Zone1 What about textiles in America ???

[beagle9]

If we are truly looking to restore industry in America, and we want to begin to attempt to reinvigorate the hardworking lower to middle class workforces in America, then why not look back into returning our Textile industry to it's former glory, otherwise an industry that employed hundreds of thousands or Americans, and especially women in America ??

If we are so smart and efficient, then how did we bankrupt a huge part of our textile industry that employed thousands in this country through outsourcing for the benefit of an elite few ???



And the bleeding just continues..

What's scary is that we just moved our industries into countries that don't mind abusing it's citizen worker's for the greed of their American investors. It's truly been a shameful thing for what has transpired over the last 46 year's in this countries manufacturing sectors.

 

[alang1216]

If we are truly looking to restore industry in America, and we want to begin to attempt to reinvigorate the hardworking lower to middle class workforces in America, then why not look back into returning our Textile industry to it's former glory, otherwise an industry that employed hundreds of thousands or Americans, and especially women in America ??

If we are so smart and efficient, then how did we bankrupt a huge part of our textile industry that employed thousands in this country through outsourcing for the benefit of an elite few ???



And the bleeding just continues..

What's scary is that we just moved our industries into countries that don't mind abusing it's citizen worker's for the greed of their American investors. It's truly been a shameful thing for what has transpired over the last 46 year's in this countries manufacturing sectors.

We can force industries to relocate back to the US but we can't go back in time.

Any factory that is built today will be highly automated so few workers will be needed.

 

[Winston]

If we are truly looking to restore industry in America, and we want to begin to attempt to reinvigorate the hardworking lower to middle class workforces in America, then why not look back into returning our Textile industry to it's former glory, otherwise an industry that employed hundreds of thousands or Americans, and especially women in America ??

If we are so smart and efficient, then how did we bankrupt a huge part of our textile industry that employed thousands in this country through outsourcing for the benefit of an elite few ???



And the bleeding just continues..

What's scary is that we just moved our industries into countries that don't mind abusing it's citizen worker's for the greed of their American investors. It's truly been a shameful thing for what has transpired over the last 46 year's in this countries manufacturing sectors.

For real? Textiles?

Look. I get it. It was flippin beautiful. Softball games twice a week in the Summer. Women leagues even, Mom played. It is the 60's. It is a Mill Town. What a town of a couple thousand people, state of the art rec center, olympic pool, two indoor basketball courts, four, count them, four baseball fields. I mean it was a real town, with a real downtown, independent hardware store, haberdashery, furniture store, women's boutique. It was REAL.

Entire communities were built around the mill. And I still love a shotgun Mill House. Nothing like it. But don't kid yourself. It was a hard ass life, and the pay sucked. I have seen pensions of sixty, seventy dollars a month. Insulting. These people gave their life to the mill. And yes, back in the day, it paid off. They built better life for their children. But that is not coming back.

 

[beagle9]

We can force industries to relocate back to the US but we can't go back in time.

Any factory that is built today will be highly automated so few workers will be needed.

Any American jobs are cherished and needed. Not sure how this nation thinks that it can somehow control the world with a rag tag bunch of feminist men and homeless people, otherwise if the world rejects being controlled by such types.

 

[beagle9]

For real? Textiles?

Look. I get it. It was flippin beautiful. Softball games twice a week in the Summer. Women leagues even, Mom played. It is the 60's. It is a Mill Town. What a town of a couple thousand people, state of the art rec center, olympic pool, two indoor basketball courts, four, count them, four baseball fields. I mean it was a real town, with a real downtown, independent hardware store, haberdashery, furniture store, women's boutique. It was REAL.

Entire communities were built around the mill. And I still love a shotgun Mill House. Nothing like it. But don't kid yourself. It was a hard ass life, and the pay sucked. I have seen pensions of sixty, seventy dollars a month. Insulting. These people gave their life to the mill. And yes, back in the day, it paid off. They built better life for their children. But that is not coming back.

Times have changed, and the textile industry should change with it of course, but if restored, then the same stability should follow (minus the bad pay and benefits), that were stolen by the same robber barons that sent the industry abroad so they could be evil corrupt POC operating out of sight of the American workforces they had screwed over.

 

[initforme]

Pay american citizens at least 2.5x the global rate for the same product.

 

[g5000]

If we are truly looking to restore industry in America, and we want to begin to attempt to reinvigorate the hardworking lower to middle class workforces in America, then why not look back into returning our Textile industry to it's former glory, otherwise an industry that employed hundreds of thousands or Americans, and especially women in America ??

If we are so smart and efficient, then how did we bankrupt a huge part of our textile industry that employed thousands in this country through outsourcing for the benefit of an elite few ???

That would be a huge backward step. Why should we pay a US textile worker 25 dollars an hour to make T-shirts that a Bangladeshi will do for 1 dollar a day?

The lives of the Bangladeshis are vastly improved by this arrangement and we get cheap T-shirts.

Also, most of the manufacturing jobs that have disappeared in the past few decades were automated out of existence. A politicians is lying through his fat teeth when he tells you he will bring those jobs back.

We need to be educating our children for the jobs of tomorrow, not the jobs of yesterday.

Clamoring to bring back low-tech jobs is just stupid, stupid, stupid.

That's how America has always maintained it's edge. Through innovation and always moving forward, not backward.

 

[beagle9]

That would be a huge backward step. Why should we pay a US textile worker 25 dollars an hour to make T-shirts that a Bangladeshi will do for 1 dollar a day?

The lives of the Bangladeshis are vastly improved by this arrangement and we get cheap T-shirts.

Also, most of the manufacturing jobs that have disappeared in the past few decades were automated out of existence. A politicians is lying through his fat teeth when he tells you he will bring those jobs back.

We need to be educating our children for the jobs of tomorrow, not the jobs of yesterday.

Clamoring to bring back low-tech jobs is just stupid, stupid, stupid.

That's how America has always maintained it's edge. Through innovation and always moving forward, not backward.

Oh BS..... If we were so smart that we automated the industry to the point that it no longer needed the vast amount of laborers it had in the past, then why are we dependent upon sweatshop child labor (in many cases), to keep us showered in cheap T's and other such textile products that our no good lazy aces just want to click our phone's to order the chit off of Amazon etc ??????

No, "something is very rotten in Denmark" and we know the score.

It somehow betters the lives of the Bangladeshies eh ??? That's hilarious... To hell with American laborers and their families securities eh ?? Is that how the Indian mafia is here in the United States buying up hotel chains and convenience store's like mad men ever since the early 80's now ????

 

[beagle9]

Pay american citizens at least 2.5x the global rate for the same product.

We just need to stop empowering the world at our own citizen's and national securities expense. We have allowed (due to greed), this nation's citizen's and families to be weakened tremendously since the early 1980s.

 

[alang1216]

We can force industries to relocate back to the US but we can't go back in time.

Any American jobs are cherished and needed. Not sure how this nation thinks that it can somehow control the world with a rag tag bunch of feminist men and homeless people, otherwise if the world rejects being controlled by such types.

My grandmother could have been in the photo but it was not what I wanted for my daughter. As for controlling the world, that is another concept that we should abhor as we do Hitler and Tojo.

 

[Sparker]

Ships that bring imports use fuel. Automation uses fuel. When we run out of oil and coal, we won't have diesel ships or automation. We might have a little bit of hydro and wind electricity, not enough for all the current luxuries we demand as necessities. We will be making all of our clothes here. Doing more of that now could save some fuel.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

It's nowhere near what it was
In the nineties was the last roar or gasp

There's Mills still around large and small but it's nowhere near what it was

 

[beagle9]

Ships that bring imports use fuel. Automation uses fuel. When we run out of oil and coal, we won't have diesel ships or automation. We might have a little bit of hydro and wind electricity, not enough for all the current luxuries we demand as necessities. We will be making all of our clothes here. Doing more of that now could save some fuel.

What's sad is seeing what it cost in ships, ports, infrastructure, and man power to bring that product from afar like that, and then me thinking about how cheap the actual laborer is working in slave like communist conditions in order to make it still worth while for the entire trade route to be sustainable on cost effectiveness and profitability. The prize is for us to receive our cheap Walmart product's for pennies on the dollar. Think about how evil this BS is.