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I find it so sad that our country that once lead the world in manufacturing have failed to keep these companies here. This is were we need to give huge tax breaks for companies to keep manufacturing HERE. Pass laws that will give tax breaks to companies that keep or start manufacturing here. Pass a law that the company will get tax breaks for hiring and maintaining a certain % of manufacturing jobs. Everyone is so anti-big business that we will soon have none left here and we will have no jobs because like it or not those business keep us working.
I don't believe I heard anything with the Amana colonies closed down their manufacturing.
1. Amana did not close thier Whirpool operations. In fact, they are hiring
2. I thought liberals were opposed to free trade?
3. Free trade works when the standard of living and wages among those trading nations are comparable.
4. "Free trade" conducted with nations who use very low wage workers or slave laborers deteriorates the standard of living for workers in all nations involved.
Free trade is a great thing in an ideal sense. Throw in subsistence wage workers and slave labor, and the whole concept falls apart.
Thank you Bill Clinton. Ross Perot was right. Remember when the liberals laughed at Ross Perot when he told them exactly what would happen?
Then we need to put a huge tariff fee on Whirlpool to even bring those items back into America.
We need manufacturing jobs here and if they want to leave here and then sell them in America we should make them pay a heavy fee for doing so.
The only way we cans stop these companies from moving out of the US is to nail them to the wall with fees so they will be forced to stay right here.
They have a free market already, they just want to screw over America workers and of course hire someone for 2.00 and expect to send those items back into America for the same price.
PENALIZED ALL AMERICAN COMPANIES THAT HAS LEFT, IS LEAVING OR WANTS TO LEAVE.
Force them to stay right here by adding fees on them returning the goods to America.
Hey, lets do the liberal thing and just BOYCOTT WHIRLPOOL?
Wow. First you showcase yourself in other posts as a staunch opponent of evil "socialist" government intrusion into private enterprise, and now you come crying to Big Government to intervene in the markets and do things your way? How cute and funny.
Do you guys seriously think that if NAFTA was never passed then Whirlpool would still be making refrigerators in Indiana?
Whirlpool would have shut it down no matter what. American manufacturing of cheap consumer products and appliances is dead. There is no profit in it (unless you want to be paying for $4000 fridges).
Learn to adapt and move on.
Much better that we have lots of cheap crap made by workers that put in excessively long hours and barely paid enough to feed their families, right?
Whoever ends up working in that factory in Mexico probably would make more picking fruit in California and being on guard for Immigration/Homeland Security. (Otherwise, all manufacturers would just move over there and workers would stay there. Fewer immigration issues instantly)
Americans need to wake up to the fact that goods aren't as cheap as they want them to be. Buy less crap, save more, be less wasteful. Its not that hard.
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