We need to bring production Back to the USA who agree with me?

Question

smoothfriend4u

Answer 1

Production of what? Please enlighten us!

Answer 2

Absolutely.  The days of wine and roses need to return to get people off crack and welfare and get the production lines going.  Government needs to stop heavily taxing business and make it worthwhile for businesses to open.  Just think.  We'd reduce unemployment, welfare, and the drug problem, and get people off anti-depressants.  Jails would not be filling up as rapidly as they could build them.  Peoples lives would be happier and our Government would not have to depend on poisoned foreign goods and foods.    

Answer 3

I agree but Obama's plan won't do that!

It's all just a bunch of words!

Words, but so is the Communist Manifesto. First most large business is international, Obama  proposed/promised  to punish them for overseas ties, h**l the corporate tax structure is the major factor for their going offshore, the second factor is the lack of a business friendly atmosphere. The left's culture of the "business is the enemy of the proletariat" has driven them to leave, they are expected to fund society's infrastructure, pay all the taxes and provide free benefits to those who never contribute but only block and obstruct their well being. Take the rust belt, no new smelters, no new mills, same as in the oil business, no new refineries, no new drilling. The people blame government for their ills, like New Orleans, demanding more, any attempts to creat jobs in the private sector are met with total resistance by the Unions, or by the Not In My Back Yard, NIMBY's.  They all want to get rich on the stock market through money manipulation, but those stocks are backed by healthy business, take that away and we all lose. FDR started his Socialist reform in 1933, this ratbastard wants to take it to the next level. Total government control of everything. Reward the faithful losers until totalitarian rule is established then the purge begins. Hugo Chavez is a shining example in our time.

What is that Communist fairy tale by Karl Marx? From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs) .

This was my answer, from a friend, to the same question, and I think it's a d**n accurate answer.  Because, I'm 67 yrs old, have watched this happen over the years, and I'm in full agreement.

Our government stiffles business and production in this country, forces business to outsource, and taxes us to death in the process!  

I'd say that is anti-productive!

What do you say?

Answer 4

  It will not happen until or unless burdensome regulations and taxes are eased.

Answer 5

No, it's time for us to move on.

Answer 6

IF it were to happen, the steel industry would have to be brought back to the US instead of shipping ore to China for processing for starters...Then we would need to shut down that damned freeway that they are building from Mexico to Canada...

First things need to be first...Get rid of the governors that allow it--starting with Rick Perry from TX and then work your way up to the rest of the ideologues in congress...It doesn't matter who is in the White House because congress controls everything.

Answer 7

down with NAFTA - agreed :D

Answer 8

Well there's a couple ways you can try to do that.

You can try to eliminate all worker organization, drive wages down to nothing, eliminate all safety and health regulations, etc., in a bid to make American labor cheaper than labor anywhere else in the world.  Which would be pretty d**n cheap.  

At which point, I would wonder why anyone in his right mind would want to live in America.  Should slaves rejoice at how productive their masters have made them?  

Or, you could manage our national trade policy so that it benefits the whole nation, not just the capitalists whose only concern is how cheap they can get labor.  Nor indeed only the workers.  

At which point, some corporations may leave the country.  But, so long as such people are properly excluded from our economy, this would leave their markets and opportunities open for others, who might actually care about the US.

I suppose neither approach is really ideal.  But not much in life is.

Answer 9

I wouldn't mind seeing it, but as long as the U.S. continues to have the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, it probably won't happen.

On another note, people think that because we have a large trade deficit and because a lot of manufacturing jobs have left, that means we don't export anything.  As other developed nations are doing, the U.S. is moving more towards technological and intellectual production.  The U.S. still exports more goods and services than any other country (including China).  We just consume so much more than anyone else, it creates the deficit.

Answer 10

This is easier said than done.  The risk-adjusted cost of hiring American workers is enormous.  Look at all the employee-related lawsuits.  They are very costly.  Legal reform is a necessary first step.

Answer 11

The Knights of Malta do not !

Answer 12

I agree..but that's not happening until the unions go the way of the dinosaur.

Answer 13

Conservative govts work much better with production govt

Answer 14

If all those jobs are disappearing, why is unemployment so low?  

The answer is: We are morphing into a service economy, and have been for a long time.  The obsolete manufacturing jobs that have either moved offshore (making blue jeans) or vanished altogether (making buggy whips) are being more than replaced by new service sector jobs.  The reason we hear a lot about the jobs that went away, but very little about new jobs, is because it’s very easy for journalists to track down and interview on video tape those people whose jobs were “exported”—but it is very difficult to find the people who are about to fill all the new jobs being created, largely in the service sector.    

Granted, that does not make it any more pleasant for those whose jobs are going away.  Let’s face it, not many of us relish the prospect of losing our jobs.  On the other hand, most of us expect our standard of living to continue increasing.  But we simply can’t have it both ways.  If we want our standard of living to increase, we have to cope with the churn, the process that creates new jobs, products, and services that displace the old jobs, products, and services.  We in the USA have chosen to emphasize (and cope with) the process of creative destruction; the Euro zone in general has instead chosen to emphasize protecting old jobs.  Many think that’s the primary explanation for the higher growth rate in our region (and I'm one of them).  

Below is the chart look at page 10 (Chapter 5) of the IMF report, Note that the USA is less industrialized than most other countries on the chart, including Thailand, India, Brazil, Mexico, and Russia.  I bet they’re getting a lot of those manufacturing jobs we’re “exporting.”  But also note one other thing: the USA is the wealthiest economy on the chart.  That’s because we have progressed to a service economy.   [I wonder what the "progressives" think about this progress we've made, even though it required exporting a lot of old jobs...]

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/...

Answer 15

Sounds good but I don't own a manufacturing plant.  Of course the economics of it, make it very unlikely.

Answer 16

I AGREE BUT WE CAN'T DO THAT WITH MCCAIN WHO WILL CONTINUE THE OLD BUSH POLICY OF GIVING COMPANIES TAX INCENTIVES FOR OUT SOURCING AMERICANS JOBS OVER SEA.

Answer 17

Yes, and the ownership of the power of production ought to be in the hands of the broadest number of people possible. In other words, factories ought to be founded (and thus owned) by factory workers. Give people ownership of their craft. We'll be able to produce the greatest products in the world if that happens.