Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Thu Apr 17 2025 01:43 am
MP>Honestly, though, I really don't agree with your premise. I don't think it
>had anything to do with savng the *consumer* money... I think it had more
>to do with making more money for the corporations involved. The fact that
>it saved the consumer money was a side-effect.
That's probably more common in recent years. I can't help but think
back 30 or more years and watching the price of something like a
Video Recorder or Microwave Oven drop from $600 to $100 because
they started making them in China. The (early) quality was crap but
people still bought them to save the money.
As you've suggested, the problem with bringing manufacturing back
to the USA is that the difference in what you pay your workers
compared to what people in China, India or Mexico make will greatly
increase the cost of those things UNLESS you go to much more
automated assembly plants which will lower the cost but won't
create the jobs that Trump keeps talking about.
