3/20/2012 12:51:24 AM , Rating: 1
The difference is you can live on 50c an hour in china but can't in the US, dumbfuck. If the politicians in this country had any balls they'd just threaten to slap say a 50% import tariff on any Chinese made goods until they resumed shipments of rare earths to the states. Parent
3/20/2012 1:18:17 AM , Rating: 1
Great plan. Making just about everything we buy cost 50% more would totally rock for our economy.p.s. extreme sarcasm Parent
3/20/2012 1:53:37 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah, manufacturing everything in China has been working great at making ultra rich globalists richer at the expense of everybody else. You'd phase in a 50% tariff over say 5 years (or more if necessary depending on the logistics of a particular industry) to make it increasing unprofitable to manufacture in china and put the cash into a fund that's used to set subsidize relocating chinese manufacturing operations to the US. Parent
3/20/2012 4:55:32 PM , Rating: 2
Um...They'll just move to vietnam or somewhere else. Manufacturing jobs are gone from this country for good. China will lose its hold on manufacturing as well as it slowly continues its development. Once all the cheap labor runs out, as in once the chain hits Africa, robotics take over. Parent
3/20/2012 2:49:30 PM , Rating: 2
I'm generally strongly in favor of free trade, but not if the other side isn't playing by the same rules.The proper response to the Rare Earth embargo is import and export taxes levied against China.Or we can act like pussies and bring a complaint to the WTO and discuss the dispute.As you can tell we are crying to mom and expect the WTO to punish China for us.The presumption that we are more dependant on China than they are on us is ridiculous. Our economy is over three times the size of theirs. We will survive a trade dispute, they won't. And yes, you may have to cut back on your cheap Chinese-made plastic crap for a few months, but you'll survive. Parent
3/20/2012 12:51:24 AM , Rating: 1
The difference is you can live on 50c an hour in china but can't in the US, dumbfuck. If the politicians in this country had any balls they'd just threaten to slap say a 50% import tariff on any Chinese made goods until they resumed shipments of rare earths to the states. Parent
3/20/2012 1:18:17 AM , Rating: 1
Great plan. Making just about everything we buy cost 50% more would totally rock for our economy.p.s. extreme sarcasm Parent
3/20/2012 1:53:37 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah, manufacturing everything in China has been working great at making ultra rich globalists richer at the expense of everybody else. You'd phase in a 50% tariff over say 5 years (or more if necessary depending on the logistics of a particular industry) to make it increasing unprofitable to manufacture in china and put the cash into a fund that's used to set subsidize relocating chinese manufacturing operations to the US. Parent
3/20/2012 4:55:32 PM , Rating: 2
Um...They
'll just move to vietnam or somewhere else. Manufacturing jobs are gone from this country for good. China will lose its hold on manufacturing as well as it slowly continues its development. Once all the cheap labor runs out, as in once the chain hits Africa, robotics take over. Parent
3/20/2012 2:49:30 PM , Rating: 2
I'm generally strongly in favor of free trade, but not if the other side isn't playing by the same rules.The proper response to the Rare Earth embargo is import and export taxes levied against China.Or we can act like pussies and bring a complaint to the WTO and discuss the dispute.As you can tell we are crying to mom and expect the WTO to punish China for us.The presumption that we are more dependant on China than they are on us is ridiculous. Our economy is over three times the size of theirs. We will survive a trade dispute, they won't. And yes, you may have to cut back on your cheap Chinese-made plastic crap for a few months, but you'll survive. Parent