The Problem of Trying to Sell MADE IN USA

[Kittitas George]

The biggest reason for buying Chinese and other imported junk is Americans are now working for Chinese or 3rd world wages. American industry and the Chamber of Commerce refuse to acknowledge that the American worker is their customer. Union workers are about 10% of the work force, but get 99% of the blame. The GDP is about 80% retail sales, Bill Gates can buy more expensive pants than me, but he can't and doesn't buy more than US. We the worker drive the economy. If 'trickle down' works, why and how do the top 1% have so much.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

The biggest reason for buying Chinese and other imported junk is Americans are now working for Chinese or 3rd world wages. American industry and the Chamber of Commerce refuse to acknowledge that the American worker is their customer. Union workers are about 10% of the work force, but get 99% of the blame. The GDP is about 80% retail sales, Bill Gates can buy more expensive pants than me, but he can't and doesn't buy more than US. We the worker drive the economy. If 'trickle down' works, why and how do the top 1% have so much.

Do you think we should take the top 1% er’s money and redistribute it to everybody else thats not as fortunate as they are?

 

[Kittitas George]

Do you think we should take the top 1% er’s money and redistribute it to everybody else thats not as fortunate as they are?

That is not a solution. The economy needs an adjustment so it works better for everyone. The economy isn't working for the majority. Poverty has in creased 16% since the mid 1960's. We don't have 16% more lazy people. Employment that once payed 'family wages' have not increased or kept up with inflation. Retail wages used to support a family. Forty hours of "minimum wage" won't pay the rent anywhere in the country. We all subsidize Wal-Mart, America's biggest employer. Many Wal-Mart workers qualify for 'food Stamps' and "Medicaid'. While the Wal-Mart family (just 5 people) has accumulated more money than 40% of the population. The "economic opportunity" needs to be increased, we don't need to take anything away for redistribution. American investors need to invest in American workers and the American economy.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

That is not a solution. The economy needs an adjustment so it works better for everyone. The economy isn't working for the majority. Poverty has in creased 16% since the mid 1960's. We don't have 16% more lazy people. Employment that once payed 'family wages' have not increased or kept up with inflation. Retail wages used to support a family. Forty hours of "minimum wage" won't pay the rent anywhere in the country. We all subsidize Wal-Mart, America's biggest employer. Many Wal-Mart workers qualify for 'food Stamps' and "Medicaid'. While the Wal-Mart family (just 5 people) has accumulated more money than 40% of the population. The "economic opportunity" needs to be increased, we don't need to take anything away for redistribution. American investors need to invest in American workers and the American economy.

Minimum wage was never meant to support a family. And since walmart is the biggest employer shouldnt we reward their leadership (or just let them do it themselves) instead of taking away from them? Would that make companies want to grow and employ more to get penalized for doing so?

 

[Kittitas George]

Minimum wage was never meant to support a family. And since walmart is the biggest employer shouldnt we reward their leadership (or just let them do it themselves) instead of taking away from them? Would that make companies want to grow and employ more to get penalized for doing so?

Henry Ford, the car guy, his attitude was that 'if the worker couldn't afford the product, he was under paid'. That doesn't mean the Boeing worker should be able to buy a plane, but should be able to afford a ride. Jim Senegal former CEO and and an owner has a ton of money, and pays his workers livable wages and has very little turn over in employees. When the hell is enough enough? A Wal-mart employee can not afford what I sell ( a basic food commodity) but a Costco employee can. Improve the markets base, everybody will do better, even Sam Wall. Wal-Mart is the biggest retailer and importer of Chinese crap. They have put American companies big and small that supply them out of business (manufactured the product, the hell with patents, in China) and the government subsidizes them. Another "self made man" with a subsidy. Honor work, not money !!

 

[davidjoe]

Wal-Mart is the biggest retailer and importer of Chinese crap. They have put American companies big and small that supply them out of business (manufactured the product, the hell with patents, in China) and the government subsidizes them. Another "self made man" with a subsidy. Honor work, not money !!

Your beef should be with American companies and the buying public. It is American companies themselves, from small to large, that contact factories in China, requesting that products be made to a specification. They place these orders specifically to import and resell those products here, and everywhere else in the world they distribute them.

I actually cannot recall seeing a single appliance or clothing item for sale in Wal-Mart or Target with a Chinese company’s label on it, trying to compete against our own, yet I am positive “Mr. Coffee” makers and the like are retailed in China, with the profits in dollars returning here, after being made there, for dimes.

Japanese products competing here, absolutely. Honda, Sony, Nikon, Samsung, Cannon, Toyota. South Korean companies send more here; Chinese names here, no not really, especially for its size, I can think of one beer and the world’s best soy sauce. If we are being honest, they are about as “hands off” as could be.

 

[Fuj]

Ever think what would happen if Wall Street was manuvered
to be run in "AI" mode ?? Now take company "B" that's losing
it's shirt, and Wall Street devalues it. It's shares plumet, then
it's shares bought up cheap by speculators. Company "B"
lay's off most of it's staff, sells off it's holdings, in order to
find a way to compete and survive. Well the "answer" is to get
rid of everything except one office in a Manhatten office building.
In this case everything was shipped to Viet Nam because China
was too expensive to set manufacturing roots.......Wall Street
goes wild, shares climb to heights never seen in "B's history.

This scenario was all manipulated in the true spirit of American
capitalists and brought to you by Berkshire Hathaway.