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While the entire world looks on at the despair being seen in places such as Greece and Ireland, many are failing to see what is fast becoming the worst economy in the developed world, America.
Originally posted by Nephalim
reply to post by FlyingJadeDragon
Great, this means we wont have "made in China" all over everything anymore.
Thanks China!
Originally posted by Nephalim
reply to post by FlyingJadeDragon
Great, this means we wont have "made in China" all over everything anymore.
Thanks China!
Originally posted by Nephalim
reply to post by loagun
On the contrary, with less items on the shelf, we find motivation to make all of those goods; which equals the re-opening of local plants, manufacturers, businesses, grocers, farmers and jobs and an easing of all these ridiculous laws that get passed here. We will also lose some weight working instead of sitting on the couch which will shed the fat american jokes worldwide! People can go out and grow their gardens again, open small businesses, hire US workers, grow and manage livestock...put those degrees to use, good times ahead! Go China, get to dropping that dollar naoooo! NAAAAAOOOOO! I'm stoked about it.
The thought that we are somehow unable to manufacture in mass is laughable at best, and I cant smile hard enough at how people here think them dropping the dollar is a bad thing and leaves us somehow stripped of economic power, helpless, starving and broke. If anything we are more than capable of producing all of these things ourselves. So nothing against China, but by them dropping the dollar, my country moves on and moves forward, I'm all for it, if that upsets someone, oh well but you wont see me sad about it.
Yes,but where does the money come from to build said manufacturing capacity? Do you really believe a company such as Apple is going to be willing to take a huge hit to it's bottom line by having to hire union labor or pay people $20+ per hour plus benefits when they can pay someone overseas $2 per hour and minimal no benefits?
Do you really think Americans are going to want to pay $1500 dollars for a phone that used to cost $400 because of subsidies and cheap overseas manufacturing? Nope. Not a chance. Globalization is here to stay. Where there are huge profits and cheap labor,the market will follow. Only when America's standard of living drops in line with the emerging economies will you see any real possibility of a recovery and the return of manufacturing.
Keep smiling because that's the only thing they can't take away from you or charge for you.
Originally posted by Nephalim
reply to post by FlyingJadeDragon
Yes,but where does the money come from to build said manufacturing capacity? Do you really believe a company such as Apple is going to be willing to take a huge hit to it's bottom line by having to hire union labor or pay people $20+ per hour plus benefits when they can pay someone overseas $2 per hour and minimal no benefits?
We dont have to build that manufacturing capacity, we already have it, that's the point. When we started buying all that junk from China, our manufacturing went down, it doesn't mean the plants were torn down, just that they lost jobs and some got shut down. Investors know, they KNOW the difference between our workmanship and that of other countries, very few compete, watch that money come rollin in when people start announcing that they can now buy American again. hello stocks and quality, bye bye junk.
Besides you would be surprised at American determination and innovation; if you've never seen it, allow me to point you to the last few hundred years sans major trade with China. Our world does not totally revolve around China man sorry. We built this country on hard work and right now it is sorely missed. Americans are chompin' at the bit to not only get back to work and compete but to show everyone how its done. If anything, China will only want to invest American once they drop the dollar, just watch.
Do you really think Americans are going to want to pay $1500 dollars for a phone that used to cost $400 because of subsidies and cheap overseas manufacturing? Nope. Not a chance. Globalization is here to stay. Where there are huge profits and cheap labor,the market will follow. Only when America's standard of living drops in line with the emerging economies will you see any real possibility of a recovery and the return of manufacturing.
Keep smiling because that's the only thing they can't take away from you or charge for you.
I think Americans will pay for American products knowing that the phones,furniture, computers and other things that they buy arent going to break in a year and they wont cost as much as you think they will, to add to that confidence, other countries will also benefit from American made quality, and I'll smile all the way to the bank while China and people like you cant figure out why the US didnt fall in this grand plan against our currency. Have fun with that humor, but you know, we just dont suck that much in America, maybe grew a little lazy over the years but even with that, we're actually very capable and even more so capable when presented with challenge.
Originally posted by SeekerofTruth101
reply to post by FlyingJadeDragon
When true inflation hits China, it will hit the corporations as well as the masses.
No more can the masses live on $100 a month. No more can the Corporations pay higher wages and higher costs for everything, from materials to land costs and hope to profit. The only way they can profit is to jack up their prices. For example - your analogy of the iphone will no longer cost $400, but probably in the region of $800 as everyone is hit including the middlemen in charge of shipping and transportation.
At that price, Apple can forget about the 1.3 billion people market share that China provides, for none can afford it with the inflation rising on everything else.
Their market will be the world, but $800 for a piece of junk? Nope, probably many will rather revert back to Motorala phones.
Apple will have to either pack up and go to Africa and produce more worthless junk at $400 till inflation hits those states, and then ultimately return to the western hemisphere where an educated workforce awaits to take its products to greater heights on the technological table, IF it is willing to share its profits.
As for the dollar sinking, its a new reality for China, that had been living in a fool's paradise in assuming it can call the shots on the world when their people are still slaves, and have too small a middle class to support its policies. Dumping the dollar isn't going to help, for every nation right now are fiscally unstable.
Their only hope of fiscal stability is gold, either purchased or robbed at gun point. But then, every whore's son of a bitch political puppet will be doing the same. Africa - the lodestone.
Originally posted by quantum_flux
I think there should be a rule where a patent is automatically voided if it is being manufactured in a different country from where the patent was filed.
Originally posted by Nephalim
reply to post by FlyingJadeDragon
None of that mess is going to matter if China drops the dollar Jade.
Originally posted by wisdomnotemotion
China has no guts to drop the dollar.
Even though China has the financial power to do it, the perception and mindset among the Chinese government haven't change that US consumers still top of the food chain. It seems China doesn't want to be on top of the food chain and it also shows its reluctance to help its suffering low-income citizens.
Power and money are nothing if the slave mentality remains. Despite tons of propaganda news about "great" China, the fact is China is still a slave to United States.
Originally posted by wisdomnotemotion
China has no guts to drop the dollar.