The manufacturing jobs are gone and not coming back. The only reason people are doing those jobs at all is because the cost of labor overseas is cheap and the safety requirements are low, meaning cheap. If you raise tariffs enough to make it not affordable to make stuff overseas it will come back to the USA as a highly automated process with a small fraction of the jobs the factory once had.
The only real future in jobs all over the world is in the high tech realm or in the trade jobs. Factory jobs and midlevel white collar jobs are dying.
Nonsense. Trump is going to see that every town blacksmith job and every locomotive fireman job will come back just as soon as he is elected.
Your hyperbole is noted.
Germany has TWICE the level of manufacturing employment we do. Many of those jobs are still there and can come back if we just stop being the world's ***** when it comes to trade.
And Trade jobs are effected by the Law of Supply and Demand too.
Deport the illegals. Limit legal immigration and reduce work visas.
Labor cost in Mexico is 5% of labor costs in the USA. That is why a trainload of new Ford automobiles comes up the Santa Cruz River Valley near my house from Nogales every other night.
Be sure to send me a PM when Trump brings that assembly plant back to the US.
Now that I think about it, that is too ambitious. Just send me an PM when Trump brings his own clothing business back to the US.
It seems that the cost of labor is 10 to 15% of the final cost. If that is correct, then the threatened 50% tariff would indeed, make it economically viable to move the plant back to the US.
Correll, do you even think before you post?
If the US put a tariff on Mexican goods, who pays that tariff? Answer: American consumers pay that tariff, because it is added to the price of the product that is imported to this country for sale. So, instead of Mexico paying for the wall, Americans who buy Fords pay for the wall. The alternative is that fewer Americans buy Fords. Who is hurt by that? Americans who own Ford stock are hurt by that. This is high school economics, Correll. It is no wonder that college educated people do not support Trump. And as for cutting off the flow of money to Mexico, are you aware that hundreds of millions of dollars flow to Mexico from the US under the radar from drug dealing? They found $3,000,000 in a truck 30 miles from here heading to Mexico last month. The legitimate money transactions are a drop in the bucket compared to illegally transmitted money from US to Mexico in drug and gun running. As for Mexican citizens sending money home to their families, the black market would fill that hole in a New York second. For decades, people have been routing money through Latin American countries to Cuba. They would do the same thing to get money to Mexico. or, they can just buy a money order at a bank, and send it by US mail. These simplistic Trump solutions are ludicrous at best, and downright hilarious at worst.