The Reason China Will Beat America

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  1. ronv

    ronv Well-Known Member

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    The Republicans think you should just take on a third job. It's their $15 minimum wage - 3 five dollar an hour jobs.
     
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    I think workers should get a fair wage

    Unions do that

    But companies have to get a fair return for the wages they pay and sometimes unions prevent that

    I want to limit imports from low wage countries and also limit how many dirt poor foreigners enter the labor pool

    Those two changes will raise wages for American workers
     
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    When labor is scarce wages rise

    As for the $2,000 I dont think so
     
  4. ronv

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    I know!
    Let's have Trump build a city in West Texas that can hold a million illegal immigrants. Then they could assemble iPhones. :)

    If these tariffs are working so good, why did Trump remove the ones on steel?
     
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    America has had tariffs since we were a republic

    Were we a marxist nation all these years but didnt know until you discovered it?
     
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    Government forcing business to do what it wants is at least socialist - kind of borders on communist.
     
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    What is more tiring is thinking high paying jobs will return to USA. Why would they, those companies will not be competitive. The capitalist way is to make a product as low cost as possible with high quality.

    AI is here to stay and become more prevalent. Not in our lifetimes but in our kids or grandkids lifetime, AI will replace many more jobs. Just as automation has been doing for 100 yrs already.
    And for those jobs that may leave China due to wages/tariffs/etc, there are many other countries that still have very very low wages. That is where the companies will set up jobs to remain competitive or beat their competition.

    If you want robots to be speaking English, you better get on board with globalisation and not be the one spouting sitting out the future.
    We need to be leaders in globalizing, not sitting on the sidelines protecting our little part of the world.
     
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    LOL. It's you pushing to sit on the sidelines while the world shrinks and works together to bring products to market.
    I didn't sit on the sidelines when I voted Perot.
    You didn't sit on the sidelines when you vote Bush I, but you did succeed and made many jobs leave the country.
     
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    R's were killing unions, why would hard working people who wanted good paying jobs go R?
    Having said that, I also know as how most things go, Unions got to big for their britches and go greedy just as corps or gov'ts do. Or any thing humans get into, for greed is a part of humanity.
     
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    Maybe so

    As long as they are all men unaccompanied by their family

    Let them go home on the weekends
     
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    The unions were killing themselves

    Whenever workers were not forced by law to join the union they declined to do so

    And in states like michigan were workers had to join the union the companies were forced put of business

    The free market for labor is a better abritrator of wages
     
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    You voted for perot

    BUt after dropping out and then getting back in he had no realistic chance to win

    So you did throw away your vote
     
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    Business does not have to manufacture in America

    But imported items will carry the tariff
     
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    I dont object to AI or less advanced robots

    But why you prefer those robots be built in china and working china is a mystery to me

    You are surrendering the American lead in technology to our greatest enemy
     
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    Socialist.
     
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    Says the guy cheering tariffs. LOL!
     
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    Wow. How sexist. Only men allowed to work.
     
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    And your vote threw American workers and middle class away.
     
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    I have spent time in China. The place is a mess.
     
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    Great idea. Let's fund research into AI and alternative energy and make it like a "moon shot". Let's join the race that other countries are already in and lead.

    A good leader could get all of America to get behind it. It would attract talent in these fields and create jobs. Our country could lead again. And as far as jobs, the democrats would be all for an infrastructure bill that didn't have a poison pill in it. Repubs are not playing in good faith at all. It's repugnant.
     
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    Were the Founding Fathers socialists?

    No

    BUt they had tariffs
     
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    Men cant get pregnant and drop anchor babies at the public hospital
     
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    And now you refuse to bring those jobs back

    You are anti trump which is just as partisan as being pro trump

    If a democrat were trying to bring jobs back to America you would be cheering them on
     
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    The founding fathers used tariffs to protect business.
    What you are proposing is forcing American companies to move back here and lose money.
    That is gov't. trying to control business not protect it.
    Socialist.
     
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    Its the same thing

    Lowering tariffs removed protection for US workers and forced companies go to china

    Raising tariffs brings jobs back to America
     

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