Most economic impact--lack of Chinese goods or cheap Mexican labor force?  What's your thought?
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American Corporation has moved their company's over to China for "Cheap Labor," To my understanding doesn't freight cost more to ship over seas, or even on a cargo plane? To me it seems that the Corporations should be loosing money. Then there's "Cheap Labor," Mexicans, Would get paid less then the average Joe, The problem here is pure simple Greed. Greed from the Government for not in forcing laws, and Pure Greed from Corporations. There wallets are getting fatter, while I have no Idea where or if I will have a Job next year?\n\nThe reason Why most Americans won't do the jobs is the number one reason "Cost of Living" Everything has gone up but not our pay. There is no way that we could survive on so little. WE are Americans We would not get any Help From the Government, So therefore; that's is why.
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I think of many things. Sure Chinese food, ancient ruins, also I think of Thailand (a good fiend of mine is from Thailand).\n\nI think of efficiancy.  I think, as a whole, Asians are a bit more efficient in a lot of things.  There are, of course, the cars we drive, "cheap" labor for our US companies (aren't a lot of our jobs moving to China?).\n\nPaper and fireworks - both originating from China.  The terra cotta warriors, art, bonsai trees, chrysanthemums, sushi.\n\nI think of a lot of things, more than I could mention here.
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So far, economic globalization has hampered diversity in several ways around here. \n\nIt's reduced the number of options people in my community have for work. Most of us, no matter what we invested in our education, or what sort of vocational credentials we have, have had to take jobs in the low-paying retail or food-service sector.\n\nAs our wages dropped, so did the amount of taxes we could pay for public services, and so the condition of our neighborhoods has deteriorated badly. Crimes against property, violent crime, and vice crimes, have increased in the area.\n\nThe people who could afford to move have moved out of state to the few places left where they could find high-paying work. I know of several college graduates who've had to move overseas (one moved to India) in order to work in their field of interest.\n\nHuge, cheap, "big-box" retailers, who outsource the production of their goods overseas, have moved into the area and replaced most of the independently-owned shops, because we could no longer afford to purchase quality products from local producers and retailers.\n\nHonestly, I'm a little worried about economic globalization.
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Hey Redd, Do you remember the old TV commercials saying, "this is your brain before drugs and this is your brain after, and then the guy cracks an egg and fries it. The same principle applies here but unfortunately with our country. Our country before Bush jr.; no deficit, race relations were better, international relations better, etc. and after/during Bush.....well you can "look around" and see for yourself. Our country has become the proverbial "fried egg" so to speak. ;)  Oh almost forgot, the economy. I know it was better for me and all those around me BEFORE Bush, Now Bush talks about job growth, that's great if you want a job at Taco Bell or Burger King, but in terms of real growth, it's not happening.
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Outsourcing is the biggest thing killing our economy right now. (US economy that is). \n\nIt is not just a factor of cheap labor. It is the first step in losing all of our big companies. If all the workers are overseas what is the point in having managers here? If all the managers are overseas what is the point in having a board here? People are not just exporting other people's jobs they are exporting whole industries. \n\nA second aspect on this is that we really don't make anything here in the US any more. If all our ports were shut down for even a few months much of America would come to a screaching halt. We would have empty shelves and no replacement parts. So for the last 20 years we've traded on information and technical ability. Both of those are now in dire risk. The slashing of R&D budgets combined with oursourcing means we will literally be out of the information and technology business. Most of the major software in use today started from a programmer who was employed full time writing code for another company. Not by employees of companies like Microsoft who merely steal or buy the software. If these programmers cannot make a living writing code they do not sharpen their coding skills to write the next great inovations in software. The majority of Open source programmers are employed as programmers for companies, some even use some company time on open source projects. So this outsourcing threatens both our comercial and free software markets. If Western programmers are not hacking out code for a living it will be Indian, Chinese and Russian coders writing the next Oracle, the next great game, the next whatever is needed down the road. It is they who will have the expereince and expertise not us. \n\nIT and the net were saviours to our broken economy in the 80s. The 90s we flourished mostly because of an ineffectual series of presidents and the boom in IT. This boom triggered so many ripples in the US economy that many service industries are now coupled to IT and high tech. As the jobs flow overseas these jobs will dry up as well as the information workers creating even less demand for what we still produce here in the US. \n\nAs for tarrifs they have to be enacted now. If we wait another 5 years it will be too late. Too much of our knowledge base will be outside of our control and our talent will have been religated to the dust heap. This is a major ecnomic crisis which severe impacts for everyone in the nation. The tent cities so many have forgotten will return in the near future if we continue to outsource. \n\nIllegal imigrants are a major problem. Nowhere as big as outsourcing. What is happening is that when everybody went to information management it created openings for imigrants in trades and other semi-skilled jobs. So today a night stocker, a construction work are now working for wages dictated by what people can pay illegal imigrants. Our entire wage scale and standard of living is being decimated by the sheer numbers of illegals we have here and the entrenched structure they have built. Once a job falls into Illegal's hands is very difficult for American's to get on those crews. If they do an American cannot live on those wages without living in the poverty ridden life of an illegal. Many displaced information workers looking to return to previous proffesions are no blocked by illegals. The true unemployment rate, not the joke perpetrated by the Gov is rapidly rising. To aggravate this so many that have ducked into education over the last five years will be graduating to deep debt and no jobs. People with handicaps or strikes on their records will become long term unemployable as the compitition has risen so steeply for what jobs exist. Those that lose a job are often looking at 1-2 years of seeking to find a job that pays a fraction of their previous wages and they feel lucky if they find work in their same field. \n\nLegislation and environment are two factors that hurt employmen
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Chief Allies: American Consumers, Iran\nArchenemies: Japan/India\n$50 billion per year of foreign investment, a labor force that survives on $70 a month, has enjoyed a 9% GDP growth for 25 years....all under state controlled pseudo-capitalism, has a spiking fuel addiction, and just inked a $70 billion three-decade natural gas deal with Iran\n\nEconomy: China has an economy so robust that to keep the value of its “Yuan” in check, the People’s Bank of China has been propping up our currency by accumulating American dollars, bonds, and treasuries—about $533 billion at last count.  By keeping the currency undervalued, the Chinese are telling the world, “We can provide you with low-cost goods,” Communism may be nearly dead in all but the name in China, but it survives in the form of one last taboo: the fact that the right of an individual to won agricultural land is tenuous (weak) at best.\n\nProblem: China needs to address the fact that its farmers have missed out on the double-digit growh that has transformed urban China and turned its richest cities into some of the most dynamic in Asia.\n\nProblem: If China decided to drop/dump its dollar reserve on the world currency market, interest rates here could skyrocket, severely damaging our stock and housing markets.  However, that probably won’t happen because China needs American prosperity to continue its growth, and Americans with extra dollars love Chinese imports.  It keeps the Chinese economic juggernaut rolling.
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Probably Mexico, at least I had some fine Cubans when visiting Tijuana. Wonder if the trade embargo will be lifted in my lifetime, isn't it time for this silliness to end.
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China is already an economic superpower \nIt is the no.1 manufacturing destination in the world !\n\nAs far as overall econonomy, China overtaking the USA ... some way to go !!!
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I thought all those who left to work here would be welcomed as heros when they returned home.  But from what I hear that's not  the case.  Millions have left which means more open space, more food, water, jobs and less crime for those who remained.   One Mexican after being deported returned home, was told by his fellowman that he wasn't welcome, they feared he'd take their job.   Does that sound familiar?  He said he'd head for China.
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If welfare was to end tomorrow ..... \n\n-- There Will Be A Short Term Recession (2-3 Years)\nDuring Which Time\n\n-- All ILLEGAL ALIENS (The Majority, Anyway)\n(And SOME Hispanic American Citizens (Immigrants))\nWould Abandon The USA For Their Homelands\n\n-- There Would Be A Slow ( At First ) Economic Stimulation\nAs The Domino Effect Started To Take Place\n\nie :\n \n -- -- Some 40 Billion Dollars Would Remain In The Economy\nDue To The ILLEGAL ALIENS Leaving The Nation\n(No Remittances)\n\n -- -- The Cost Of FUEL Will Drop\nDue To A Decrease In Demand (20 - 30 Million Less Consumers)\n\n -- -- The Union Movement Will Grow\n(See Below - Desperate EMPLOYERS Needing Workers)\n\n -- --Wages Would RISE, \nDue To Desperate EMPLOYERS Needing Workers\nHIGHER Wages Will Be Offered, \nAs Well As INCREASED Benefits, \nand Improved Working Conditions, \nso as to recruit and retain people \nfrom the remaining pool of American workers.\n\n -- -- Unemployed / Under Employed Americans \nWould Return To The Workforce - \nEspecially Housewives And HS Students -\nReducing The Need For Public Assistance \n(Which Ended, According To Your Question)\n\n -- -- the same employers would look for ways \nto eliminate some of the jobs they now are having trouble filling. \nLoosely Translated :\nThere Will Be An Increase \nIn Agricultural And Other Industrial Technologies\n( ie : Robo Pickers, Assemblers, Etc.) \n\n\n\nI Could Continue, But I Won't\n\n\n\nHard To Believe That A Simple Thing \nLike Cutting Off Public Assistance (Welfare)\nCould Have Such A Myriad Of Effects, Isn't It ??\n\n  \n\n\n\nShort Answer :\nAfter The Initial Kick In The Balls\nThe Pain Will Go Away \nAnd The Long Term Effect \nWill Be A Stronger American Economy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThat Said\nKeep In Mind That There Are LEGITIMATE Cases\nWhere People Actually NEED And DESERVE \nPublic Assistance(Welfare)\nie :\nDisabled American Veterans\nElderly Americans\nHandicappers\nEtc.
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Absolutely....do you think mexico would let any of their educated, productive citizens leave?  mexico imports at least 4000 workers from Guatemala to pick crops because "the mexicans are too lazy"!
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Impact of immigration on job growth, economic development\nHealth economics - medicare spending and impact on budget
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I think you are overlooking one major economic aspect. \n\nThere are something like 1.3 billion Chinese. \nFour times the number of people than in USA, within a much smaller geographic area than the USA. If the Chinese consumed resources at the same level those in the USA do, China would quickly collapse from lack of resources. \n\nThe Chinese family unit is also a bit different, in that they avg 1.2 children per household, compared to USA 2.6 kids per household. As such, through inheritance, the next generation of Chinese will be more wealthy than will the next generation of American. Several hundred years ago, it was this same concept of saving and wealth building through inheritance that made Britian that power that it was. \n\nSimplistic econ models that merely look at spending habits are incomplete and moronic, given the rate at which world resources are being consumed. The future will center around sustainable business practices and a much greater degree of consumer responsibility. \n\nBTW, anyone who has written an article that suggests that China is not a global economic power has their head clear up their....
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With the onset of hard economic times in the 1870s, other immigrants and European Americans began to compete for the jobs traditionally reserved for the Chinese. With economic competition came dislike and even racial suspicion and hatred. Such feelings were accompanied by anti-Chinese riots and pressure, especially in California, for the exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the United States. The result of this pressure was the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed by Congress in 1882. This Act virtually ended Chinese immigration for nearly a century. \n\nthese Chinese for the most part were not on planning on staying and they were sending their paychecks home to china \n\n\nand the mexicans send a lot of money back to mexico for the most part i believe most want to stay here permanently even some that have wives and family back in mexico , but i am sure that was in the thoughts of the Chinese in the start to go back home but it eventually boiled into a real problem hey wait kinda sounds familiar ummmmmmmmmmm like now ? should we learn from our past and lets see they like quoting are smart fore fathers bring us your poor ,well eventually they ran into just this problem there is only so many jobs so much room ,so lets  study that one\n\n\n\nto post below sorry honey but you got that wrong you cant eat without us \n\ndont bite the hand that feeds you
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yes, we demand cheaper products, the world ( India, Russia, China ) responds. Eventually the Chinise will make full size pick up trucks that are affordable and durable, kool. the other poster is a MORON in saying buy USA, only if it's good will I buy, it the USA corp's fault for making crappy products to the point that outsiders came in and gave us what we needed, ( cheaper too, but then that's also a UNION problem as well, see GM and the UAW for their headaches ). We used to make the best, ect.. we still do in some catagories, but there is not a USA made company that does not sell / import from abroad ( mainly China ). If you fear being outsourced, then you will, as if you are any good you will be in demand ( same hold true dating / marriage ).
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Washington takes into account what is good for the country, I'm posting some facts here and as you can see, if we were to take harsh measures, many U.S. companies would suffer retaliation and there is a great economic factor that people fail to realize. There has to be more enforcement on illegal immigration but we can't make it a witch hunt without getting into a situation that will affect our economic interests abroad. \n\nLaboring in Mexican factories, they receive a little over $3.00 a day, not nearly enough to maintain an adequate living standard. This alone may not surprise people. What is surprising is that more likely than not, these workers are employed by United States' companies! U.S. and European corporations now have the permission and the technology to locate factories throughout the third world. There they do not have to abide by the wage, safety, or environmental standards that are in effect here. Consequently, people in Mexico and Central America are receiving slave wages to manufacture products such as clothing or automobiles that will be profitably sold in the U.S.\n\nA critic might respond, "True, U.S. companies do pay low wages in Latin American nations. But if those companies were not there, the people would have no jobs, no wages. Therefore, those people should be grateful to have the opportunity to make at least some money." This argument sounds persuasive, but is born from ignorance of the history and extent of U.S. involvement in Latin America. As we shall see, the location of U.S. factories there is only the tip of the iceberg. The story of United States' engagement in Latin America is a long and complicated one.\n\nUntil the 1930s, the Latin American economy was based primarily on exporting raw materials to the industrial nations. But in 1929 the stock market crashed, and the ensuing depression spread to Latin America, which no longer had a strong market for its products. Many Latin American governments therefore embarked on a new economic course, one which seemed the most sensible at the time. Because exportation had proven too fraught with danger, these governments tried to achieve self-sufficiency under an economic plan called import substitution. This involved a state-led effort at economic growth, comprising nationalization of industries, tariffs to protect domestic products, and government investment in infrastructure (Green, Duncan. Silent Revolution: The Rise of Market Economics in Latin America. London: Casell, 1985. ps.15-17). By the 1960s, domestic industry supplied 95% of Mexico's consumer goods.\n\nThe decisive event leading to the current situation originated not in Latin America, however, but in the global community: the oil boom of the early 1970s. With so much new money pouring into the West, banks recklessly gave loans to third world nations, "believing,"in the words of Citicorp chairman Walter Wriston, that "'a country does not go bankrupt' as a private company could" (Green 21).\n\nLatin American nations gladly accepted these loans at good interest rates. Although their program of import substitution had prompted much development, it had also caused lasting inflation, inefficient business practices, and high unemployment. But the loans which seemed like a blessing quickly turned into a burden. At the end of the 1970s the U.S. raised interest rates from the traditional level of between 4 and 6% to over 20% ("Foreign Debt Tribunal - Verdict." Third World Resurgence 107 (July 1999) ps.19-21.) This forced Latin American nations to take out new loans just to pay the interest on the old ones. Something had to give, and in 1982 Mexico announced that it could no longer meet its debt repayments. Other nations followed suit.\n\nLatin America was now broken and vulnerable. Irrevocably in debt to the U.S. and Europe, it needed debt renegotiation and further loans. But with no bargaining power, it was forced to accept the ter
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Nope.\nSoon all manufactoring will be done in Chinese sweatshops and the Chinese government has implemented a 1 kid per family ratio when the demand for cheaper child labour will soon be at an alltime high?\nShesh....