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In a sea of coal-black gloom, Mexico looks bright
And why wouldn’t Mexico’s manufacturing sector be booming, with all the US companies laying off US workers and relocating there and China. It is the Republican way of supporting big business and fighting organized US labor. A 2 for 1 if you’re a voting Republican!
Mr. Haws: Its the Democrat way of supporting environmentalism, high taxes and stringent regulations that’s running these companies overseas and across the border in droves. And, that is a 3 for 1 if you’re voting Democrat.
Mr. Norton, as usual you are slanting the views of the political parties. The Republicans, traditionally have always supported the business sector and those of wealth and borrowing money to do so. On the other side the Democrats traditionally have always supported the workers and social programs and believe in paying for them thru taxes instead of borrowing money when possible. FYI, to quote a famous author, “there is no such thing as a free lunch”. You pay for it now with taxes (democrats) or you pay for it later plus interest (republicans).
Mister’s Haws and Norton, you both just slay me! You are both so locked into your narrow political worldview, neither of you is capable of having a reasonable discussion of the issues involved with the economic and other factors involved with the movement of jobs by global companies who have no loyalty to any particular country. I would suggest an Economics 101 course for you both.
Simple solution guys, stop the political talk and look before your buy. If it’s not made here don’t buy it. You would be surprised how ez this is to do. Same for the Railroads. Last months article in trains about rail being imported from Japan for use by UP. Shame on you. Some of your best customers are American steel manufacturers and there thank you is you buy rail from overseas. Its up to us to change things , not the politicians !
Mr. Jeffries, I don’t know how old you are, Bur POTUS Nixon, who was a Republican, opened the door for US companies to expand into China, thus starting the movement by businesses to export their mfg into China, which in turn created big profits for them with the cheap Chinese labor, while decreasing the living wage jobs in the US. Hind site is always 20/20. You can put any spin on it you want, but it always boils down to money and gets the most. Labor or Management.
I’m not going to play the ‘blame game’! Neither party has done the citizens of this country ‘due justice’, that’s one reason ‘non-establishment’ candidates are getting so much support ! A majority of the people in the USA are just plain ‘pis— off’ !!!
Railroad Retirement Fund impact
Prime example here !! D.C. is just ONE BIG broken record !!!
Many of the comments seemed to drift toward the relative merits of saving money by shifting production overseas vs. ‘Buy American’… Unfortunately, it is my sad experience that buying ‘American’ made products has left me with such inferior quality merchandise that it had to be returned to the store (e.g. lawn mowers, kitchen appliances, etc.). I am very wary of stuff ‘Made in the U.S.A’. Which is not to say other countries don’t have issues with quality control. If U.S. companies were diligent in quality control with the products they produce (no parts missing, no obviously inferior components), the railroads would have more domestic good quality cargo to haul.
It wasn’t that long ago that Ford was actually touting that their cars were ‘almost’ as good as Toyota’s
Mr. Taggart
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What you say doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me !!
You said: " my sad experience that buying ‘American’ made products has left me with such inferior quality merchandise " also saying " I am very wary of stuff ’ Made in the U.S.A. ’ "
Then you make even less sense by saying: " Which is not to say other countries don’t have issues with quality control " , huh ?
I would suggest that any manufacturer (foreign or domestic) that continually makes an inferior product, will not receive many orders in the months or years to come, and will eventually ’ close-up shop '!
Wouldn’t there be a trade-off, with the railroads hauling MORE " domestic good quality cargo " and LESS almost as good quality, (lower priced) imported (by container) products from our global competitors !
Good ’ food for thought ’ I guess !!