Comments on: There Will Be No Trade War http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/09/there-will-be-no-trade-war/ USW Fighting Globally For Workers' Dignity Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:09:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: gspencer http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/09/there-will-be-no-trade-war/comment-page-1/#comment-176 gspencer Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:34:14 +0000 http://blog.usw.org/?p=1167#comment-176 This 35% import tariff on tires is good for additional government revenue, but this tariff needs to be high enough across the board for all products to cover the additional environmental, labor costs, and now the new manufacturing plant construction, that are required to relocate jobs back to the USA. The tire manufacturing equipment and facilities will now have to be re-constructed and/or purchased back from foreigners since foreigners have bought most of the existing tire manufacturing equipment and shipped it to their home country. It is not the Chinese that are to blame, it is both political parties of the US Government who passed the "free trade legislation". The tire manufacturing jobs will remain in China until the import tarriffs are greatly increased. This is true for most every other job that has been lost by our environmental and free trade legislation. The "Cap and Trade" legislation will cause all of our petrochemical jobs (here in Houston) to be relocated offshore. The US International Trade Deficit must be corrected by any means possible! This is the basic structural economic foundation problem that will destroy the US economy. The USA has lost the World Technology Leadership! The USA must change the emphasis of our education systems back to technology and science if the USA wants to compete in the technology competition. The USA is Bankrupt! The USA is selling our privately owned land and other privately owned assets that were created by previous generations in order to pay for imported products (rather than have US citizens work to produce the things that we consume) and also to pay for growing US government expenses that are in excess of our federal tax collections. When the USA has no more privately owned land and other assets to sell to foreigners in industrialized countries in exchange for freshly printed US T-Bills, Bonds, or other Securities (instead of Gold), those foreigners will not buy more of our freshly printed US T-Bills, Bonds, or other Securities and we will not be able to generate any US dollars to pay for our US government expenses and/or our imported consumer products. Thank you President Obama for this tariff. Please increase it to 500% or whatever is necessary to recreate the tire manufacturing jobs, then address all of the products that we employ foreigners in foreign countries to produce for our consumption. This 35% import tariff on tires is good for additional government revenue, but this tariff needs to be high enough across the board for all products to cover the additional environmental, labor costs, and now the new manufacturing plant construction, that are required to relocate jobs back to the USA. The tire manufacturing equipment and facilities will now have to be re-constructed and/or purchased back from foreigners since foreigners have bought most of the existing tire manufacturing equipment and shipped it to their home country.

It is not the Chinese that are to blame, it is both political parties of the US Government who passed the “free trade legislation”.

The tire manufacturing jobs will remain in China until the import tarriffs are greatly increased. This is true for most every other job that has been lost by our environmental and free trade legislation.

The “Cap and Trade” legislation will cause all of our petrochemical jobs (here in Houston) to be relocated offshore.

The US International Trade Deficit must be corrected by any means possible! This is the basic structural economic foundation problem that will destroy the US economy.

The USA has lost the World Technology Leadership! The USA must change the emphasis of our education systems back to technology and science if the USA wants to compete in the technology competition.

The USA is Bankrupt! The USA is selling our privately owned land and other privately owned assets that were created by previous generations in order to pay for imported products (rather than have US citizens work to produce the things that we consume) and also to pay for growing US government expenses that are in excess of our federal tax collections.

When the USA has no more privately owned land and other assets to sell to foreigners in industrialized countries in exchange for freshly printed US T-Bills, Bonds, or other Securities (instead of Gold), those foreigners will not buy more of our freshly printed US T-Bills, Bonds, or other Securities and we will not be able to generate any US dollars to pay for our US government expenses and/or our imported consumer products.

Thank you President Obama for this tariff. Please increase it to 500% or whatever is necessary to recreate the tire manufacturing jobs, then address all of the products that we employ foreigners in foreign countries to produce for our consumption.

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