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Post by jeffolie on Jul 29, 2011 9:16:23 GMT -6
We buy the only American made atheletic, casual, tennis styled shoes made by: New Balance "...It is the last major athletic shoe factory in America..." We buy American usually over foriegn products. My lovely wife, Olie enjoys New Balance shoes. I recently bought Olie 3 New Balance pairs and 3 pairs of New Balance inserts from www.joesnewbalanceoutlet.com/?s1=Google&s2=Joes&s3=joes+new+balance&gclid=CN6W1ujqpqoCFQcEbAodGmvuVA========================================== America's Last Major Athletic Shoe Manufacturer Says It Can't Survive A Free-Trade Agreement With Vietnam Workers at the New Balance factory in Skowhegan, Maine fear a deluge of cheap shoes if President Obama signs a free-trade agreement with Vietnam and seven other countries. It is the last major athletic shoe factory in America. New Balance pays its workers upward of $10 an hour, plus benefits, while labor costs in China are about $1.50 an hour, and even less in Vietnam. The factory can only compete through protective tariffs. Washington Post's Peter Whoriskey explains: The shoe tariff, by pushing up the cost of importing shoes, means a pair of athletic shoes made in the Norridgewock factory or anywhere else in the United States is more competitive than it otherwise would be, and partially offsets the costs of higher wages paid here. On a pair of shoes that comes into the country valued at $30, for example, a typical 20 percent duty amounts to $6. (In many cases, the markup amounts to 100 percent, meaning those shoes would sell to consumers for $72.) As workers in New England look around at the shuttered textile and shoe mills that still dot many towns, relics of the industrial era, some see the shoe tariff as the least the United States could do for what’s left of the battered industry. In their view, removing the tariff only rewards those companies such as Nike and Adidas that have shut U.S. factories and concentrated their operations elsewhere. Read more: www.businessinsider.com/new-balance-made-in-america-2011-7#ixzz1TVXE1oxl
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Post by waltc on Jul 29, 2011 11:06:56 GMT -6
I could say a lot about rank and file Conservatives and Liberals letting the only American show manufacturer swing in the wind. But suffice to say I'd label both groups as economic terrorists.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 29, 2011 19:35:01 GMT -6
OH so certain industries are protected, those who donate to Socialists, but others are not.
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Post by waltc on Jul 29, 2011 20:28:54 GMT -6
No American industry is safe from Free Trade.
But hey who cares. Can't find anyone from either party who gives a shit. Americans are quite content like fattened cattle to wear their Chinese made clothes, use Chinese made electronics, drive a so-called American cars with most of it's parts made in foreign countries. Use medicine made in China.
If China stopped shipping us goods. We'd be without medicine, clothes, basic essentials to keep the country working.
We are their bitch.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Jul 29, 2011 22:51:34 GMT -6
OH so certain industries are protected, those who donate to Socialists, but others are not. I'd protect all of our manufacturing industries, regardless of whether they donate to "Socialists" or not. We should put a 100% Tariff on ALL manufactured imports, and 200% on everything that comes out of China. Then let's see how many Benedict Arnold American Corporations want to ship their jobs overseas. Again, we don't need to export more. We need to import less.
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Post by jeffolie on Jul 30, 2011 8:08:35 GMT -6
No American industry is safe from Free Trade. But hey who cares. Can't find anyone from either party who gives a shit. Americans are quite content like fattened cattle to wear their Chinese made clothes, use Chinese made electronics, drive a so-called American cars with most of it's parts made in foreign countries. Use medicine made in China. If China stopped shipping us goods. We'd be without medicine, clothes, basic essentials to keep the country working. We are their bitch. I agree. WalMart distributes, sells mostly Chinese lower priced products. WalMart now is the biggest retailer in America. WalMart now has almost as many stores outside of America as it has in America. So, WalMart distributes Chinese lower priced products across the world. Americans ignore the lost of manufacturing jobs. Americans never put keeping manufacturing jobs in America very high in their responses to polls. Americans rarely campaign for politicans that promote keeping jobs in America. Politics matter. Politics can change. Voters shift. Tariffs are not popular now, but there is a small possibility that tariffs and/or trade restrictions may become politically popular down the road. This has happened before when tariffs were popular.
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Post by waltc on Jul 30, 2011 11:52:59 GMT -6
Jeffolie wrote:
Americans ignore the lost of manufacturing jobs. Americans never put keeping manufacturing jobs in America very high in their responses to polls. Americans rarely campaign for politicans that promote keeping jobs in America.
Politics matter.
Politics can change. Voters shift. Tariffs are not popular now, but there is a small possibility that tariffs and/or trade restrictions may become politically popular down the road. This has happened before when tariffs were popular.
Spot on.
Politics do matter. Keeping manufacturing and jobs isn't high on Americans political wishlist. Abortion, Guns, Gay marriage and tax cuts for the rich are the topics Americans really care about. All I need to do is listen to freaks such as Bachman or Romney to see what matters to Americans and it's nothing but crap issues.
I remember when Rep(R) Duncan Hunter was one of the few Conservatives that ripped on Freetrade and Globalization. It got him nothing. Conservatives don't care about jobs or manufacturing. It's like lecturing a pig about nuclear physics.
Teabaggers are even worse. They are numerically challenged and historically illiterate peasants for the most part who know very little about anything and can only spout Ayn Randian/libertarian nostrums.
Democrats are just as bad.
Just look at the Conservative shit heads that blue states Ohio and Michigan elected as governors. These are rust belt states and they voted in people that are ardent globalists who think sending jobs to China and selling state assets to foreign nationals is a good thing.
Maybe when we have 50% unemployment people's attitude towards jobs and manufacturing will change.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Jul 30, 2011 12:46:44 GMT -6
Americans ignore the lost of manufacturing jobs. Americans never put keeping manufacturing jobs in America very high in their responses to polls. Part of problem there is that retention of manufacturing jobs isn't included in may polls. Politicians don't really want to know the answer to that question, so they rarely put it in a poll.
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Post by waltc on Jul 30, 2011 15:18:32 GMT -6
I think it's incumbent upon the voters to make their voices heard on jobs and manufacturing. This passive nonsense of waiting for the politico to bring it doesn't cut it.
Here's the thing, politicians walk into a auditorium and get cheers, not chants of "stop free trade", "stop out-sourcing". There is no follow up with phone calls once in office and regular visits from their district constituents letting them know they are being held accountable.
This is what K Street people do. They get a agreement with the pol and they follow through with phone calls and visits to keep the pol working for them.
We either adopt the methods of Kl Street or we get used to being kicked to the gutter like we do now.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 30, 2011 16:24:51 GMT -6
Jeffolie wrote: Americans ignore the lost of manufacturing jobs. Americans never put keeping manufacturing jobs in America very high in their responses to polls. Americans rarely campaign for politicans that promote keeping jobs in America.
Politics matter.
Politics can change. Voters shift. Tariffs are not popular now, but there is a small possibility that tariffs and/or trade restrictions may become politically popular down the road. This has happened before when tariffs were popular.
Spot on. Politics do matter. Keeping manufacturing and jobs isn't high on Americans political wishlist. Abortion, Guns, Gay marriage and tax cuts for the rich are the topics Americans really care about. All I need to do is listen to freaks such as Bachman or Romney to see what matters to Americans and it's nothing but crap issues. I remember when Rep(R) Duncan Hunter was one of the few Conservatives that ripped on Freetrade and Globalization. It got him nothing. Conservatives don't care about jobs or manufacturing. It's like lecturing a pig about nuclear physics. Teabaggers are even worse. They are numerically challenged and historically illiterate peasants for the most part who know very little about anything and can only spout Ayn Randian/libertarian nostrums. Democrats are just as bad. Just look at the Conservative shit heads that blue states Ohio and Michigan elected as governors. These are rust belt states and they voted in people that are ardent globalists who think sending jobs to China and selling state assets to foreign nationals is a good thing. Maybe when we have 50% unemployment people's attitude towards jobs and manufacturing will change. I voted for Duncan Hunter.
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