The Foreign Trade Thread

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AM64 said:
It's peer pressure. You can't get elected without matching the "gifts" the other side hands out. You can't do anything about anything if you are not elected and sitting on the sidelines watching. Any responsible parent knows all about peer pressure from their kids ... so and so's parent's let her do that; why won't you - and then it gets ugly with recrimination. Hard to be a responsible parent when you face peer pressure brought by liberal parents.
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wtf are you talking about?
 
#1,678
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Septic said:
wtf are you talking about?
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OK, reeeeal simple. Closet to crayons I can get. The GOP has to give up conservative ideals to get elected because Dims are willing to buy votes with tax money. If Republicans aren't in office at all, they can't change anything.

Do I like it? No. It's a fact of life in business; one manufacture introduces a marketing strategy to capture customers from rivals; the rival has little choice but to reciprocate.
 
#1,679
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AM64 said:
OK, reeeeal simple. Closet to crayons I can get. The GOP has to give up conservative ideals to get elected because Dims are willing to buy votes with tax money. If Republicans aren't in office at all, they can't change anything.

Do I like it? No. It's a fact of life in business; one manufacture introduces a marketing strategy to capture customers from rivals; the rival has little choice but to reciprocate.
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LOL, the mental gymnastics you have to jump through to reconcile that the republicans aren't any more fiscally conservative than the democrats.

You bozo's will be the first to bellyache the split second a democrat spends tax payers dollars on bullsht. Whistling past the graveyard now. Just own it, have a little dignity.
 
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carlos86 said:
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Cry me a river. He didn't just farm and grow crops for a living; the guy gambled on how the futures market would price certain crops and lost. He'll have a market; he just won't profit as much because of the price gouging game. Next time you watch your cost of gas shoot skyward just remember some powerful players used generally insignificant events to make it happen.
 
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Velo Vol said:
$108 hoodies

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A hoodie you can own for 15 years at 108$ vs a hoodie from China that the zipper breaks after 2 years for 20$. I'll take the first.
I've ordered clothes made in China before, they suck. Far inferior quality, really cheap thus they don't last long. In short, you get what you pay for. Good quality products aren't cheap.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
A hoodie you can own for 15 years at 108$ vs a hoodie from China that the zipper breaks after 2 years for 20$. I'll take the first.
I've ordered clothes made in China before, they suck. Far inferior quality, really cheap thus they don't last long. In short, you get what you pay for. Good quality products aren't cheap.
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Basically all clothing is imported now and you wouldn't say it's all cheap.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
A hoodie you can own for 15 years at 108$ vs a hoodie from China that the zipper breaks after 2 years for 20$. I'll take the first.
I've ordered clothes made in China before, they suck. Far inferior quality, really cheap thus they don't last long. In short, you get what you pay for. Good quality products aren't cheap.
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The sweetness of low price is quickly forgotten but the bitterness of poor quality lingers long!
 
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Velo Vol said:
Basically all clothing is imported now and you wouldn't say it's all cheap.
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Yep, the garment workers union was just one of several that didn't understand foreign competition and how the law of supply and demand affects labor pricing.
 
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Over the past several years we've given up manufacturing to any number of countries such as China and Mexico - with much of the blame going to our noncompetitive labor rates vs the global labor market. Trump has applied tariffs in an attempt to force some kind of reversal, and in return we get this:

Auto union workers overwhelmingly vote to authorize strikes at GM, Ford, Fiat Chrysler

That's exactly the same crap that started the whole debacle. One large issue is that the a single union can represent workers across an entire industry while companies within the industry are forbidden under antitrust laws from mutual support. It's time to trim union power, so that unions cannot band together and single unions cannot cross company lines and affect an entire industry. Democrats own a huge part of this madness. Time for them to look at what's good for the country rather than what's good for the party, Apply antitrust laws to all business entities ... unions are simply another industry - they sell labor.
 
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