Baldimo wrote:Do you know why there are so many jobs leaving the country? I can think of a person who was responsible for setting up trade with China, and allowed many American companies to move their manufacturing there. When was the last time you looked at a child's toy and saw "Made in the U.S.A." on it? Even my 7 year old asked me how come all his toys were made in China. I didn't know what to tell him.
How do we explain all the manufacturing jobs that have been shipped to Mexico? You can explain it by using the acronym N.A.F.T.A, which allowed a lot of jobs to be shipped over to Mexico and put thousands of US citizens who worked for US companies out of jobs. To claim anything else isn't being honest.
well, corporations have not been shy in saying that they outsource and remove to other countries to provide stake holders with a better return. that's a lot different than a desire to provide the u.s. with more affordable goods.
if i get your drift, you are referring to clinton. but, as you may remember, nixon was the president that opened the door to china. as far as the toy thing goes, when i was little most of my toys said made in japan. and taiwan.
and cafta, the central american version of the same thing. bush wants to get that going. more jobs to guatemala? can't blame clinton for that one.
free trade on it's own is not a bad thing. that's how the world has always worked. the difference between success and failure is negotiating favorable terms when it comes to controlling the trade deficit.
it doesn't help when, we the people, act just as the corporations and put aside our professed patriotism to get a cheaper dvd player at wal-mart, communist china's 8th largest customer.
i worked most of '80s in corporate america. for a while i was a buyer for a department store chain. suffice it to say that t.y. over l.y. increases were not only planned but demanded. big ones too. some in excess of 6%. 4% was great when i first got in the biz. part of the later '80s models were based almost entirely on cheaper imports that would garner as high as a 72% markup. the boys on mahogany row were dancin' in the isles. most of the stuff came from taiwan, vietnam, maylasia etc. a few items, like knock offs, could be gotten locally, but the, umm..," shop worker" profile wasn't much different than those places.
i got out of that business in 1988, when reagan was president.
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