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re: Why companies don't manufacture in the US anymore.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:06 pm to idlewatcher
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:06 pm to idlewatcher
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We've become a country of luxury instead of work is why.
And that is often the end of the life cycle of many of the great empires in history. It will be the story of the United States if Trump & Co aren’t able to turn things around.
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Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:07 pm to scottydoesntknow
Our education system has created a generation of lazy and soft individuals who have neither the ability, nor more importantly the WANT to do the hard work requires in manufacturing. We have a generation of philosophy majors and influencers.
Even if tariffs brought back manufacturing jobs we don't have the workforce.
Even if tariffs brought back manufacturing jobs we don't have the workforce.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:16 pm to LSUDonMCO
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Our education system has created a generation of lazy and soft individuals
I agree and disagree.
I think a major difference from a 20 year old man in 1950 and one in 2025 is that while one saw endless opportunity, one sees a world where corporations have an iron grip on industry and their partnership with government has created a mountain of red tape to climb for any venture and another mountain of taxes to follow if you do have any success.
We told every kid that they had to go to college to make anything of themselves. High School was college prep, not prep to make a life for yourself.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:17 pm to geauxkoo
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Why companies don't manufacture in the US anymore.
Ambulance Chasers, an illiterate workforce , and taxes
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:18 pm to LSUDonMCO
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Even if tariffs brought back manufacturing jobs we don't have the workforce.
Change the rules for welfare and make those able bodied people go to work.
You get someone off them government teat and make them into a taxpayer.
It will take a little time to get them trained but we have to do something. We cant keep paying for people to sit on a couch all day.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:20 pm to LSUDonMCO
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Even if tariffs brought back manufacturing jobs we don't have the workforce.
False. Maybe manufacturing of the past is done...but technology has made it to where we could have "micro-manufacturing"
One or a few people could start making one niche item here in their garage or maybe a small shop. Along with that, a return to trades and skilled craftsmen. This should be encouraged to young men, not college
This post was edited on 3/13/25 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:23 pm to alphaandomega
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Change the rules for welfare and make those able bodied people go to work. You get someone off them government teat and make them into a taxpayer.
Hell, just get people off their welfare checks and start working. Let all people making less than 200k not pay federal taxes
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:25 pm to geauxkoo
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The reason companies have moved out of the US to manufacture is because it is simply too expensive to build in the US anymore.
And that's mainly due to our fiscal policies. Runaway spending by Congress and the manipulation of the dollar by the Fed.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:26 pm to Taxing Authority
"Obsolete thinking"...yeah ok. You don't a fricking thing about what we do and yet you open your cock holster to shite on it.
We work globally...
With Indians (we do the fricking needful)
With Chinese (i bet you did not know that some Chinese companies restrict manufacturing of certain products to USA) Why, you ask? Because they have and continue to kill people trying to make things where they have not stolen the intellectual property yet.
Obsolete
Ok
We work globally...
With Indians (we do the fricking needful)
With Chinese (i bet you did not know that some Chinese companies restrict manufacturing of certain products to USA) Why, you ask? Because they have and continue to kill people trying to make things where they have not stolen the intellectual property yet.
Obsolete
Ok
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:29 pm to geauxkoo
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The reason companies have moved out of the US to manufacture is because it is simply too expensive to build in the US anymore. With all the red tape it is nearly impossible to construct or manufacture anything.
I have no idea why you're collecting downvotes on this so quickly. You're not wrong here at all. Hell, our corporate taxes here are ridiculous (and, of course, they're passed on to the consumer thus driving the cost of domestic production yet higher).
CAFE standards created and enforced by the EPA have made American automobiles as expensive as some houses were only two decades ago.
Toss in union wages that pay a guy $25.00/hour to chuck a spare tire in the trunk of a new car as it rolls out the manufacturer's doors and it should be no surprise why our economy is in a shambles.
I think you summarized the issue fairly well.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:29 pm to Taxing Authority
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How do you think companies that move production here will feel when the next president ends all the tariffs, and they are stuck with manufacturing facilities that are overnight uncompetitive?
That's why my post said 'and the voters will continue voting for pro business candidates.' Corporations look at trends. JD Vance looks good for 28. I don't think JD is gonna go socialist.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:30 pm to geauxkoo
Unions, the answer you are looking for is unions
Posted on 3/13/25 at 1:46 pm to swamptiger99
quote:Because slavery is immoral?
Why pay John $30+ an hour plus benefits and 8 hours a day. When you can pay PingPong, an 8 year old, the absolute bare minimum for 20 hours a day?
Posted on 3/13/25 at 2:12 pm to Houag80
My company has remained in the US and one of only two that is in the same industry we are in. Others moved to Mexico for cheaper labor. We have remained here fighting all the labor cost and the high medical insurance for several years now.
I am full MAGA so don’t take this the wrong way what I’m about to say. We buy raw products from companies inside the US and we are fully Made in the US, but now the tariffs are driving up raw products here. My point is companies that moved to Mexico are not paying the tariffs we are indirectly paying due to higher steel and aluminum. Now the 25% tariff for Mexico has been postponed making it even less expensive for a company that moved to Mexico to skirt higher skilled labor.
We are being punished by keeping the company in the US. Unless something is done soon this will have a major adverse effect on a Made in the US company.
Hammer Mexico with the 25% or drop the others.
I am full MAGA so don’t take this the wrong way what I’m about to say. We buy raw products from companies inside the US and we are fully Made in the US, but now the tariffs are driving up raw products here. My point is companies that moved to Mexico are not paying the tariffs we are indirectly paying due to higher steel and aluminum. Now the 25% tariff for Mexico has been postponed making it even less expensive for a company that moved to Mexico to skirt higher skilled labor.
We are being punished by keeping the company in the US. Unless something is done soon this will have a major adverse effect on a Made in the US company.
Hammer Mexico with the 25% or drop the others.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 2:13 pm to swamptiger99
Damn unions
Posted on 3/13/25 at 2:26 pm to geauxkoo
OP,
wrong.
wrong.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 2:29 pm to Runner1
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We buy raw products from companies inside the US and we are fully Made in the US, but now the tariffs are driving up raw products here.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 2:30 pm to geauxkoo
Trump finna change that.....
Posted on 3/13/25 at 2:38 pm to PNW_TigerSaint
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High labor costs in the US is another reason. Unfortunately don't see that changing without something catastrophic happening.
Anecdotal, but my very close friend is a foreman at a carpet factory in MTG country, their labor is not of the "high cost" variety. It's immigrants and work-release types. Most of the "high skill" stuff in modern factories that demanded higher pay to a higher level brained person have all been automated in the past decades.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 2:39 pm to notsince98
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It was the globalist plan to move manufacturing out of the USA. hence why all the regulation was created to do it.
Then why do we have so much manufacturing still?
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