tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post5856526917643299938..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: You don't get no answers if you don't ask no questions.Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-30300765022649598252020-12-05T17:13:30.737-05:002020-12-05T17:13:30.737-05:00Mr. Sykes, I don't dispute the advantageous ec...Mr. Sykes, I don't dispute the advantageous economics and freedom from burdensome regulation that inform the choice to relocate. Nancy Pelosi and her husband moved some factory they own to Guam to escape minimum wage laws. Epic hypocrisy. The same kind of hypocrisy about race and immigrants that drives people to live as far away from blacks and immigrants.<br /><br />The part that's reprehensible and incomprehensible is the failure of all here at home who are charged with advancing and safeguarding the interests of the American population. It is not hard to see that cheaper Chinese goods at Walmart do not make up for the loss of our industrial base and the transformation of a large part of our economy into a service economy. Vast amounts of American treasure flowed to China and we also lost valuable IP to Chinese extortion and theft on the part of Chinese nationals allowed to work and study in the US.<br /><br />Free trade is a highly suspect thing as an absolute good and, for sure, no US officials exerted themselves even to work for some kind of "fair" trade. US trade deficits with Europe as well as China have been ludicrous but nothing was done. England, I believe, prospered behind tariffs yet our exit ramps and bank accounts were left wide open.<br /><br />So Americans were sold out in the name of wider profit margins and places like Detroit were turned into rotting buildings and a range for coyotes. Immigration has done the same immense damage involving as it does job theft by the tens of millions of jobs, downward wage pressure from immigrant competition, and welfare parasitism.<br /><br />Advantages of operation in China thus can't be looked at in isolation but as the result also of a criminal indifference if not actual malevolence.<br /><br />As I suggest in my piece, the beneficiaries of this off-shoring are well aware of what they get from it and who is hurt by it. The amazing attack on Trump in this area (as in several other) is an indicator of a deliberate intent to destroy America. Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-5691013913689872682020-12-05T16:52:31.557-05:002020-12-05T16:52:31.557-05:00Nitzakhon, thank you. I look forward to reading i...Nitzakhon, thank you. I look forward to reading it. I think you may have sent me something earlier but I failed to respond. If so, kindly overlook my bad manners. These last few months have been a bit of a whirl as I try to make sense out of what's happening.<br /><br />That's ironic but sad about your former employer wanting to avoid that "high-price" Chinese labor closer to the coast. I get it that an employer might need to shave every expense possible if the survival of the firm is at stake but I don't get the impulse to drive employees to the wall by relentlessly seeking out cheaper and more desperate labor.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-12432704378937504352020-12-05T16:43:24.742-05:002020-12-05T16:43:24.742-05:00Thank you kindly, Linda. That's high praise c...Thank you kindly, Linda. That's high praise considering the source!Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-31696347993031208872020-12-04T08:25:40.390-05:002020-12-04T08:25:40.390-05:00The reason that China became the world's facto...The reason that China became the world's factory is really straightforward and requires no conspiracies. Because of labor costs, regulations (including environmental) and general ease of doing business (huilu), it was cheaper to make things in China and ship them home than to make them in Ohio. Why the choice of China rather than India is due to the general ineptness and corruption that vitiates everything Indian.sykes.1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10954672321945289871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-90904301679572394422020-12-04T07:35:40.167-05:002020-12-04T07:35:40.167-05:00Excellent.
Colonel, I'll email you a piece I ...Excellent.<br /><br />Colonel, I'll email you a piece I wrote under my own name regarding the absolute folly of all this offshoring.<br /><br />It's money, pure and simple.<br /><br />At a former employer the Director of Operations was looking at moving factories inland from Shenzhen / Guangdong. Why? Because the labor rates there were getting too high.<br /><br />NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-8323858230049238682020-12-04T07:22:07.821-05:002020-12-04T07:22:07.821-05:00The best thing I've read about this in many mo...The best thing I've read about this in many months. Kudos.Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.com