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Who destroyed businesses in the USA, it certainly was not liberals


Cheaper than any American could work for and pay the landlord.

It was like $5/day for a fourteen hour day for semiskilled labor when they shipped our jobs over. So about eight workers for what a minimum wage earner made. A small factory's worth. And for six hours more a day too, each.

Unions had exactly zero to do with it.
 
It's neither liberals or conservatives that are to blame for factory outsourcing, for that, you can blame the invention of these:

Where did you get your information which is partially correct and mostly wrong.

As has happened so many times in the past few centuries, the container "evolution" occurred more as a result of political moves such as the Kennedy-Reagan TL tarrif deregulation to minimize Teamsters power.

On top of that, market forces and technology advances initiated major changes in logistical pipelines- the growth of the LTL market with UPS and then FedEx replacing the old Railway Express.

Cap all of this with OPEC, long lines at the gas stations, uncaptured costs in the transportation chain and manufacturing based efficiencies due to CADCAM and computer based accounting systems.

This is a simple and fast answer to a very complex manufacturing, inventory and accounting evolution.
 

Deregulation has nothing to do with it. Do you honestly think that US regulations would have prevented the rest of the world from moving to global supply chains?
 
Deregulation has nothing to do with it. Do you honestly think that US regulations would have prevented the rest of the world from moving to global supply chains?

Hell Yes!!!

The US was the world leader in all things as the western world continued to recover from WWII and the realignment of the old colonial world while the USSR continued to economically implode. No other nation was even close in terms of quality products and technological advancements.

Also - I can tell you never figured out or paid a tariff in the pre-PC days when IBM MAPICS and COPICS ruled over the technological world and truckers ruled the roads - check out when the truckers shut down the nation during the 1973 oil crisis - after this, the growing and very threatening power of the teamsters led to dereg and the end of tariffs around 1980. By the way, the Democrats are responsible for dereg which killed the teamsters.
 

This is utter nonsense. You are right that in the wake of WW2, we led the world in manufacturing and technology, but that lead started to evaporate by the 70s. The opening of China and it moving to "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"- their term for economic liberalization - made it inevitable that they would become the world's factory, moreover, that they would eventually lead the world in terms of innovation (which is quickly coming to fruition). By the early 70s, Japan was already producing better products in many areas than we were. Even to this day, if you want a vehicle that will last you half your life or more, you buy a Toyota - particularly a Toyota Tacoma.
 
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