Put tariffs back in order to stop outsourcing

[OhioChick]

Who profits from free trade? China, Mexico, India, American business men, and the politicians who enacted it. America's unemployment rate is rising to record breaking heights. America has lost three million factory jobs since 2000. The reason for this is greed. If it costs a hundred dollars to make a product in the US, it costs about fourteen including shipping to make in China. Before 2000 the government put tariffs on imports to protect American companies from being under sold. These same American have shut down plants here reopening overseas where the lower overhead allows their profit margins to soar. As America's deficit rises these other countries economies grows.

We hear all the time how America is making more money since free trade, but what they fail to say is that only one percent of Americans possess the money made. Outsourcing is hurting our economy, and is causing our once strong self-sufficient country to become weak and dependent on countries like China.

I listen as the Republicans and Democrats blame each other, but the solution is simple put the tariffs back, and bring our jobs home. If it isn't cheaper to produce and import in China, than maybe American businesses will stop outsourcing.

http://www.standard.net/stories/2011/11/21/put-tariffs-back-order-stop-outsourcing

[Vincardog]

1. If it isn't cheaper to produce and import in China, American businesses will stop outsourcing

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Cotton was cheaper to grow with slave labor...

What's your point?

[Vincardog]

4. WE need to return to the American plan. USe Tariffs to protect American JOBS

[FiveGoodMen]

8. Thanks. I didn't quite understand you the first time

:hi:

[Lasher]

2. I strongly agree.

Once a free trade agreement is in place, over time we become more like them and they become more like us. If you like the idea of lowering the US standard of living for 99% of us, then you've gotta love free trade agreements.

The current race to the bottom cannot be stopped without tariffs.

[ihavenobias]

5. # 6. n/t

[jwirr]

6. When they say "America is making more money" they mean the

1%. Also I think that the trade agreements specifically reject tariffs. Unfortunately.

[Vincardog]

9. The trade agreements MAY reject American tariffs but the Chinese seem to have them

[Populist_Prole]

10. Yes, and their tendency to show "gains" in macro terms is also dishonest

Everyone's life is lived in real terms, not macro. They use this bromide to say the US gains as a whole even though, as you point out, the big gains go to the 1%, and the little ones are small and spread out. They'll say shit like "consumers saved 2,000,000 in purchasing power due to cheap imports from China" blah blah blah. They like to use raw numbers, rather than a percentage to mask the fact that a small percentage of purchasing power of a whole lotta people pales in comparison to those that lost their livelyhoods as a result.

[reggie the dog]

7. [phone]

[PETRUS]

11. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, etc. are a big lobby for import subsidies.

Not directly, of course. But they do successfully pressure the Fed and the Treasury to maintain a "strong dollar," which has the same effect an import subsidy or a foreign tariff on American goods. A strong dollar gives them more clout internationally.