backhoeboogie said:aplusmnt said:Tex said:Let me give you a very good way of stopping what you suggest is a problem aplus--the shipping of U.S. jobs overseas---- STOP IMPORTING FOREIGN MANUFACTURED GOODS OR TAX THEM FOR BEING ABLE TO SELL IN OUR MARKETS UNTIL THERE IS NO TRADE DEFICIT!
U.S. companies would only send their work overseas when those overseas plants made goods for that country, just as we made the Japanese manufacturors do here in the U.S.
We have had a sorry trade policy and it is undermining our economy---just so we could have low interest rates and the semblences of a strong economy. Just who is buying our failing companies now?
I can not say I disagree with you!
But in the mean time I don't think it is a bad thing for States and especially local governments to give Tax breaks on things such as property taxes to entice new manufactures to bring jobs into the area. Who knows if the trade problem will ever be solved. So in the mean time local people have to look out for their local problems.
You have to bear in mind that all you are buying usually consists of assembly lines. The figure heads, Research and Development, Engineering, Metalurgical Research, and the like is back at the home office (overseas). These are the high dollar positions in the corporation and these positions are not brought into the local economy where the assembly plants are. Mike started this out with "$18 an hour top pay scale" or something of the like. The huge salaried positions are back at the overseas locales.
Buy American - or blame the gubnant - whatever.
Backhoe, the Chinese are stealing the technology you say brings the higher jobs. When one plant is built over there, they can and do sometimes copy the plant and procedures to produce the same products and compete with the U.S. technology. The chineses didn't build all that technology they use to compete with us themselves--- it came largely from us. They have no regard for intellectual property.
I have been around quite a few students and they are not all white collar potential. We need good jobs for all of them, not just the best.
Like I said before, I wouldn't be so vocal about these issues if we didn't have a trade deficit and we were not allowing the Chinese to gain so much of our currency they can use to waive over our heads just because they suppress their population in terms of freedom, liberty, media, ect.
We are working towards George Orwell's 1984.