Big Business Plans All-Out Blitz on Washington to End Trade War

[chopchop0]

Originally Posted by thecoalman

I've noticed you ignored my post.





You need to make a choice between someone stocking footwear at Wally World made in China or the higher paid factory worker in a Red Wing factory that can afford to pay for Red Wing footwear. As it is right now you are choosing the Wally World employee stocking the shelves with Chinese made footwear over the higher paid factory worker making Red Wing footwear.

Those cheap Chinese goods on the shelves of US stores are the equivalent of a Native American Indian giving way Manhattan for some shiny glass beads, a few metal axe heads and some other trinkets. We need to fix this issue now, it's not just some employee making a shoe. Their unfair trade practices affect every industry in this country from someone making shoes to high tech industries.

So who are you with? The Chinese or the US worker?

Depends on the scenario. I'm getting us solar panels installed by us installers while I drive the most American made car on the planet, a Tesla.

But for iPhones and TVs? Nope. No point, us workers aren't going to want to do that low margin, low skill work. Same reason farmers use illegal labor on produce and milk farms... Can't find citizens to do the work at the market wage

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by chopchop0

No point, us workers aren't going to want to do that low margin, low skill work. Same reason farmers use illegal labor on produce and milk farms... Can't find citizens to do the work at the market wage

You are pointing out the symptom, not the cause. The wage is low because illegals are willing to accept those low wages. If there is no illegals to take those jobs the wage necessarily needs to rise until someone takes that job. You are more concerned about being able to buy cheap tomatoes than fellow Americans that would take that job at higher wage.



It's bit different with China because we have no control over cheap labor there however we do have control over the numerous other unfair trade practices. There is wide ranging issues that go way beyond labor. Take the windows operating system for example, about 3/4 of installs there are pirated. Their unfair trade practices encompass all industries and it needs to be addressed.

[sean1the1]

Originally Posted by madison999

End the trade war?

Where have these people been for 40 years while the middle class was being gutted?

Oh, right, rolling in their profits.

Right, I'm a liberal, and I support the trade war. These companies have been raking in billions from Americans, but giving back the bare minimum.