[citation][nom]sundragon[/nom]Like Buick, it's considered a luxury brand in China - Kudos to American cars having Mercedes/BMW status there[/citation]
how many chinese can afford to buy them as well as have a place to park those boats? about as many of them as of us that can afford our own learjet.
[citation][nom]Wisecracker[/nom]Psssst ....Don't let silly things like facts get in the way of your rant. Jan 1, 2001, Manufacturing Jobs: 17+ millionJan 1, 2009, Manufacturing Jobs: 12 millionSince the end of the Great Recession, manufacturing jobs have returned to a near total of 12 million in the United States after bottoming at 11.46 million according to the Bureau of Labor StatisticsThanks for playing![/citation]
i love this chart, it perfectly displays how many jobs were lost due to pot smoker 'slippery willy' clinton's sponsorship of china into the WTO and PNTR with China trade deal he made as his final year of presidency. a 2 million job exodse in the first 2 years alone!
another thing i love about this jobs chart is it doesn't show where the jobs pay rates have shifted as most of the jobs are now at burger flipping wages of $11,000-$17,000 instead of the good paying jobs of $30,000-$50,000.
the department of labor is saying that 90% of the jobs in manufacturing and warehousing will be robotic systems maintenance as they expect most of the work force to be replaced by robots by 2020.
it's too bad this chart doesn't extend back 30 years or to a few years before NAFTA when you can see the 2 million job loss from that trade deal.
that chart only shows that trend as there are over 4 million less jobs from the beginning of the chart to the end and is consistent with the decline of jobs in the same field in china for the same reasons. foxconn is a prime example as most working age chinese are already contracted and factories are having to automate more and more of their processes. also the labor departments unemployment records show no unemployment erasure in those 250,000 so called new jobs vs IRS figures that show a continuing and alarming trend of the growth of long term unemployed and mass decline is america tax payers as well as CBO figures which show more of the people that were claiming unemployment were going off unemployment because they no longer qualified for unemployment benefits. 12,310,XXX on unemployment still and 22,38X,XXX actual unemployed people exempt from paying taxes due to lack of jobs. there are only 113,XXX,XXX tax payers for 2012 on the books supporting a population of 315,XXX,XXX. now you know why NObamacare was forced on you, the government is broke and can't afford the $773,XXX,XXX in payments it had for 2012 let alone the $16,177,XXX,XXX,XXX trillion in social security it will have to pay in which surprise surprise president johnson authorized congress to use to spend on other things and is now an empty account full of Congress OWE U's. medicaid is in $21.4 trillion liability owed to it. medicare is an $85.12 trillion dollar liability. total payments for both medicaid and medicare for 2012 totaled over $2.4 trillion dollars.
and to top it off 1/2 of the 113 million work force is retiring in the next 10 years (the baby boomer generation).
who is going to pay for all of that!
the jobs that won't be eliminated by robots will be filled by people who aren't being paid as much as the boomer who retired, and with the work ethic i see most americans have today it's going to take 2 or 3 to replace that boomer which no sane company is going to spend 3 times as much on getting the job one person used to do done. from what i have seen companies are consolidating 3 jobs into 1 instead unless they can outsource the work to some place and somebody who will do it for 1/3 or less of the cost as the 1 american. also the home foreclosure rate is growing over the record setting 1 million foreclosures of 2011. 2013 the foreclosure rate has increased over 2012 which was record setting and official totals are still being tallied.
as far as what NObama says and what he does are two different things. his actions have always been duplicitous of his words. he congratulated apple for climbing to the top of most valuable company as the perfect example of american corporate success. the only thing apple has in america is it's headquarters with only the highest executive offices.
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