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Originally Posted by Robbie
I don't know, by the time I lived in S.C. there were empty mills all over the place. Matter of fact, all three houses I owned there were old "mill houses" (built by the companies for their employees)
As for competing with China...S.C. competed with the rest of the world for that BMW plant and won it.
You can theorize all you want. But facts are facts. The state gave BMW a great deal. They decided that building the cars in S.C. to sell in the U.S was cheaper that way than building them in China or some other cheap labor country and having to import them into the U.S.
Bottom line is that "yes", you can make a more attractive environment for companies and get them to build here. I saw it with my own two eyes. And they aren't the only car company that did that.
The Southeastern U.S. is full of Honda, VW, Hyundai, and other company plants building cars...anywhere BUT Detroit because of the unions and the high taxes there.
That's why Detroit is a ghost town.
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They didnt compete with the rest of the world for it. They competed in America for it because BMW wanted a plant closer to where the people who buy their cars are. Shipping cars from overseas and going thru inspections isnt cheap. Also you got to find another straw man, unions make up less than 11 percent of workers in america. They are a non issue.
Overseas they can do things they cant do here. With one of the iphones something was wrong and had to be addressed. They woke the whole plant up in the middle of the night, gave them a cup of tea and biscuit and put them to work for 16 hrs straight. The Apple guy commented this is amazing you cant get this in America.
Technology is the problem not Obama. Instagram was 6 people and worth billions of dollars more than kodak was ever worth and they had hundreds of thousands of workers. Craigslist destroyed the newspaper ad business and that was thousands of jobs replaced by some people working out of a guys house. In ten years there will be self driving cars and kiss all those driving jobs goodbye. What do you do with those people? This is a huge problem no one want to look at.