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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: American Spirit who wrote (1005)2/8/2004 10:28:43 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
AMerican spirit, I do not see those disappeared jobs as staying gone for long. New jobs get created as the old jobs fade away.
US workers are indeed spoiled.
However, so is US management, who drive customers overseas to manufacturers who are accustomed to work hard to earn sales.
So management as well as workers need to get leaner. There is no place for fat management or fat worker wages if we are going to have free trade.

Free trade = zero duty. The only barrier to entry is freight and quality. Efficient ocean container ships, like Evergreen, and efficient big box retailers like Sams and Wallmart and Costco cut the freight.

Low wages in many countries mean that the worker can spend a lot more time on making an item with care. US workers depend on automation to stop the high wages from impacting the unit cost. Give automation to a Chinese worker and they get high speed production and low unit cost of wages and products approach the cost of raw materials.
Look at the flood of cheap computers etc. from China etc.

sadly, this is coming to an end. Copper is going up dramatically, biz.yahoo.com

That will make all electrical goods go up.

That is the feedback making our $$ fall and their labor go up in price.

Bill
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