Manufacturing sector slows in July

Maybe China is doing better then and welfare recipients can get better junk at WalMart. There has to be a bright side to us falling on the sword and running manufacturing out of the country.
 
Lower greenhouse gas emissions coming from the US?











But on the down side, it just means that the emissions will increase in China, and be much worse in the long run, because they have less regulation, and since it's "GLOBAL" warming, we will actually fuck up the planet worse by moving manufacturing jobs to China.
 
I don't see us being able to fix this country without industry here. Raise tarrifs on imports and give companies an incentive to build here. I really don't care if the cost of some gooRAB go up or not. Let's get our people working, protect our borders (which protects jobs as well), and stop making gas out of an important food item.
 
alright, time for you to log out and leave the economic discussion to people that have taken even a SINGLE class in the subject, because what you're describing would pretty much guarantee the collapse of our economy.
 
So, cheap imports and growing welfare state is where we are doomed to go? You have families trying to live off two minimum wage jobs and they can't as those jobs were never meant to be there for primary wage earners. We used to have large-scale manufacturing jobs which paid decent wages for those with low skills. What opportunities do "those people" have today? Not everyone can work IT or financial.

I'm not saying we decimate import/exports either, simply make things a bit more even or give corporations reason to expand here and not ship jobs overseas.
 
Why would census jobs in April/May of 2010 (that ended in Sept 2010) affect manufacturing in July of 2011?



But thanks for reminding me about you being completely confused about how macroeconomics work

I will always treasure that
 
Meh, with other currencies hurting a bit relative to the dollar (the Euro perhaps, especially in the department of future expectations) it's no wonder that our manufacturing sector has taken a bit of a hit. Seems perfectly natural.
 
This rather seems to be opperating under the assumption that China is our main competitor in the area of manufacturing. I'm not sure if that is the case given what the two countries produce. We are probably in stronger competition with europe seeing as how our manufacturing sector is very capital intensive and higher tech. That's just a guess though.
 
I don't think that those jobs ever really paid extremely well relative to the living standarRAB of today. When we were running sweatshops and 12 hour days in unsafe working conditions it was pretty shitty too. It is a good thing, both economically and for us in terms of leisure that we have managed to progress past relying on a low skill manufacturing base. If you need a better job get a high school diploma and move on up out of the minimum wage job at McDonalRAB.
 
Pick 100 random items in your house and look and see where they are made. I dare say you will see more made in China than those made in any country in Europe ... unless you are maybe a college student and love Ikea furniture.
 
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