Utter non-sense? lmao...i quit taking your post seriously when you made the 1950's comparison to modern day manufacturing and being "better off".
Cheap foreign junk...as opposed to the amazing quality of the stuff produced here? Please...you know what the #1 complaint for consumers looking to buy an american made car was for the last 30 years? Cheap, poor quality interior components.
Look, I'm all for bringing jobs to my country, when our country is doing better, even insignificantly, my quality of life increases. At no time would i PREFER, as a citizen, that work and money be sent to another country, but if you deny that our governing regulations, taxations and over bearing stresses they put on companies doesn't send this work else where you're a fool. And if you think the quality of products is some how going to miraculously increase by being produced here, you're not seeing reality. $12/hour laborers in U.S. manufacturing plants = $2/day laborers in overseas manufacturing plants. QC would remain the same or lower in most cases.
I shouldn't take anything serious that is corporate pr parroted by someone I don't know, but I do because our nation has been taken over by corporations that are hell bent on destroying it, and it's going to take everyone, all 300 million of us to stop them. And I care..
And yes, most consumer products these days come from third world nations, and are junk compared to stuff made here. Many of these foreign cars have been made right here in the USA for decades, or in high wage nations like Germany. The most unsafe, poorest quality cars in the world are currently made in China. Virtually everything made in first world nations where components aren't sourced from the cheapest of the cheap, and workers aren't worked to death, is of higher quality. I don't know where you could have picked up this idea that anything made in a third world factory is somehow better than anything made here. There used to be a time where the made in the USA label meant it was the best of the best. Using American cars as an example that nothing made in America can be made well, is not only ridiculous, it's insulting. American cars went through a period where they made a lot of junk, and who was to blame for that? Well it's the executive class that nickel and dimed everything in the pursuit of making the highest profit margins possible. Short sighted management who only seek out the highest short term profits, even if it costs the company in the long run is a reality of the modern American corporation. Yet these executives don't receive 1/10 of 1% the hatred, demonization, and vitriol hurled at them that unions do, even though many of these CEO's are silver spoon elitists that make millions off ruining companies, who have never got their fingernails dirty once in their lives. Why aren't they "lazy, stupid, greedy bums with a sense of entitlement?".
As far as regulations and taxes go, it's nuts to think that somehow business shouldn't be regulated or taxed. Do you want to return to the Gilded age? We saw how that turned out for folks, there's damn good reasons why we have rules in place and taxes. What many people want basically is corporate anarchy, just allow them to do whatever the hell they want, and pay no taxes, all while receiving the benefits off of doing business and living here. Corporations have proven they cannot be trusted, regulations, which are basically laws that businesses have to abide by are necessary, and many companies still thrive here under them. It's just the mammoth corporate interests which want to do away with them so they can fulfill their endless greed. People have to live under laws and rules, it's insane to say that corporations shouldn't have to. And I know they spend a lot of money every year trying to convince people that our relatively weak regulations are such a huge "burden", even as they rake in record profits every quarter..
And yes I think products made here would be better quality than a third world sweatshop, thanks to our regulations for one. And I cannot think of one product that had its quality go up after moving the factory to China, Mexico, Guatemala, or Bangladesh. In fact, I know of many products whose quality went into the gutter after sending the jobs elsewhere. Their retail prices didn't budge, quality went down.. So who benefitted? Not you or me, not the people who lost their jobs, only the executives of these companies gained from this race to the bottom. Why would anyone want to continue down this destructive path?
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Sorry to bring this back up so late, but I'm just getting back online after buying a new Mac after my windows based pc succumbed to a nasty computer virus..