Okay but your statement was along the lines of "the economic power we are today" Up until the last 25 years, a great deal of the source of that power is manufacturing based.Originally Posted by Xiahou
A lot of this is subjective, particularly terms like "value" and "prosperous". Yep corporate profits are through the roof, all that cheap labor oversea's, and wonderful environmental laws make it a no brainer.Manufacturing is mainly limited to high-tech, high-skill goods- even still, our manufacturing output still far outpaces any other country in terms of value produced. It's really tough to argue with results- increased free trade has grown our economy and made America more prosperous.
Of course I buy american, My toyota was put together in alabama![]()
So they are fightening us by saying they are taking jobs, but later its only "low skill jobs". Wonderful Xiahou ! I thought this new immigration amnesty was BS anyway. So we dont need them here either, unless they are just going to take more low skill jobs?Yes, we need politicians who are concerned about our economy. Sadly, too many try to frighten us with the Japanese, or more recently the Chinese/Indians and tell us how they're taking our jobs and ruining the economy. The facts never seem to bear this out, but they keeps scare mongering anyway. The truth is that China and other countries are primarily taking low-skill jobs and, in turn, providing us with cheap goods. It's good for them, and it's good for us.
The facts do bare out that jobs are being lost in some form (indirectly state by your own comments) sure we can banter about americans wont do them yadda yadda, but if we didnt have such an open market for others to fill the "low skill" and "cheap goods" market forces might actually make it possible for someone to make a good wage making key chains.
I.m all for joe shmoe in Bejing for having a good job, but lets allow the market to determine the value. Thats not how it works though is it? Right off the bat the american worker is at a disadvantage because he is in competition with a country who controls the wage via currency controls.
Without the same control, or counter measure he dosent have a chance, and then you become dependent on that control to maintain the goods at the same price level. To many variables that allow others access/input into the republic.
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