Foreign Trade Policy

Originally Posted by TheSpyder

The main problem is China not fairly pegging their currency, along with them subsudising their manufacturers. They sell some of their products less than people here can source the raw materials. It's not even close to a fair battle field. Unions are far below our political landscape that encourages these unfair rules with retail lobbyist spending millions to keep things that way.

We made Columbia a free trade partner to help combat the drugs they import. How's that going? It's never ending. And as retailers push these off shore manufacturers to move into new, lower labor cost countries, they get the rules changed to suite them. We've turned a blind eye to all of this and people here lose decent jobs ony to work at McDonalds or Walmart.

As long as foreign workers can make the same product
overseas by requiring less wages, its a reoccurring problem.
China's true subsidizing will eventually catch up with them
as it has in Venezuela with oil. I dont know enough about
the Columbia problem. So I will defer to your take.

We live very well here. Workers here live very well compared
to other countries. The problem will not be as acute if we
can get our economy back on track. Sending crappy jobs out
and keeping jobs that require a higher level of skill was the rule
for a number of years. We also still have a heck of a lot of jobs
that are not exportable that are not being filled. IN this part
of the country anyway. (Master electricians, plumbers, etc..
apprentice jobs are in the paper all the time, although fewer
right now) Not everyone must go to college. We still need skilled
labor that must be local. People that are experts in tight work
with heavy machinery make lots of money here. People dont
want these jobs, but that may change. Even though these
jobs are not as abundant right now.

[TheSpyder]

Disagree.

More and more high level jobs are moving off shore.

X Ray analysis is now done with Doctors in India via the internet just as an example and there are many high profile jobs like accounting, taxes, law, science positions that are being farmed out...not to mention everyones favorite...customer service.

Go to any Southern - Midwest City and the amount of empty factories idle is an epidemic. Sure there are some jobs that have to stay, but look at a list of job opportunities for college grads 20 years ago and many of these are leaving. Yes, there are many technical jobs, but to say the crappy jobs are going is not correct

Originally Posted by pgardn

As long as foreign workers can make the same product
overseas by requiring less wages, its a reoccurring problem.
China's true subsidizing will eventually catch up with them
as it has in Venezuela with oil. I dont know enough about
the Columbia problem. So I will defer to your take.

We live very well here. Workers here live very well compared
to other countries. The problem will not be as acute if we
can get our economy back on track. Sending crappy jobs out
and keeping jobs that require a higher level of skill was the rule
for a number of years. We also still have a heck of a lot of jobs
that are not exportable that are not being filled. IN this part
of the country anyway. (Master electricians, plumbers, etc..
apprentice jobs are in the paper all the time, although fewer
right now) Not everyone must go to college. We still need skilled
labor that must be local. People that are experts in tight work
with heavy machinery make lots of money here. People dont
want these jobs, but that may change. Even though these
jobs are not as abundant right now.