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I would be OK with totally turning off Chinese imports tomorrow; too bad Walmart, your business model is flawed. Bring the jobs back to our shores and reopen the factories here!
I would be OK with totally turning off Chinese imports tomorrow; too bad Walmart, your business model is flawed. Bring the jobs back to our shores and reopen the factories here!
That would be so great if we had our factories again. I did not think about it that much when we had them, you know what they, you don't miss something until it's gone Sassy
I would be OK with totally turning off Chinese imports tomorrow; too bad Walmart, your business model is flawed. Bring the jobs back to our shores and reopen the factories here!
I'm with you on banning Chinese imports. I don't really care what it does to Walmart or the US economy. Although, in todays global economy that may not be possible. For example, if Toyota Japan were to buy parts from China and ship them to their Toyota US factory, we would end up with an American-made car from Japan with Chinese parts. How many computers have at least one Chinese part in them? Should we ban Dell computers for using a Chinese-made integrated circuit?
I'm with you on banning Chinese imports. I don't really care what it does to Walmart or the US economy. Although, in todays global economy that may not be possible. For example, if Toyota Japan were to buy parts from China and ship them to their Toyota US factory, we would end up with an American-made car from Japan with Chinese parts. How many computers have at least one Chinese part in them? Should we ban Dell computers for using a Chinese-made integrated circuit?
OK, maybe we couldn't turn if off in 1 day, but we certainly could over time. And we didn't get into this whole China thing in 1 day either.
We need to take away the incentives for CEOs to move the jobs overseas. Perhaps tarrifs or tax disincentives. Or big incentives for opening factories here and employing Americans. Make it costly to send jobs overseas since that's the only thing big business understands.
There's an infinite number of possibilities and combinations that could restore our economic health and security. What we are doing now is all the wrong things.
There should ban on Chinese goods imported into the US, UK and Europe. (clothes, electrical etc). There should also be a halt put on these countries businesses transferring work over to China or partnering companies over there. We have all got struggling economies. Surely it is logical that you have products manufactured in said countries you would be creating employment, thus people will have money to spend....
Plus if you have any patents etc, China will only just copy them and you won't have a leg to stand on.
It is also rather hypocritical of certain nations, who condemn the human rights or rather total lack of it in China and yet import a considerable amount of products and transfer businesses over there. Their factories are alike prisons, there is also a high amount of suicides within them. Their Government and heads of companies are just totally inhumane.
China is still the aggressor in Tibet. They invaded a peaceful nation and have done untold horrors to the people of that country and yet the rest of the world stands by and does nothing... It would be a different matter if it had huge Oil reserves.
Instead of a total ban we should, as malamute suggests, institute countervailing tariffs set to negate any price advantage gained by overseas production due to slave wages, lax environment enforcement and government subsidy.
Yes this would increase the costs of "consumer" goods in this country until automated American factories started supplying the resulting market. Then the recently reemployed and well paid American workers would have more money to pay for the products they make. The loss of this trade would only reduce the profits of the traders. That is acceptable as they have grown rich at our expense.
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Sassy
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