Democratic Hypocrisy On Income Inequality
In the not so distant past, textile mills employed thousands across the state of South Carolina. PYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
In the not so distant past, textile mills employed thousands across the state of South Carolina. PYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Remember when Carolinians were demagogued into opposing the nasty unions and supporting ‘right to work’ in textile mills would protect the thousands of employed across the state of South Carolina and people had jobs – real jobs that paid a living wage?
NAFTA? the textile jobs that SC lost did not go to Mexico. or maybe you think they make tube socks in canada. why does everyone want to be op-ed writer? how about doing some journalism?
When did conservatives become anti-free trade? You people confuse the shit out of me.
They confuse the hell out of themselves too, so don’t feel bad.
I quote Big T(paraphrase really): “Conservatism is my gut feeling”.
lol…no thought needed. (and this isn’t an endorsement for Dems)
This prose is nothing more than the blind attempting to lead the blind… Washington is synonymous with RINO’s and has been for nearly half a century… remind me again when NAFTA was passed??
NAFTA, passed under “Bush the First”, signed into law by “Slick Willie” Clinton.
I am beginning to give more credence into the “Illuminati”.
…yep, although i am not quite yet ready to give the illuminati any credit at all, but someone(s) sure are trying to imitate the fantasy b/c these presidents are only talking heads… the underbelly is what is really moving the whole facade…
How long ago was it that the min. wage was a living wage? I don’t think it ever was…
Son, if you are just now gradating USC you were not even born when SC’s textile industry died. NAFTA was a Bush I plan, and Republicans have always supported free trade and shipping jobs to China. Remember Bush II said outsourcing was good for the country. Please stop watching the Fake News Network and listening to Rush Limbaugh. You don’t know what you are talking about.
we, the consumer, dictate where the jobs are. As long as folks patronize wallyworld and its clones, there will not be fair paying jobs here. You want 4 tee shirts for $2.99? Do the math. There is no way in hell to manufacture that in the US and make a profit. When we stop buying this cheap, inferior merchandise and bite the bullet and pay real prices for quality products, jobs will return. I look for made in America logos before I buy anything.
“There is no way in hell to manufacture that in the US and make a profit.”
There are ways, but it requires elimination of labor(automation).
I suspect that trend will speed up over time, but there is a fundamental issue with the money printing that is distorting(and has been) capital structures for some time and driving things away from capital investment in manufacturing for some time….propping markets that probably shouldn’t be and wiping out markets that would actually create more manufacturing base with the proper capital investments.
It makes sense to manufacture labor intensive things over seas, but the current conditions in the US make it hard to even do the automated manufacturing.
Actually, no, it doesn’t. It simply means a return to healthy, yet not continuously increasing, profits. When businesses moved manufacturing offshore, prices didn’t go down. Reported profits did, however, go up. Management bonuses went up. Prices did NOT go down. Money that would have been paid as wages and would have re-entered the economy was taken out of our economy altogether. Sorry, China isn’t buying a whole heck of a lot from us. Corporate greed and a pirate mentality have damaged our economy.
I blame Bush
Get your facts straight. NAFTA was negotiated by the first President Bush. At least in the Clinton White House, there was some hand-wringing about NAFTA. Clinton was a Blue Dog Democrat who was right-of-center on most economic issues