Trump says U.S. likely to go ahead with tariffs on Mexico over immigration
So, lets look at why Trump may be doing this dastardly, horrible deed, which will destroy millions of lives. Simple: The deep state claws are so deep, they control so much, and the unrestricted influx of foriegners is one of their primary weapons in destroying national identity to facilitate a move to a world government. If you destroy a countries identity, and culture, you homoginize the social structure, then you sell the idea of why we need a world wide government to ensure everything is divided up "fairly". Thus the huge muslim invasion of Europe, the wars in the middle east to force them to run, the political upheaval in south america to force them to run. Do you see a pattern? How do you fight back when only 10% of the country may actually see the big picture of all the manipulation of the last 80 years? Force them to battle. The demorats already laid down the parameters, "No emergency, no problem at border, no wall", yet there is typhus and typhoid fever breaking out in LA and San Francisco (and never a word from them on that "crisis"). So, you threaten tariffs on a country that is owned by the deep state and facilitates their machinations by ignoring any "people issues" (after you got you socialist candidate elected, there), and hammer them in what will, if carried out, crash their economy, and those of the many companies in the U.S. that, funny, have the primary support of the deep state side (Unions). The auto unions will go nuts because they will be schizophrenic, Trump may force companies to come back to the US, good for their members, but also he may hammer them when companies lay off US workers because of dropping sales. This will play out in many industries and has 2 sides, makes it cheaper to grow food and make things here, because the tariffs kill off the cheap labor thing, and also will make the US safer because we no longer import huge food amounts from Mexico, where they can be contaminated (and sometimes are) by "nefarious means". How many Ecoli outbreaks were traced to stuff brought in? How easy would it be to lace it with something much worse? How do you detect it? The war goes on....
I think the whole offshoring phenomenon started with American worker entitlement- taken advantaged of by collectivists here looking for votes by promising freebies
The companies reacted by trying to get rid of American workers and finding places to manufacture that cost less, had fewer regulations, and reduced the cost of lawsuits
China saw the opportunity and to their credit supplied what the companies wanted. Mexico COULD have too but did compete with China very well. China’s communists saw the opportunity to get the peasants to make money for the government and let them rule the world
Our stupid government let it all happen by increasing USA worker expectations and regulations- feeding the fire of outsourcing
Tariffs are a piss poor way to stop this. We need NOW elimination if minimum wage, overtime laws, worker regulations etc
Chinese stuff costs 1/3 of what USA mfrs charge. 25% tariff is just a tax but does nothing to shift mfg back to the USA tariffs would have to be 300% to do that, and would result in unacceptable price increases here
I will grant you that our government was in favor of the shift to China. The cost savings to companies allowed for the inflation caused by the rampant printing of money to be hidden. If manufacturing came back to the USA, prices here would rise to the levels they should have been all along
The problem was caused by government policies and I don’t think it can be fixed by boycotting China or Mexico or Canada. We need a gold standard to allow costs in China to rise and equalize trade
I am not promoting the chinese at all. I have had other businesses in the USA where we were vertically integrated and made everything right here in the USA. Its just not possible financially to do the same thing in our partly capitalistic welfare society- and stay in business against the chinese imports of finished goods that we have to compete with. I have thought every time I send money over there that I am propping up a vcicious totalitarian regime and it will come back to haunt us in the end.
In Nevada they just passed a minimum wage increase which will make it even more difficult to make things here.
As to the quality issues, have to stick with what I know is true at least in my personal experience. I agree that there is a common feeling that chinese stuff is cheap crap.
No, they are not.
You obviously have an interest in promoting Chinese which is your business.
With all due respect I disagree with that assumption.
If Chinese quality was so bad, we wouldn’t have lost our manufacturing sector to them. Remember that in the past American car quality was terrible and it took the Japanese to force Americans to keep even the fraction of it that’s left here
Biggest prob with Americans is that as a group we are entitled, not very ambitious, we disparage competition and capitalism
The Chinese are the opposite, which is why they are whipping our asses
It is well known that Chinese products are NOT as good as products made in this country and ignoring that fact would be a mistake.
You remember the Parker pens made by China decades ago, bypassing patent restrictions?
Everybody who bought them was aware they were not buying genuine Parker and they did not perform as well. But they were cheap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Ch...
They also did dog food:
https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary...
https://pettreatinfo.com/melamine-in-...
One reason I refuse to buy any meat treats for dogs, that are not made in the USA, and there are not a lot of those. Best deal has been Costco chicken strips. Worst is going to Wal Mart where almost all are from China. Nope. Don't trust them at all.
Note Foxconn who makes apple stuff. Whatever they do seems to work. I haven’t ever had quality issues with my iPhones
We buy 70% of our components from China in order to stay in business. Take out China and our economy will crash. Eventually things will stabilize when made in USA returns but prices will be up to 3x higher than now
That said, I don’t think China is our friend, and I don’t like supporting their communist government at all. Our government is pretty stupid to print money as it does and waste it on socialist policies. Buying from Chiba has hidden the price inflation we should be experiencing but aren’t. Bring manufacturing back to USA and we will experience the full brunt of inflation that we deserve after all our deficit spending
The Chinese economy is very competitive and prices and quality vary by vendor just as they do for USA mfrs.
I would estimate that most of home depot’s ( as well other stores) Offerings are made in China at this point. I can tell you that the parts we buy from China are 1/3 the price of ones actually made here and we specify and have gotten excellent quality.
It’s up to us to do proper sourcing and stand behind our products, no matter where we source our components.
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