is DYING now, because we have exported all our manufacturing.
You almost cannot find anything made in America anymore. Nowhere.
It is a very large shame.
No.
China is a new thing. China is four times the size of America, population-wise.
Four times. That means China will expand and expand and expand.
We need to take action now. China has now overtaken America in exports.
Time to stop messing around.
Look we are messing around while China is eating our breakfast, lunch and dinner.
China is not open.
China does no allow competition WITH China. China cedes nothing. China imports “American” car factories, it does not import American cars.
Yet we continue on, as if everything is just fine...
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