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Who destroyed businesses in the USA, it certainly was not liberals

One of the reasons so many companies moved overseas, besides fewer regulation, cheaper nonunion labor overseas was the lopsided trade laws between the USA and other countries. Almost all others countries had higher tarriffs than the USA. These higher overseas tariffs, protected overseas American companies, from competition in the USA. If you moved to China, built a factory, and hired Chinese workers, you are under their advantageous trade wing. At the same time, with American tariffs very low or nonexistent, they could sell back to the USA, cheaper, and further gain market share. Apple is a $trillion company.

Trump messed that up when he wanted to create fair trade; equal tariffs and trade rules for all countries. Either they come down or we go up. Fair can happen many ways. If all countries had the same tariff rates and trade rules, there is less incentive to go overseas, for protectionism, or better selling margins.

Trump is also working on decreasing regulations, which makes staying in the USA more attractive. Trump is not touching higher US labor cost, but rather blue color has seen an increase in wages. Trump plans to make up the labor difference in other ways. If we secure the border and can control immigration, legally, we can have a well planned migrate labor pool, that is all legal and counted and therefore adjustable to the ebb and slow of the business cycles.

One of the reasons only a modest amount of companies appear to be returning to the USA, is building a factory in the US, is met with foot dragging, by all types of zoning and environmental regulation enthusiasts. This can delay building for 10 years or more. Many companies are still in the bureaucratic limbo cycle unable to build just yet.

Trump started to deal with this by proposing streamlining the building rules for infrastructure, so these things can happen faster and therefore cheaper. Instead of being able to ties something up in court for a decade or more, you would have two years to prove your case. Then you needed to get out of the way. This change will also apply to new businesses and businesses coming home, with factories appearing much sooner. In Trump's second term, the numbers of factories will appear like weeds.

The labor needs will be higher, so finishing the border wall to regulate the migrant worker pool will have priority. In the mean time, wages will continue to rise for the America worker, which will reduce the size of the welfare outlay. The national debt and government size, will then need to be addressed. This is second term.

Cheaper than any American could work for and pay the landlord.

It was like $5/day for a fourteen hour day for semiskilled labor when they shipped our jobs over. So about eight workers for what a minimum wage earner made. A small factory's worth. And for six hours more a day too, each.

Unions had exactly zero to do with it.
 
It's neither liberals or conservatives that are to blame for factory outsourcing, for that, you can blame the invention of these:

Where did you get your information which is partially correct and mostly wrong.

As has happened so many times in the past few centuries, the container "evolution" occurred more as a result of political moves such as the Kennedy-Reagan TL tarrif deregulation to minimize Teamsters power.

On top of that, market forces and technology advances initiated major changes in logistical pipelines- the growth of the LTL market with UPS and then FedEx replacing the old Railway Express.

Cap all of this with OPEC, long lines at the gas stations, uncaptured costs in the transportation chain and manufacturing based efficiencies due to CADCAM and computer based accounting systems.

This is a simple and fast answer to a very complex manufacturing, inventory and accounting evolution.
 
Where did you get your information which is partially correct and mostly wrong.

As has happened so many times in the past few centuries, the container "evolution" occurred more as a result of political moves such as the Kennedy-Reagan TL tarrif deregulation to minimize Teamsters power.

On top of that, market forces and technology advances initiated major changes in logistical pipelines- the growth of the LTL market with UPS and then FedEx replacing the old Railway Express.

Cap all of this with OPEC, long lines at the gas stations, uncaptured costs in the transportation chain and manufacturing based efficiencies due to CADCAM and computer based accounting systems.

This is a simple and fast answer to a very complex manufacturing, inventory and accounting evolution.

Deregulation has nothing to do with it. Do you honestly think that US regulations would have prevented the rest of the world from moving to global supply chains?
 
Deregulation has nothing to do with it. Do you honestly think that US regulations would have prevented the rest of the world from moving to global supply chains?

Hell Yes!!!

The US was the world leader in all things as the western world continued to recover from WWII and the realignment of the old colonial world while the USSR continued to economically implode. No other nation was even close in terms of quality products and technological advancements.

Also - I can tell you never figured out or paid a tariff in the pre-PC days when IBM MAPICS and COPICS ruled over the technological world and truckers ruled the roads - check out when the truckers shut down the nation during the 1973 oil crisis - after this, the growing and very threatening power of the teamsters led to dereg and the end of tariffs around 1980. By the way, the Democrats are responsible for dereg which killed the teamsters.
 
Hell Yes!!!

The US was the world leader in all things as the western world continued to recover from WWII and the realignment of the old colonial world while the USSR continued to economically implode. No other nation was even close in terms of quality products and technological advancements.

Also - I can tell you never figured out or paid a tariff in the pre-PC days when IBM MAPICS and COPICS ruled over the technological world and truckers ruled the roads - check out when the truckers shut down the nation during the 1973 oil crisis - after this, the growing and very threatening power of the teamsters led to dereg and the end of tariffs around 1980. By the way, the Democrats are responsible for dereg which killed the teamsters.

This is utter nonsense. You are right that in the wake of WW2, we led the world in manufacturing and technology, but that lead started to evaporate by the 70s. The opening of China and it moving to "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"- their term for economic liberalization - made it inevitable that they would become the world's factory, moreover, that they would eventually lead the world in terms of innovation (which is quickly coming to fruition). By the early 70s, Japan was already producing better products in many areas than we were. Even to this day, if you want a vehicle that will last you half your life or more, you buy a Toyota - particularly a Toyota Tacoma.
 
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