Trump Wants To Bring Manufacturing Back To The USA; However Would You Be Willing To Pay A Lot More For Goods? (generation, border)
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My personal opinion is that we would all be better off buying less electronics and junk toys, while bringing more jobs back to the US. A TV basically costs what it did in 1980..so you bought one every 10 years or so and everybody was fine. The only thing I support the government subsidizing or allowing guest workers for is food production, not consumer products. I think the net benefit ...fewer people on benefits, more people working, active, less plastic junk...would benefit the entire nation.
It really seems the Globalists are just fine with "planned obsolescence". That's what the cheap junk is, garbage that requires you to buy the product again in a few years.
I heard a similar discussion on Sirius radio the other day. The one I heard was talking about a specific American company (forgot which one) that makes air conditioners. Most of their air conditioners are made in Mexico. They were predicting a steep increase in prices if the company resumed making the air conditioners back in the States.
It was Carrier.
Moving operations back to the US would only improve the quality if the companies pay decent wages. As a consumer I would (and do) pay more for products made in the US. For the price premium we expect higher quality which will not be achieved by paying employees minimum wage. Decades ago, manufacturing jobs often paid good wages, combined with benefits, and employees generally took pride in their work, staying with the company for years.
Unfortunately, I think the horse has left the barn in this situation and Americans are too hooked on getting the lowest price and disposing of products within a year or two as a new model comes out.
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Originally Posted by Dbones
It really seems the Globalists are just fine with "planned obsolescence". That's what the cheap junk is, garbage that requires you to buy the product again in a few years.
That's pretty much a fallacy, when cheap junk comes here from offshore it's pretty much cheap junk because that's 'how it was specced out. The quality is up to the buyer(s) and how much they're willing to spend.
That's pretty much a fallacy, when cheap junk comes here from offshore it's pretty much cheap junk because that's 'how it was specced out. The quality is up to the buyer(s) and how much they're willing to spend.
There is NO quality coming out of China and other cess pool slave labor nations. It's not how it was spec'd out, it's the quality of the parts used.
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