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22 Stats That Show How The Emerging One World Economy Is Absolutely Killing American Workers

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For a lighter side to the main article, The Onion made a valid point the other day: Nation's Lower Class At Least Grateful It Not Part Of Nation's Middle Class

"CHAPEL HILL, NC—A survey released Wednesday by researchers at the University of North Carolina found that despite the many challenges they face, the nation's lowest-income individuals are nonetheless thankful they don't have to endure the unique hardships of the nation's long-suffering middle class.

 

According to the report, the 46 million Americans who fall below the federal poverty line, though struggling mightily, are at least glad they don't have to live up to some rapidly vanishing American dream of advancing in their career, making more money, and improving their lifestyle, the way their middle-income counterparts do."  Keep reading >

22 Stats That Show How The Emerging One World Economy Is Absolutely Killing American Workers

For decades our politicians have promised us that the "free trade" agenda would bring us greater prosperity than ever before. They insisted that merging our economy into the emerging one world economy would cause millions upon millions of new jobs to be added to the U.S. economy.  Unfortunately, it was all a giant lie. 

Trading with other countries is not a bad thing as long as the level of trade is fairly equal on both sides. When trade becomes very unequal, the consequences can be absolutely catastrophic. Since 1975, the United States has bought more than 8 trillion dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they have bought from us. We are the only economy on earth that could have had 8 trillion dollars drained out of it and still be standing.  Instead of leaving the country, those 8 trillion dollars could have gone to U.S. businesses and U.S. workers. If we could go back and have a "do over," how much more prosperous would we be today if we had kept that 8 trillion dollars inside the country?

But instead of pursuing a balanced trade philosophy, our politicians were so enamored with the emerging one world economy that they threw all caution to the wind.

So we have lost tens of thousands of businesses, millions of jobs and trillions of dollars of our national wealth.

And this emerging one world economy is absolutely killing American workers.  It lumps them into a global labor pool with workers in other countries where it is legal to pay slave labor wages.

Just think of it this way. Imagine that you are a giant corporation that makes "widgets".  You can make them in the United States, but you would have to pay your workers about $10 an hour, provide them with a whole bunch of benefits, pay very high taxes, and comply with a dizzying array of laws, rules and regulations.

Or, you could set up shop on the other side of the world where you could pay your workers a dollar an hour.  Those workers would receive no benefits and you would have to deal with very little red tape.

Which would you choose?

The "giant sucking sound" that Ross Perot once warned us about has become a reality.  Big employers are competing with one another to see who can outsource jobs the fastest, and American workers are the big losers in all of this.

As I wrote about the other day, right now there are some American workers that are actually personally training their replacements from overseas how to do their jobs.

If nothing is done about this, jobs are going to continue to pour out of high wage countries such as the United States and into low wage countries on the other side of the globe, and big corporations are going to keep laughing all the way to the bank as unemployment in America gets even worse.

The following are 22 stats that show how the emerging one world economy is absolutely killing American workers....

#1 One professor has estimated that cutting the U.S. trade deficit in half would create 5 million more jobs in the United States.

#2 The United States has a trade imbalance that is more than 7 times larger than any other nation on earth has.

#3 Overall, the United States has run a trade deficit of more than 8 trillion dollars with the rest of the globe since 1975.  That 8 trillion dollars could have gone to support U.S. businesses and pay the wages of U.S. workers.  Federal, state and local taxes would have been paid on that 8 trillion dollars if it had stayed in the United States.  This is one reason why our national debt is getting ready to cross the 16 trillion dollar mark.

#4 When NAFTA was passed in 1993, the United States had a trade surplus with Mexico of 1.6 billion dollars.  In 2010, we had a trade deficit with Mexico of 61.6 billion dollars.

#5 In 2001, American consumers spent 102 billion dollars on products made in China.  In 2011, American consumers spent 399 billion dollars on products made in China.

#6 The Chinese undervalue their currency by about 40 percent in order to gain a critical advantage over foreign competitors.  This means that many Chinese companies are able to absolutely thrive while their competition in the United States goes out of business.  The following is from a recent Fox News article....

To keep Chinese products artificially inexpensive on US store shelves, Beijing undervalues the yuan by 40 percent. It pirates US technology, subsidizes exports and imposes high tariffs on imports.

#7 According to the New York Times, a Jeep Grand Cherokee that costs $27,490 in the United States costs about $85,000 in China thanks to all the tariffs.

#8 The U.S. trade deficit with China during 2011 was 295.4 billion dollars.  That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world.

#9 Back in 1985, our trade deficit with China was only about 6 million dollars (million with an "m") for theentire year.

#10 U.S. consumers spend about 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that Chinese consumers spend on goods and services from the United States.

#11 The United States has actually lost an average of about 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

#12 According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing about half a million jobs to China every single year.

#13 The United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.

#14 During 2010 alone, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities closed their doors in America every single day.

#15 Since the auto industry bailout, approximately 70 percent of all GM vehicles have been built outside the United States.

#16 As I have written about previously, 95 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were middle class jobs.

#17 According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.

#18 The percentage of working age Americans that are employed right now is actually smaller than it was at the end of the last recession.

#19 The average duration of unemployment in the United States is nearly three times as long as it was back in the year 2000.

#20 Due in part to the globalization of the labor pool, only about 24 percent of all jobs in the United States are "good jobs" at this point.

#21 Without enough good jobs, more Americans than ever before are falling into poverty.  Today, more than 100 million Americans are on welfare.

#22 In recent years the U.S. economy has embraced "free trade" and the emerging one world economy like never before. Instead of increasing the number of jobs in our economy, it has resulted in the worst stretch of job creation in the United States in modern history....

If any single number captures the state of the American economy over the last decade, it is zero. That was the net gain in jobs between 1999 and 2009—nada, nil, zip. By painful contrast, from the 1940s through the 1990s, recessions came and went, but no decade ended without at least a 20 percent increase in the number of jobs.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

You can get a really good idea of how nightmarish the manufacturing job losses have been in the United States over the past 40 years by checking out this map right here.

And if everything posted above was not bad enough, some U.S. companies even find themselves competing with slave labor here in the United States.

Seriously.

Prison labor is absolutely destroying some businesses here in America.  The following comes from a recent CNN article....

Unicor is a government-run enterprise that employs over 13,000 inmates -- at wages as low as 23 cents an hour -- to make goods for the Pentagon and other federal agencies.

 

With some exceptions, Unicor gets first dibs on federal contracts over private companies as long as its bid is comparable in price, quantity and delivery. In other words: If Unicor wants a contract, it gets it.

One company that tries to compete with Unicor has been forced to lay off 150 people over the years because they lose so many contracts to them....

Wilson has been competing with Unicor for 20 years. He's an executive at American Apparel Inc., an Alabama company that makes military uniforms. (It is not affiliated with the international retailer of the same name.) He has gone head-to-head with Unicor on just about every product his company makes -- and said he has laid off 150 people over the years as a result.

 

"We pay employees $9 on average," Wilson said. "They get full medical insurance, 401(k) plans and paid vacation. Yet we're competing against a federal program that doesn't pay any of that."

But this is also the kind of thing that U.S. companies are dealing with when they try to compete with big corporations that are exploiting cheap labor abroad.

If you are spending ten times as much on labor as your competitor is, it is going to be really hard to survive.

That is why it has become so hard to find products that are made in America.

Most of our jobs these days are low paying "service jobs", cushy government jobs or jobs where people push papers around all day.

But those kinds of jobs do not create lasting wealth for a country.

Did you know that there are more tax preparers in the United States than there are police officers and firefighters combined?

Our economy is a giant mirage. We consume way more wealth than we produce, but we are able to keep the party going because we are riding the biggest debt spiral the world has ever seen.

But at some point the debt spiral is going to end and the crash is going to come.

Until then, however, those at the very top are still really enjoying themselves.

For example, one of the latest trends is for rich kids to show off pictures of themselves enjoying their enormous wealth on Instagram.

Something has gone very, very wrong with this country.

So what do you think about all this?  Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below....

 

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Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:48 | 2714901 benslawyer
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Off topic, but good question being asked by many on the internet, but strangely <sarc> not by MSM.  The comment sections of the many blogs on the subject are peppered with "if you are not using your bullets illegally, don't worry about the govt coming at you with theirs".  "Illegal" currently being defined.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:39 | 2714867 FeralSerf
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As that nice Wolfie said to Red Riding Hood: "The better to shoot you with, my dear!"

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 11:06 | 2714156 shovelhead
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Those bullets are for target practice.

Eric Holder has hired hundreds of Los Zetas as Homeland Security Agents and they are notoriously bad marksmen that need practice.

They're much better with 'hands on' enforcement methods, like hanging and dismemberment.

It's hard to get skilled help these days.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 21:56 | 2712978 andrewp111
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Iran, and agencies need to spend FY12 funds before Oct 1.

If there is war with Iran, Iran will activate thousands of sleeper terrorist and Hezbollah forces already in the USA, and there will be absolute havoc. They will use biological weapons on a large scale, even if they aren't able to launch nuclear missiles from Iran's missile base in Venezuela. The USA will be under Martial Law.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 21:26 | 2712912 lolmao500
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#4 When NAFTA was passed in 1993, the United States had a trade surplus with Mexico of 1.6 billion dollars.  In 2010, we had a trade deficit with Mexico of 61.6 billion dollars.

But but but... Clinton! Best president evar!!!

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 21:17 | 2712889 Whoa Dammit
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Protectionism is the only way to bring back the middle class. 

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:09 | 2714320 Vendetta
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Protectionism is only practiced by countries that want a prosperous future... US govt doesn't want that.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 03:36 | 2713417 AnAnonymous
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Protectionism is the only way to bring back the middle class.

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Nope.

Solutions to bring back the middle class:
-find new continents to rob them and build a middle class out of that, 'American' style
-reduce the middle class as the Earth no longer yields enough resources to sustain the always bigger expectations of higher standards of life by the 'American' middle class

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 21:12 | 2712880 URZIZMINE
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Hands on jobs such as prostitution and gun manufacturing are exploding. No worries.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 21:02 | 2712863 Hannibal
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But,...but I thought we were the riches, the best of the best and most powerfull nation in the world. USA..USA..USA #1.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 20:42 | 2712818 lasvegaspersona
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WRONG!!!!

We were not DRAINED OF 8 trillion dollars...think about it....8 trillion is very close to the central bank holdings of foreign central banks treasuries.

We gave them paper and got almost free stuff, the price we paid was giving up our industry. This is EXACTLY what Triffin's dilemma was about!!!!! He ID'ed this problem in the early 1960s. To catch up read FOFOA's several articles that deal with this issue. When our currency ends its reign as reserve currency we will regain our industry at the cost of the huge discount we have been getting on imports....and the world will be a better, fairer place....but we will have to pay (I'd guess 30%) more for our imports.

Understand this single issue and you are more than half way to understanding the global financial crisis!!

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 23:50 | 2713210 Stuck on Zero
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The Yen went up by 80% against the dollar and guess what?  The Japanese will still not permit U.S. manufactured products on their soil.  Currency differences are not the issue.

 

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 20:39 | 2712812 57-71
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The 8 trillion is a bullshit number.

That number represents total trade, and not the net difference between trade without NAFTA, and trade with NAFTA.

So economic geniuses, what is the adjusted difference in 2012 dollars?

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 11:54 | 2714267 midtowng
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First of all, NAFTA is only one of the free trade agreements.

Secondly, with the WTO, almost every country has a free trade agreement these days

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 20:38 | 2712808 kalasend
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With all these depressing debt talks I gotta ask one question: wouldn't it be a great thing if we buy stuff from trade partners, then have them recycle the dollars for our fancy toilet papers and eventually default on them? I've always thought that's the path the US is leading down to.

What's the problem here? I mean it's not like anybody in the world can take his gun to the US for a payback. Nobody can realistically go to war with the US in hope to win his money back. So why not? Just borrow and borrow and borrow until we can't then boom, sorry, we can't pay them back. Let's reset.

And then perhaps a decade or two where we would hire some diplomatic dickheads to repair the relationships with the creditors and we'll be good to go again. If not just wait for this generation to die. People don't get a lot of memory.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 21:35 | 2712932 Kali
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As much debt as we owe to ferriners, who is it that we owe the most debt to?  Banksters don't go away, they are taking your shit now.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 11:39 | 2714233 LMAOLORI
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Right on Kali the majority of our debt is domestically held the largest holder is Social Security 

The TRUTH About Who Really Owns All Of America's Debt

http://www.businessinsider.com/who-owns-us-debt-2011-7?op=1

 

 

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 20:11 | 2712734 Clever Name
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Unfortunately I was taught that 'Free trade' was good for all in kollege, and it made sense to me then. In some strange way it still does, until all of our jobs go down the tubes. My mother voted for Perot back then and I thought she was nuts.

If the ptb really wanted this to change, they could do it but apparently they dont. Would we really even stand a chance in a trade war now? Methinks not.

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:12 | 2714336 Vendetta
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the free trade mouth pieces in media were spreading the stories in the 90's and early 2000's that as these foreign countries gained prosperity, they would buy more products from the US.  Only the former happened, the latter was the lie.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 20:07 | 2712720 ebworthen
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Where are the Ghost's of the French Nobility when you need them?

Those who fail to learn from history...

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 20:09 | 2712725 knukles
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...turn into french peasants?

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 22:58 | 2713121 OpenThePodBayDoorHAL
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People misunderstand the French Revolution, they have pictures in their heads of peasants revolting with pitchforks etc. Actually it was the lesser nobility & the small landholders that brought about the change, the top 5%. They woke up and saw the threat to their livelihood from corruption, lavish lifestyles of the .001%, excess taxation, and excess spending on foreign wars. 60% of the aristocracy could not even afford the basics of aristocracy: a dog, a horse, and a sword. These are the people who rose up and demanded a change. Only later did the peasants really get involved, during the excesses of the revolution, Reign of Terror etc. The guillotine was actually used by far on peasants, turned in by other peasants to the Committee for Public Safety, some 50,000 or so.

So in the US? Perhaps when the top 5% are sick of seeing their kids with a lower standard of living, or seeing their kids struggling to find work, their own 401Ks inadequate, health costs skyrocketing...all to support all the American myths surrounding the .001% and the myth of social mobility in the US. CEOs who make 275 times what the shop floor worker makes. Corzines and Lie-borers walking free to start hedge funds while your kid pours lattes for a living.

Squeezing the bottom 90% will not make it happen, they can always be repressed or ignored. We need the 95th, 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th percentile to awake from their mythic trance, look around them with eyes wide open for once, and then push for change.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 12:14 | 2714341 Vendetta
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when the bond holders got their clocks cleaned... then they wanted behead John Law.  History rhymes ... just waiting for the bond holders to get their clocks cleaned again.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 03:43 | 2713423 AnAnonymous
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the lesser nobility & the small landholders that brought about the change, the top 5%.
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Nope. It was a middle class revolution, set up by the burgeoning middle class.

The fact is that they saw the 'American' revolution as an opportunity to increase their business but did not take into account that well, US citizen nature is eternal, as they did not know of it yet.

'Americans' in the US renegated on their debt and crushed many of the burgeoning middle class businesses. Worse, 'Americans' in the US also changed the deal in the colonial trade, which was the priviledged ground of the french middle class.

The Nobles involved in the events are often instrumentalized by 'Americans' in order to paint 'Americans' in a different colour.

But there are substantial differences between a noble like de La Fayette and your typical 'American'.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 01:01 | 2713297 Contemplate_
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as long as the proles have food and entertainment, we can never expect them to initiate change.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:36 | 2714855 FeralSerf
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Modern advertizing technology has proven that it's not necessary to give them anything but the cheapest and foulest food or entertainment either.

Instead of "Let them eat cake", our new motto is: "Pizza! Pizza!" (with a 64 oz Pepsi, thank you).

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 23:22 | 2713160 knukles
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Most CEO's make more than their companies pay in taxes.
Go figure.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 19:59 | 2712699 BrotherBroGo1
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Great synopsis of our current state of affairs.  Maybe we have not become enough of an underdog yet (i.e it is not desperate enough)?  You would think that with all the US ingenuity we would figure a way to compete in the global marketplace.  Truth is we have.....at least some of us...not sure what the rest of you are waiting on.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 19:47 | 2712669 Racer
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"Houston, we have a problem"

Houston STFU...  al is wel  here in USLLL.. la la land, 


Thu, 08/16/2012 - 20:04 | 2712605 tip e. canoe
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memo to Ilene, Michael & Houston:   ah, that's the point.

see Exhibit U.K.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 19:16 | 2712595 combatsnoopy
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So is this $8 TRILLION in 1975 dollars or 2008 dollars? 

Being that the country's worth is valued at "$70 trillion" (Wall Street appx value @ $40 trillion) depending on the accounting methods...

 

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 20:11 | 2712733 knukles
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Don't forget to double/as many times as you want to count the rehypothecations :)

New Math for a New Age in the New Normal

Man, are we set or what?

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 10:52 | 2714116 shovelhead
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What?

Are you saying that $1 of collateral against $50 of loans is not a formula for success?

What could go wrong?

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 19:10 | 2712584 SHRAGS
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James Goldsmith Charlie Rose interview November 15 1994

Goldsmith also wrote "The Trap" about this in 1992.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 03:15 | 2713392 Idiocracy
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excellent post.  Goldsmith is/was a real sharp guy.  He saw clear as crystal 20 years into the future.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 18:59 | 2712552 billsykes
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"...would have to deal with very little red tape"

 

Manufacturing in China is tough, the whole I pay them $225 a month thing comes with a lot of fine print and lots of these "*" but they are renegotiated when you are back home. 

Things like slippage, the fact that you have to overstaff*, that you cannot fire or lay anyone off, high defect rate- only caught after you open the box back home, manufacturers selling your molds, etc and so on. Not to mention reputation risk- made in china is like what made in japan was in the '50's.

For the SMB sub $250m manufacturing company its a tough go without really stringent QC/QA and cost controls (many of your own guys white and yellow there on site), can be done but not as easy as picking up the phone.

But really its about the chinese currency manipulation- The guy that owns Paul Revere copper (EST 1801) puts it in writing well, an angle that is not ever raised. 

http://www.reverecopper.com/

 

 

 

 

 

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 18:58 | 2712547 Heroic Couplet
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How are those Bush tax cuts working to create jobs in the US? They aren't. Republicans have shot themselves in the foot. All Congressional Republicans should be out looking for jobs. Show us exactly where the tax cuts have created US jobs. If they can't, they need to be called liars, to their face.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 22:49 | 2713105 drchris
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I really wish the current administration didn't extend the cuts.  That would be the only clear way to see if it is a positive force in the job market against all the negative forces in play.  The fact they the Obama administration did extend the cuts likely means they also believe them to be a positive force on employment.  

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 19:55 | 2712688 roadhazard
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How dare you blaspheme the "JOB CREATORS". Why do you hate AmeriKa.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 18:55 | 2712537 monad
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Match tariffs with all our trading partners.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 23:46 | 2713202 Stuck on Zero
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Our trading partners never apply tariffs. They use 1000s of clever little rules and regulations to prohibit any manufactured imports.  We should do likewise.

 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 03:45 | 2713425 GreatUncle
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The one and only tarriff that works.

Collapse your currency and then through affordability you will not be buying those imports.

Demand does not go away though, cost base restructured maybe somebody on your own soil will make it now as just buying it off the shelf in China is too dear.

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 18:53 | 2712525 Chuck Walla
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Well, Duh. High living standards and central planning don't play well together. Except for the elite and their children. Its the in-breeding that destroys their ability to govern efectively, they go all Saddam and shit.

 

FORWARD SOVIET!

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 18:48 | 2712516 combatsnoopy
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Where are the ron paul spambots?  Oh wait, Ron Paul has no solution for this. 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 06:38 | 2713517 AnAnonymous
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Ron Paul has no solution for this.

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US citizen Ron Paul could hardly wish for a solution as he cant see outsourcing as an issue.

Outsourcing is a natural outcome when one practises Smithian economics.

Smithian economics due to 'American' hegemony now encompasse the whole world.

Outsourcing from county to another county, town to town, state to state has been existed in the US.
It is natural to the exercize of Smithian economics.
No proponent of Smithian economics can see it as a problem.

Paul cant offer solutions to situations he does not consider problems.

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 07:16 | 2713553 Everybodys All ...
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Tariffs are the solution. Lets not make it any more complicated then it needs to be.

Fair Trade...Not Free Trade.    

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 19:14 | 2712591 combatsnoopy
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THis is a legislative problem, exactly how is ending the FR going to solve this? 

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 14:37 | 2714860 combatsnoopy
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So the Ron Paul spambots downvoted me because I said that this is the legislative issue?  Like Ron Paul didn't want to befriend North Korea to take advantage of their concentration camps for slave labor.  Puhleese.

So apparently Ron Paul bots think that the Federal Reserve is going to solve it.   It IS a legislative issue.  "No" means NO, right?   

The only thing Bernanke CAN do is match interest rates with Asia to lose carry trade incentives to invest that way.   

pfft.   You guys have no base and your PR funding hasn't solved anything.  Give up-YOU'RE IN THE WAY.  
In other words, you're not helping.   :o)    Apparently Ron Paul bots like America's trade/investment deficit with the world. 

Thu, 08/16/2012 - 18:43 | 2712508 geno-econ
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Whatever happened to a goal of maintaining a Balanced Economy.  Importers in the 70s started to import textiles in limited quantities, then autos then footwear and then in the 90s big multinationals came out of the closet and outsourced everything possible without regard to future consequences. Politcians are mostly in pockets of big contributors and USA is without direction relying on Global Trade as an idiology sure to benefit America. WRONG!  Only reason collapse has not occurred is huge Deficits and reserve currency status but this game is coming to an end

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