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Originally Posted by TCLGirls
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Hart Shaffner Marx Platinum Label Classic Fit Trousers - 100% Bloomingdale's Exclusive | Bloomingdale's
$245 for high quality USA made dress slacks
Men's Dress Pants, Suit Pants, Dress Slacks | Men's Wearhouse
note the difference in the Joseph Abboud made in USA items v. the Joseph Abboud imports (from asia?)
Just one example how consumer prices will rise if we bring the McJobs in low skilled manufacturing back from Asia. Instead of paying Asian workers $1 or $2 an hour, a liveable wage in some parts of Asia, we pay American workers $10 or $15 an hour (+plus mandated as well as offered benefits) to produce essentially the same goods. Even if productivity efficiency is improved 50% -- these relatively low value goods will cost a lot more.
woj is wrong. That $1,000 computer he buys made with global content and assembled in Asia with low cost labor would cost $2,500 if it was 80% USA made content and assembled in Texas. Maybe, he could assemble the computer from parts himself or with is own people and save a couple of hundred dollars, maybe.
Explain to me how this would not be inflationary?
Voodoo Economics v 2.0
McJobs for the people -- get your training at Trump University or Bernie Free U. I would have no problem with reforming the educational system in America to train qualifying people for the jobs that are in demand -- and having some of my tax money applied to that. But giving Americans jobs in garment factories like my grandfather owned 70 years ago. They were shitty jobs then and very expensive jobs today.