Posted on 04/06/2016 5:07:12 AM PDT by central_va
That is a stupid analogy. The factories didn’t disappear, THEY WERE MOVED TO ASIA AND ELSEWHERE. The analogy falls apart immediately.
[ Every time the Left tries to take a populist whack at Big Business (like the California minimum wage law), they do absolutely nothing to hurt Big Business with its armies of lawyers and lobbyists - but they end up punching smaller businesses right in the face. When called on this, they get defensive - and their arguments always boil down to it being their good intentions that count, not the results. ]
BINGO and NAILED IT!
In fact a lot of Big Biz that is in Bed with Big Gov, write the laws for Big Gov to “sound good” to the populist socialist agrarian MUSH on the outside, but the laws and regs are used as a TOOL to keep their competition DOWN.
Remove a lot of these “Internal Tariffs” and the big boys then have to compete against small and mid level operators, can someone say TIMBER in the OLD BIG BIZ grown forests, followed by the NEW sound of Vigorous YOUNG Tree growth?
Business should be like Forests, right now the Big Gov is keeping the old growth / dead wood intact and preventing the cleansing forest fires and keeping the tree seeds falling on the forest floor from growing... They keep doing this and sooner or later we will see a CATASTROPHIC forest fire as all the undergrowth if gonna burn.... Trees need to grow, get big fall over and spring forth new life, the cycles of nature / business is not being served by keeping a decrepit forest (Big Biz/ Big Gov. Alliance) alive....
It is not just automation. You are stupidly or deceitfully confusing the automation issue with offshoring. The issues are unrelated. Automation reduces all manufacturing jobs every where, off shoring reduces jobs in the USA. Do you get the difference?.
How about a completed embargo, a tariff taken to its logical extreme, what effect would that have?
——The rest of us will work in services.——
My part time retirement job is service to manufacturers
Oh, I think most understand it, but that doesn't change the levels of frustration for people who lose good jobs, for whatever reasons.
In Mr. Trump's promise to "make America great again", many people forget that "make" is a synonym for "build" and "manufacture".
People, especially men, want to make, build & manufacture in America.
It helps explain Mr. Trump's popularity.
Its gonna be a bitch when eventually we reach the point where oil production peaks, and then enters decline. Resources aren’t infinite. We don’t grow corn, we manufacture corn using fossil-fuels. (Haber-Bosch)
Right now we are in a glut.
Should be interesting to see which wins the race, oil depletion, Mexican-overrun/Reconquista, or Muslims-in-Europe. Or China becoming dominant.
The West and its way of life is doomed. And the cute thing, trying to replace fossil-fuels with alternatives... guess what, most of those alternatives require rare earth metals. Guess which country has the most rare earth metals; yup, China. (US has like one major mine owned by Molycorp)
Unless you can prove that the US is not part of ‘everywhere’ your point is pointless.
Automation is stealing US jobs just like trade is.
Machines/computers are replacing Americans.
That worked in a lot of cases because the displaced farmers could move to industrial jobs, where the skills they'd acquired over a lifetime could be put to good use. Where are the displaced industrial workers going to go? "Services?" is a simplistic answer at best. In order to provide a service, someone has to be willing to pay for it. What are the employers of services going to use for money?
It's not that I think this requires a government solution, or even that there IS one. But any rush to embrace technological enhancements to productivity comes at a human cost. We need to anticipate that eventuality.
Mine is in service to farmers.
You missed the part of those charts which show US manufacturing output keeps growing, even as employment falls.
The "villain" here is automation as much as anything else.
Note US worker productivity growth since 1947:
I agree they are bad things but go after them as a separated issue. But offshoring for the cheapest labor has nothing to do with it.
"Movement" conservatives, God bless their little hearts, have been brainwashed into this ruse by big cap corporation and our corrupt government. They get you on board with the anti regulations / anti tax rhetoric when in fact those are used as political cover for the real hidden goal which is searching the world for the cheapest labor. So called movement conservatives fall for the bait everytime. When will you learn?
Do you support Cruz?
Do you support Cruz?
Hard to disagree with you on people’s perception about manufacturing jobs and Trump’s promises. But the reality is what it is.
There is plenty of work to do in this country. If the government would just get out of the way people would go back to work just like they always have.
Do you support Cruz?
Absent imports, either thru tariffs, embargos or quotas, the nation would be going gangbusters to build replacement manufacturing capacity and the economy would be going gang busters. What an economic idiot you are.
BOOM, great post!
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