The truth about minimum wage and income inequality

[ChesusRice]

We export a lot to China

 

[Canna Sylvan]

you're preaching to the choir, racist rabbit.

my dad just gave me his 29 year old chainsaw, the same one i see in childhood pics from the house we lived in which was heated by a wood burning stove. we would get shipments of logs in and cut, split, and stack those fuckers in the basement. i frankly can't wait until that is a possibility again, for the record.

but the same company that now makes that same brand of chainsaw (and many others) are now chinese made crap, and parts are harder to come by then they are for this 29 year old chainsaw.

but nonetheless, there is obvious demand for these cheap pieces of shit, and your defense of protectionist tariffs does not exactly scream "free market", like you do in just about every other post of blind rage (you commie!). they also hurt low income wage slaves like you more than they hurt anyone else.

but, i'm not surprised to see you arguing against your own best interests with a generous helping of double standard and hypocrisy mixed in.

It would be in my best interest. If you tax foreign goods so high, only the rich can afford it or obsessive nerds. This would in turn create a domestic interest in formerly foreign cheap Chinese crap markets.

If I want to personally import a Chinese whore, I make sure I do this.

 

[cannabineer]

Foreign products are bullshit quality. All my American products far outlast all my imported goods.

I even support your ass.

You're welcome.

http://www.lumagen.com/testindex.php?module=about

I cannot buy American woodworking tools to match the quality of the German and Japanese ones i have. cn

 

[Winter Woman]

I cannot buy American woodworking tools to match the quality of the German and Japanese ones i have. cn

I think he means Chinese made tools. I believe DeWalt is now made in China/Mexico and maybe Black and Decker too. Hard to find American made anything now.

 

[cannabineer]

I think he means Chinese made tools. I believe DeWalt is now made in China/Mexico and maybe Black and Decker too. Hard to find American made anything now.

I was delghted to find that the cheap canning jars I got at the Wart were made in USA. They're for my <cough!> preserves ... cn

 

[Dr Kynes]

I was delghted to find that the cheap canning jars I got at the Wart were made in USA. They're for my <cough!> preserves ... cn

i save jars from pasta sauces and whatnot for that, because im a cheap motherfucker, and canning jars are too useful and expensive for curing. plus i actually do preserve foods in my canning jars and since you cannot sterilize a ragu jar's lid without ruining the seal, and my dope doesnt mind a non-hermetic enviornment...

 

[Canna Sylvan]

I cannot buy American woodworking tools to match the quality of the German and Japanese ones i have. cn

Because most "American" isn't American American anymore.

My American Denon Mitt Romney brand blu-ray player is very good quality and all metal. It's nearly the quality of my Lumagen video processor/transcoder.

 

[cannabineer]

Because most "American" isn't American American anymore.

My American Denon Mitt Romney brand blu-ray player is very good quality and all metal. It's nearly the quality of my Lumagen video processor/transcoder.

My experience is that American toolmakers, even the pricy artisans, don't care for woodworking. They don't make world-class hand tools. cn

 

[UncleBuck]

My experience is that American toolmakers, even the pricy artisans, don't care for woodworking. They don't make world-class hand tools. cn

can you sell me a spoon?

 

[thecoolman]

tariffs are just an effective tax on the middle class, they hurt the middle class and working poor more than anyone. it's a regressive tax.

Countries like China don"t practice free trade and manipulate there currency value so not tariffing the hell out of them is taxing all of us except those that hold interest in Chinese factories.
Why do you think all the jobs went there fool.

 

[thecoolman]

Obama has passed 18 jobs bills with the majority being aimed at small businesses and has created 80 gajillion jobs.


Lets take a poll. Should he stay the course,thousand points of light and all that. Should he do 18 more or let someone else give it shot?

Keep saying it and maybe someone else as stupid as you will believe it. 80 gajillion jobs...LOL idiot

 

[thecoolman]

We export a lot to China

Sure thats why we have just as many factories as we did in the 70s and 80s..The comments get more and more pathetic.

 

[UncleBuck]

Countries like China don"t practice free trade and manipulate there currency value so not tariffing the hell out of them is taxing all of us except those that hold interest in Chinese factories.
Why do you think all the jobs went there fool.

*their

Keep saying it and maybe someone else as stupid as you will believe it. 80 gajillion jobs...LOL idiot

*sarcasm

Sure thats why we have just as many factories as we did in the 70s and 80s..The comments get more and more pathetic.

you remind me of parker. did you forget your password or something?

 

[nontheist]

*their



*sarcasm



you remind me of parker. did you forget your password or something?

No he sounds like Obama and Romney did they not say the same thing during the presidential debate or are you being retarded again at the expense of a weak ass troll? I guess you're going to deny that too until someone posts a youtube video circling the time in crayola for you.

 

[ChesusRice]

The boom in U.S. exports is not helping erase America’s trade deficit with China, which was $295 billion in 2011, $22 billion higher than the year before. But American exports to China have increased by 468 percent since 2001, when the country joined the World Trade Organization, and are up by nearly 50 percent since 2008.
American business leaders applaud the Obama administration for putting the spotlight on exports during meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao last year and with Vice President Xi Jinping during his visit to Washington last month. But they say there has been little, if any, change in the Chinese government’s trade policies, licensing laws and investment rules — which, according to American policymakers and businesspeople, restrict China’s markets in some areas and keep the playing field uneven. The Chinese currency is undervalued by as much as 30 percent, U.S. officials have said.

 

[nontheist]

The boom in U.S. exports is not helping erase America&#8217;s trade deficit with China, which was $295 billion in 2011, $22 billion higher than the year before. But American exports to China have increased by 468 percent since 2001, when the country joined the World Trade Organization, and are up by nearly 50 percent since 2008.
American business leaders applaud the Obama administration for putting the spotlight on exports during meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao last year and with Vice President Xi Jinping during his visit to Washington last month. But they say there has been little, if any, change in the Chinese government&#8217;s trade policies, licensing laws and investment rules &#8212; which, according to American policymakers and businesspeople, restrict China&#8217;s markets in some areas and keep the playing field uneven. The Chinese currency is undervalued by as much as 30 percent, U.S. officials have said.

We know Chesus are you trolling bucky?

 

[Rob Roy]

If you dont have a job you cant be a consumer, or maybe you can with your welfare check.

If they really wanted to create jobs they would by pushing small business programs. You're right rather than promote private small business they do everything in their power to eliminate it. Big business pays congress well to eliminate competition.

Government CANT' "create jobs". They can (and do) only place obstacles in the way. Whenever a "government job" is created, it creates a GREATER need for the government to take away money, via taxation, from the producers. This is not job creation, but debt creation that the government practices.

Crony capitalism thru the military industrial complex uses perverse incentives and results in consequences that lead to the destruction of innocent people. I'm not in favor of THOSE kinds of jobs. As far as government subsidized stuff...that creates dependence rather than incentive.

Bottom line, whenever government "helps" think of it in these terms, they break your leg, then hand you some crutches and think you need to kiss their ass for "helping" you.

 

[Canna Sylvan]

Rob,

The government does create jobs every once in a while. The same way a thief creates a job for new police.

 

[ChesusRice]

Rob,

The government does create jobs every once in a while. The same way a thief creates a job for new police.

I didnt know the roads sewers and other infrastructure in your area was all done by private funding

 

[Canna Sylvan]

I didnt know the roads sewers and other infrastructure in your area was all done by private funding

Are fallacies all you got? Even a shit hole like Somalia has all that. If that's all you care about, why don't YOU move there.