re: Strip away whataboutism, election fraud, and specific GOPE policies, what does MAGA offer?

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American manufacturers utilizing domestic labor and materials are at a competitive disadvantage to every other nations mfgrs.

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n a reversal of global trade patterns, a Hong Kong shoe company recently opened a factory in Jefferson City, Tennessee. Loretta Lee, the founder and chairwoman of Merchant House International Ltd.—which makes everything from industrial work boots to kitchen towels and Christmas decorations—told the Wall Street Journal she found it “ridiculous” to ship US cow hides across the Pacific to be processed, made into shoes, and returned to US consumers as leather goods.




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Is the era of outsourcing textile production ending? American Merchant says yes



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domestic home textiles industry that once made billions of dollars’ worth of sheets and towels decamped for Asia, manufacturing in the category is slowly starting to return to the United States. The latest entry in the Made in the USA movement comes from a new company called American Merchant, which is putting the final touches on its first manufacturing facility in Bristol, Virginia—a town of 17,000 in the southwestern corner of the state, part of a Tri-Cities region that also includes Johnson City and Kingsport, Tennessee, and that is perhaps best known as “The Birthplace of Country Music.” The new textiles mill, which will use American-grown cotton and American-spun yarn, expects to be up and running (and shipping towels) by the second half of this year.

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Companies and individuals should be able to purchase the things they value with their dollar, and without government interference.

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Trade reciprocity to grow a manufacturing based and have less of a service based economy.

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This is a weird thing to me. One of the things Trump people like to brag about is low inflation. But… onshoring labor can only happen two ways: massive pay cuts for US workers , or massive price inflation to support the drastic increase in wages manufacturers will have to pay.

ETA:: jeebus had no idea this has already gone 12 pages.

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Chicken needs to grow some big feathery nuts and get rid of some idiots on this board.

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Trust me...when you see the name on a post and you know they are anti-Trump, woke, a Democrat, a girly boy, etc. just hit the down vote like I do and don't bother to read their dribble. They live for the attention since obviously they didn't get it as a child.

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How do you compete globally?

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There were plenty of nations to deal with that would have placed us in the place that we are.

We competed just fine.

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. just hit the down vote like I do and don't bother to read their dribble. They live for the attention since obviously they didn't get it as a child.

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Scared status: confirmed.

I’m taking your argument to the extreme to point out how maybe….just maybe….the world has changed and the traditional conservative free trade arguments need to be revisited.

And for the record, I have no problem with free trade at all with countries that allow currency to flow freely and back to individuals and companies who foster production. State owned companies don’t meet this definition.

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Why do you want to put Americans at a disadvantage?

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I mean… Trump literally delayed import tariffs so Christmas would be more affordable for Americans.

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what does MAGA offer?

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Yuge doses of TDS.

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Trust me...when you see the name on a post and you know they are anti-Trump, woke, a Democrat, a girly boy, etc. just hit the down vote like I do and don't bother to read their dribble. They live for the attention since obviously they didn't get it as a child

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Does it concern you that if everyone adopted your worldview we’d just have groups of echo chambers that gradually lose the ability to even communicate with one another?