2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Wacky county vote count numbers in Pennsylvannia. See for yourself. [View all]Red Oak
(699 posts)I certainly agree that all job environments change. For instance, I understand that 400 people can now produce the steel that it took 4000 to do in the 70s. So many of those steel jobs are gone to automation.
That said, if there were a level playing field and if we forced the issue of balance of trade, many good jobs would return.
If we played by the same rules China does - sure, sell your product here, but you must bring your factory here and we own 50% of it (you must have a domestic American partner), we also want your technology transfer.tAfter you meet these criteria Then you can sell your Chinese products in the US market. Same rules here as there. The jobs would come back here. In droves.
The US has been played as the sucker for decades with our companies all hoping to sell to the billions of people in China.
Ask Facebook how that is working for them, or Uber or, Home Depot or Best Buy or Google or Ebay or HP or IBM or Dell, ad nauseum.
It is time for the Democratic party, and US CEOs, to support American workers and stop taking direction from Wall Street bankers and think tank economists.
If the current batch of politicians in the Democratic party won't get the job done, then it's time for a new batch of politicians that aren't just a bunch of Wall Street Corporate suck ups.
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