by oldedude on March 7, 2025 5:49 pm
I read it again and still don't get it. Moving on.
First, there don't have to be "thousands" of factories. There will still be trade. No one in their right mind would want to dissolve trade.
What we would build is better quality automobiles with US steel, aluminum, etc. Computer chips, self-sufficient in oil. Furniture is something they've also been talking about. It was huge in parts of the US. Again then we started buying the crap that falls apart when you have to build it.
Are we going to get rid of the chinese $29.95 mega-widgets that are thrown away? Maybe if we have a $49 or $50 mega-widget that is actually not something you're willing to just dispose of. That has quality and lasts more than a week.
I by T-shirts that are a buck or two more because the shirt (per se) is US made. Why? because the chinese crap only stays together for a couple of months. And their rayon shirts are actually one-wash shirts, then they literally fall apart and fade.
Another thing we need to catch up with is polypropylene garments. You know them as those fuzzy things that most kids and adults will wear. Our grocery bags are used for those garments. We don't have anyone in the US that can change those over. I would be happy to buy a US made thing to keep a person in a job.
ALSO, our recycling in the US SUCKS. simply put. When I was in Germany in the 1970's, everyone recycled wine bottles. Yes, the distributors picked them up, they were cleaned and sold back to the wineries at a lower cost. Where I'm at, there is no glass recycle, only plastic 1 & 2, and "some" paper. WTF? 40 years and we can't catch up? I've asked wineries about the concept, but it's the government oversight and rules that make using old bottles more expensive than the used.
Steel and Al are also reusable items, and yet there are very few recycle areas for them. (Meaning they refurbish the metal into raw blocks, sheeting, or wire to send to manufacturing plants to make stuff).
Also, I'm not carping at you by any means. These are just things I've seen in my life that are doable. And they can get people hired with full-time jobs and medical care. It pisses me off that the government is pushing us NOT to do these things.
As these people get hired, there is more spendable money, or cash on hand. Hopefully, we can get people to pay down personal debt, which would make us stronger. Also, we have fewer people on social services (medicaid, CHIP, etc). We'll still have Medicare and Social Security. That's not going anywhere for my lifetime at least. And we'll have money to pay for it.
by meagain on March 8, 2025 10:07 am
Are you in pain, OD. Is that what makes you so lacking in comprehension.
I said federal employees and state employees are unionised. That means unionism in the private sector is too weak to have any effect other than in a few industries. Here it is for you. Possibly more than one sentence was too much for you, so reduced to the specifics:
"The Union rate in the USA is 11% and that largest sector, a plurality of the total is public employees. "
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