Well, you're not the smartest reader I've had.
Posted on 01/18/2017 5:19:10 AM PST by expat_panama
...you seem to believe you’re in control...
Absolutely not, you chose to make the big talk about money so you're the one stuck making the choice that comes next: show me the money or drop it.
This little game show rap you’ve got going is just goofy. Show you the money? What? You’re the fool who keeps claiming that exchange rates have “no effect” upon trade. My goodness, I guess the Brexiteers have no reason to fear, and neither do we. Our good offshore trading friends have nothing but our best interests at heart and there is no advantage whatsoever with their currency being perpetually lower than the US dollar. Nope, none at all. Strong dollar goooood. Tariff stupid. Strong dollar good. Tariff stupid. Keep on repeating that mantra, it’s worked for going on three decades. Something tells me it’s about to stop working, though. You might want to find a new schtick.
Trump has watched this for years, and he’s about to put the smack down.
Hello...wake up and smell the coffee...
Carrier, Ford, GM, Alibaba, Apple, and many others have already announced they will invest in American manufacturing over Mexico or other cheap labor countries.
And Trump is not even inaugurated yet. Nothing personal
at all against you, but Trump has probably done million times bigger deals with foreign countries than most of us here, so I prefer to believe him over naysayers.
Learn to read.
I asked a polite question.
Thank you for your answer.
Thank you for your insult.
Much appreciated.
Learn not to post like a raving lunatic capitalizing every other word. I bet your real voice is annoying as hell as you emphasize every other word. No one can tell what is important when you do that.
“The last thing we need is a weak dollar and more imports...””
—you
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3515161/posts?page=100#100
If that doesn’t mean “weak doller” = “more imports”... well, actually, it does mean that.
Maybe you mistyped but that is what you typed.
Well, you're not the smartest reader I've had.
As opposed to you, I actually worked for 23 years in a corporation which designed and manufactured automation machinery for others.
Yes, our machines eliminate simple assembly jobs, and simple machining jobs, but to design, build and maintain that automation machines, we employed highly skilled engineers, highly skilled machinists to operate computer controlled lathes and milling machines, welders, flame cutters, computer programmers, robot programmers, etc etc.
So it is basically transformation from low skilled jobs to highly specialized skill jobs.
“The last thing we need is a weak dollar and more imports...”
—you
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3515161/posts?page=100#100
In reality, a weak dollar buys fewer imports.
I agree, that income taxes generally punish hard work and success.
I also believe that a worker producing products which are useful and have a demand in marketplace should be taxed lower than very short term capital gains. Long term capital gains should be indexed to inflation.
I have personal/professional knowledge of one of those deals you've mentioned, and it's really a lot of B.S. at the end of the day. The company will be investing in a new plant and hiring X new people, while shutting down other locations that will result in the loss of 2X jobs. It's a restructuring more than anything else.
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