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From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:17:09 -0400, Ed P
wrote:
>On 9/11/2024 4:42 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
>> In article ,
>> governor.swill@gmail.com says...
>>>
>>>> And Trump wants to add 20% tariffs on our needs too. He does not
>>>> understand how that works. Harris called him out and he showed how
>>>> stupid he is about them
>>>
>>> Indeed. He still insists China paid those taxes. It's like he's
blissfully
>>> unaware that it was American consumers who gave them the money to do it.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>
>> He wants to to put the tariffs on the goods so it will make the
>> companies move back to the US to create more jobs. It may have
>> prevented John Deere from just moving to Mexico to save on labor cost so
>> they could make more money. About 1000 jobs just got sucked south.
>>
>In the past maybe 30 or so years many jobs have been lost overseas. Can
>we get them back? Yes, but we will have to pay more for the goods.
Exactly.
>I bought my first TV in 1966 and it was made in the US. It has been
>quite a few years since that has happened though some are assembled here.
>
>That first B&W portable was about $150 then and I can get a decent TV
>for the same real dollars today.
>
>Are we willing to pay for those jobs? Remember when Dad worked in the
>factory and made enough to support a family and buy a modest house? We
>can't do that and have cheap appliances.
After WWII, cheap stuff was made in Japan, as in the expression, Made in
Japan. But as time went on, wages got too high in Japan and they had to
off-short their manufacturing to the Phlipines, Indonesia, Taiwan, and
as wages got too high, they off-shored their manufacturing to Viet Nam,
Laos, Pakistan, etc.
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