Our blue collar jobs have stagnated since we’ve been off-shoring manufacturing to China.
The poor in the US were getting poorer. Not everyone has the ability to transition into a thinking job and we need a balanced economy for these people.
Healthcare for you fellow citizens? So controversial. Billions of dollars for war and killing others? Well that's ok then, let's spend that money no questions asked.
You guys are at competition so much with each other that you create scary fake bogeymen (like the chinese) to distract that you're really fighting yourselves.
The whole world isn't always a competition to win. I'd rather cooperate and we can all have a win/win instead of a win/lose.
You're talking about the subsidies for electric cars, right?
I think my point is simple and clear. If you choose to help the poor at your own expense, it is charity. If you want to help the poor at my expense, it is extortion. People don't mind the first. They mind very much the second.
That's it. That is the entirety of my point. There are no hidden layers to peel back. No need to downvote me for being against electric cars. I own one myself.
Edit: Oh sorry, I realized you might be referring to helping the poor banks during the 2008 financial crisis. Well, I don't want to pay for that either.
Health insurance, to keep that example rolling, has nothing to do with charity. It has all to do with the pooling of risks.
Unfortunately, I see no realistic way to bring back the kind of manufacturing jobs in the same numbers we had in the 50s-70s. And nobody wants to work them anyway, a family friend runs a small company making material handling equipment, and he is always short of assemblers. At one point he was starting assemblers higher than welders, and still struggled. We're fighting too many years of telling kids to avoid the trades and go to college. I can't find the link, but NPR recently ran a story about innovative schools that are starting maker spaces. All schools used to have that, it was called shop class.
These moves from the trump administration seem to me like closing the gate after the horses have already bolted, and stand to harm what manufacturing jobs we have left as well as pissing off our allies.
Especially your point about automation. Now imagine a world where the US can make things again at a cost competitive rate due to automation. Ok, now look at how those goods would be taxed overseas...
We still would have an export problem due to other country’s protectionist tariffs.
The point of the trade negotiations is to get better terms for US exports. This is critical as we come to a turning point in manufacturing.
I also agree with your analysis of the current situation, I just don’t believe the current situation will be as it is for long.
It makes so much sense when you say it like that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/trade...
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10-23/local/me-683_1_trade-...
If you don't remember, this was supposed to boost the economy and we would replace all the blue collar jobs with high paying service industry jobs.
The jobs went away but I didn't see any new jobs being created in north GA or western NC.
But, and this is a big but, I also want to be able to sell to China’s growing middle and upper class.
That’s what this is about.
Please be specific.