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In reply to the discussion: So, fans of free trade, how does shipping jobs out of America create jobs for America? [View all]KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)41. Jobs making iPods, cell phones, solar panels, LEDs, video projectors,
were never in the USA. China is on their 2nd or 3rd wave of new factories -- that was my point. And many of the things that people think are coming from China actually come from Mexico or Canada, like flat panel TVs for example. Most clothing that is sold in the US is NOT made in China, but rather in an even poorer country like Pakistan or Bangladesh. Most stamped metal products are coming from India. Shoes and small electronics from Vietnam.
China is not the cheapest place to manufacture anymore and I can't think of a business that has moved manufacturing there recently.
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So, fans of free trade, how does shipping jobs out of America create jobs for America? [View all]
Zalatix
Apr 2012
OP
That's what corporations have done to f**k up our country, and why our country is in this
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2012
#2
Because nearly everybody in both parties did this to us and they knew exactly
Egalitarian Thug
Apr 2012
#67
What difference does it make that both parties did it? It's still the government's fault
badtoworse
Apr 2012
#68
But this isn't the WWII era when the infrastructures of Japan and Europe lay in ruins.....
marmar
Apr 2012
#8
No, but TVs, clothing, shoes, appliances, toys, and just about every other consumer product were
Lydia Leftcoast
Apr 2012
#34
Your response shows you didn't read my question, so DO NOT lecture me about research.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#24
It is not bogus. You once again did not read. I did put a question mark after it.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#29
Good luck with putting toddlers to work on your revived AMC Pacer assembly line
KurtNYC
Apr 2012
#63
Ironic that you should use the phrase "Jobs making iPods" with respect to Chinese labour. (NT)
Heywood J
Apr 2012
#44
I have outsourced my DU posting to China, here is the answer (which cost me only 18-cents):
KurtNYC
Apr 2012
#48
Yup, we know that. The problem is nobody's buying what you're selling. We all see right through it.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#57
Better question is who is going to fund Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.?
NNN0LHI
Apr 2012
#71