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Posted By engineer 2 weeks, 3 days ago in NewsBeijing criticized Washington for imposing anti-dumping duties on Chinese-made steel pipes and added to trade tensions by launching a probe of imported U.S. autos.
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Demzon2 weeks, 3 days ago
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Yes and no. Yes more jobs will be needed to provide those resources, but at the same time prices will go up for those resources and items. Mostly this is due to the over-paid for production workers in Union shops; of which steel workers have. I have worked in a few union shops in the past and was always amazed at how much people would complain when they didn't get a raise by the calendar date though they spent much of their time doing the least that they could.
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Before someone complains that I am anti-union; I'm not. I just would rather that the unions in the US were still serving a purpose as they did in the past. Currently the only thing I see them doing is ordering a strike for higher wages when the company is near failure; ordering a strike when a store chain offers part-time employees that chance to buy benefits at full price; and in the end driving up labor cost and thus end consumer costs. If the Union leaders would find some true concern for the worker and less for their own pay, then I would agree totally that more local jobs and less from China would be good; that is not the case unfortunately at this time.
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rwrnae2 weeks, 2 days ago
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Going to be hard to do. For the last several decades you've had nothing but liberal arts majors and dropouts. China and India graduate more engineers than the US graduates in total. 75% of the applicants to the military can't qualify either due to poor physical condition, lack of education or drug/criminal issues. Not a great base to build from.
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rwrnae2 weeks, 2 days ago
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Well that would be nice but I don't see it happening. My son is a graduate student and TA at a US University. He says the knowledge level of the kids is abysmal. I thought it was bad when I was in the same position in the 70's but it seems math/science skills are lower than ever. What do you expect in a country where engineers and scientists are considered eggheads or nerds, where it is uncool to do anything remotely connected to deep thinking? The good news is those of us with the technical educations are in the drivers seat but many of the best opportunities are outside the country. Meanwhile kids in the US continue to "Twitter" their lives away.
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calitennflo2 weeks, 3 days ago
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Tariffs are very similar to embargos, as they both restrict commerce...and in cases like this...both suffer the conclusions...that is what congress says it does...manage commerce.Plus...it seems tyo be the excuse for using a currency.
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Congress has done well in our country...as a very similar home costs different prices from one end to the other end...yet it is the same dollar bill. -
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rsweet4102 weeks, 2 days ago
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We should also send back all the Chinese illegal aliens and any illegal aliens to their countries, They take jobs away from Americans. They work for cheap and some US business owners take advantage of these workers who work for pennies. They work of the books and don't pay their taxes and you have 10 people or more living in an overcrowded apartment.
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Increase tarffss on anything printed in China. I worked in the Printing Industry in the USA and
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