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rdean
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If you are so anti Jobs In China, then the you are a hypocrite if you buy products made in China.
The fact is, consumers in the U.S. have vastly increased purchasing power due to Chinese labor. As much as you decry jobs moving there, you benefit from it.
The real solution is to get rid of the crushing government burden which is destroying economic growth in the U.S. The main way China relates to that is how we are so much indebted to them.
Since you asked it twice, I suspected you thought is was a clever "gotcha" question. I thought I would play along.
The truth is, you can't avoid "buying from China". As you can see from the following article, Republican policies were designed to make us dependent on China. I wonder how much it cost them? The Chinese I mean.
Rare Earths: China's Weapon
Rare earths, also known as "strategic metals," are a number of scarce elements necessary for many contemporary technologies, both military and civilian. Among the products implicated are wind turbines, hybrid cars, night-vision equipment, and radar.
Rare earths are scarce, not because they are not widespread, but because they are not normally found in high enough concentrations to make their exploitation economically feasible.
Over the last decade, China has emerged as the main producer and exporter of these elements, and currently supplies some 97% of world demand. This is a result both of its lower production costs, as well as the stricter regulatory and environmental policies in the United States. One key example is the closure of Mountain Pass Mine in California in 2002.
PanOrient News | Rare Earths: China's Weapon Too Soon
China raised concerns by reducing its export quotas for raw rare earth elements from 2005 through 2009, forcing foreign companies to buy more Chinese-made products containing or manufactured from rare earth elements.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/business/energy-environment/22rare.html?pagewanted=all
Why do I always get the impression the right wing defends anything to do with some corporation making a buck? Even at the expense of THIS country????
You really are dense.
Who cares if we do business with China if we also have our own vibrant economy in which jobs are created?
I thought you Lefties Cared About Humanity. Why shouldn't Chinese Peasants have a chance to have jobs?
Can someone from the right explain to this idiot child? Please?
We can't compete with someone making a hundred dollars a month. Besides, if WE trained them, then they aren't peasants. Unless you are calling Americans who used to do the same jobs "peasants".