(01-27-2018, 07:55 PM)EricC85 Wrote:

(01-27-2018, 11:33 AM)JackCity Wrote: 14 year olds back in manufacturing seems like a very good plan.  

I'd actually allow 8 year olds work, makes the workforce so much bigger and gives jobs to more Americans.  Cheaper products and more profit for all!

Understand I'm not advocating that I'm only pointing out that to compete with cheap labor that would be one of the cost allowing child labor back domestically. 

Personally I don't have a problem with cheap labor overseas creating cheaper imported goods. I think American companies can still compete and the tire example I've used is an area that is proven to be true. 

My point is selectively impossing Tarrifs on hand picked industries is counter productive and undercuts supply side economics.

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(01-25-2018, 11:18 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, for instance, are just fine.

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And yet our primary economic adversary has neither free markets nor free trade, so why grant them free access to our market at the same time they undercut us with immoral busuness behaviors? Cheap stuff at the cost of our moral fabric.

Our moral fabric is conducive to how we conduct ourselves. We can't evaluate the rest of the world's moral fabric and decide to only participate in trade with those select we find acceptable. That would be economicly unsustainable since the concept of morality is subjective and changes with whoever is in power.

Your moral fabric is exposed when you are one half of an immoral or unethical partnership. We're a superpower for crying out loud, no one else can influence the world the way we can. Time to act like it, even if it hurts the old pocketbook just a bit. Hell, if that's the case let's forget about deportation and just convict and enslave the illegal population, why should our kids have to work when we got all these "resources" hanging around. America, your new home for the best sweatshops on Earth!

And I agree about select industries, I'm for economic action on entire countries. This war has been going on for 4 decades now, and we're playing to lose.

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