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Walmart imports from China cost 400,000 jobs

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2017 in Politics
Here is how America Leaders rewards it's citizens who fought Communism in the 1950's & 1960's! Lobbyist with big campaign money brought in The International corporations and did free trade deals,foreign aid,bailouts,illegal immigrants,tremendous trade imbalance debt & illegal aliens with an unstable stock market by overturning The Glass?Steagall Act.

Where is Trump helping the middle class now? Nothing but service jobs with a little construction job growth! The average high school graduate does not have any decent paying manufacturing jobs and Trump is not delivering on his campaign promises!


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/15/donald-trumps-manufacturing-jobs-promise-hard-to-k/


President Trump made boosting manufacturing the centerpiece of his economic agenda, vowing to revitalize blue-collar America, but factories just aren?t what they used to be, and the notion of ?good-paying? manufacturing jobs that connect high school graduates to the middle class is quickly becoming a myth.


serf

http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/09/news/companies/walmart-jobs-china-imports/index.html

"Walmart has aided China's abuse of labor rights and its violations of internationally recognized norms of fair trade by providing a vast and ever-expanding conduit for the distribution of artificially cheap and subsidized Chinese exports to the United States," the report said.

Walmart doesn't disclose the volume of Chinese imports that it sells. EPI says said it estimated Walmart's Chinese imports using a variety of statistics, including ocean containers going from China to Walmart, and other trade data.

Comments

  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...its business...nothing more...water seeks its own level...
  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    not when you give the importer special dispensation...that creates a flood over the dike and drowns American enterprise
  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by pwillie
    ...its business...nothing more...water seeks its own level...



    Like IBM helping tracking the Jews for The holocaust or Ford with General Motors doing Business with The Nazi's just seeking the water,don't you think?

    serf
  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,083 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ok, here's the way I see it: China is holding US over a barrel by threatening to buy their ag products elsewhere if we put a tariff on goods imported from China.
    This a false threat as the rest of the world doesn't produce enough food stocks to replace US production.
  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    but Walmart was making a big investment in America labor
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    would you go to work for walmart wages ??? even if you did not have to drive 20 miles to work?
  • droptopdroptop Member Posts: 8,363 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I see walmart is paying $177,000 per year for a software engineer.

    Looks like hourly low is around $9.00 per hour ($18,000 per year)

    Would I drive ? Depends on if I couldn't find a better job with more benefits. Management and higher level jobs are $250,000 +. Probably due to the inability to find qualified people who would work cheaper [:D]

    HOW TO KNOW YOU'RE IN A LOW PAYING JOB
    When you quit and your "boss" begs you to stick around for another week to train your replacement.

    Walmart list:
    https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Walmart/salaries

    another list, 2016 pay increases, probably higher now.
    https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Walmart/salaries
  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    gonna cost AMERICA a hell of a lot more if china puts a thumb on NK Tubby....they will own more of us for their actions
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