I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable Holiday, and yes it wasn't long enough.
As everyone knows our economy is not doing very well at this time and two reasons would be because of Oil, and Corporate America. As we continue to fight over in the Middle East our country has a Super Power in the shadows, (CHINA). If you look at all the products being purchased in this country from house- hold goods, clothes, shoes, tools, toys and so much more, 90% comes from CHINA. CORPORATE AMERICA continues to move factories and businesses over seas because the labor is cheaper. Less companies and factories in America means less jobs, less jobs means more unemployment, more unemployment means a down economy. Not only that, the factories and businesses in CHINA, MEXICO, INDIA, ETC, employ children and workers that work 10-12 hours per day just to eat for the day. It's all about the almighty dollar.
Don't get me wrong,I own several businesses and buy wholesale merchandise from china, the reason? No one else makes the products we sell. Nothing is made in America anymore and if the package has printed on it made in America, once you open it underneath some where else it says made in CHINA.
What can we do to fix this problem? Why can't America products compete with foreign prices? Should America start building Companies and Factories and cut back on importing products from other Counties? What is our solution? Should America start drilling for oil in our own country and employ workers? Should America stop buying all this oil from the Middle East? The people of America need to get together and find a solution to our problem and address congress.
(Please send me a comment back with your opinions)
ROBERT SWETZ
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Robert, good post, you are asking the million dollar question. How do we accomplish this? I think that we can in fact compete in the world wide level. It would be easy to just tell our coporations to build or reopen the factories that we have here. We would have to have a work force that actually wants to work, not have everything handed to them. Sorry, that is one of my pet peeves. We would have to close our borders to illegal immigration and make it so that our corporations large or small have a tax advantage to hire legal residents or citizens of this country, and lose money for having undocumented workers. We would have to have someone develop alternative energy sources for our automobiles without the technology being purchased by big oil. In order to actually bring factories back, there would have to be incentives to do so, whether they come in tax breaks, or high levies on imported good. All of what I mentioned, will probably never come around, because they are expensive, unpopular, or whatever the reason.