"i am so sick and tired of everything i see in the stores saying "Made in China""
Blame that on the US's totally insane trade laws and a government run by the highest payer We can't build and sell a car in Japan but the reverse is true. Why is that? The Japanese understand that they need to keep their people employed and paying taxes so they have very restrictive trade policies that are in their favor. The Chinese are even worse, tariffs on US manufactured goods in China are astronomical. A US manufactured $30K car here costs $80K in China. Sure, we have some tariffs in place that make it economical for foreign manufacturers to build cars in the US (in non-union States) but that's the only industry you see this in. When anybody ever talks about evening these trade imbalances the Wall Street types start descending like flying monky's out of Oz screaming FREE MARKET, FREE MARKET! You can't impact our bottom line! This is Un-American! This has been going on for so long that the US no longer has a manufacturing base to speak of. In electronics, there are no facilities left for mass production of CPU chips or LED displays for example. I remember watching some news show not to long ago that had a segment on TV's made in the USA. It turned out to be some enterprising guy that bought what were basically TV kits from overseas and then paid a bunch of minimum wage employees in Detroit to screw them together. The TV's were stuffed into boxes with a big American flag printed on it with "Assembled in USA" boldly printed across the bottom. I bet the boxes were printed in China. Here's a thought. Require that the manufactured goods sold by US big box retailers, that just 1% be manufactured (not assembled) in the USA. See how well that would go over in Congress. ST On Monday, February 11, 2013 11:31:44 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > In a message dated 2/11/2013 9:48:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] <javascript:> writes: > > The Berry laws govern where stuff has to be produced for the military. > Most items have to be produced in the US. If they weren't, would we be > able to get our uniforms and boots from China when we are at war with them? > > i am so sick and tired of everything i see in the stores saying "Made in > China" > > Chris > -- -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R/C Tank Combat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
