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<blockquote data-quote="Jroo" data-source="post: 7928951" data-attributes="member: 574112"><p>Industry and manufacturing jobs are never coming back to the states. We can’t compete with the prices they produce things and we have to be honest, the American worker is not going to work at those wages. I work in mortgage and we had homes that were in foreclosure because of Chinese drywall issues. Huge issue and back and forth litigation for years. In my head as this was going on, I kept thinking why the hell are we building homes in the US with Chinese drywall. My thinking was nowhere in the states was producing cheap drywall. I asked some of the lawyers and they basically said very few US companies could produce it at those prices. The builders were seeing the price which affects their bottom line and opt to use foreign materials. The companies that could produce it cheaply can’t find American workers that would take the wage necessary to produce it at those prices.</p><p></p><p>My dad was looking at getting his roof on the house done last year. He got quotes from legit contractors/companies and they shade tree and foreign/Mexican labor. In almost every case, the materials were the same and in many cases bought from the same place. The main difference was what people charged for their labor. The foreign and Mexican guys killed everyone else on price. It wasn’t even close in some cases. My dad is old school and wanted to give the work to local guys but couldn’t. He would show the offers he had and the contractors would basically say, I’m not going to work that cheap” and would roll out. Remember the difference was labor. To add injury to insult, the foreign guys would also have the job done faster than the other guys.</p><p></p><p>I also find it laughable that some of the issues this country faces took decades to create. You literally have years and years of policy both internationally and stateside that shaped the country you live in today. You have people that thought a president would fix them in 4 years. **** near crazy. Most presidents even say that you never see the impact of their policy until after then left office. Great example is the Bush tax cuts that have major impact on the cliff we are facing today. Those were set in place **** near 10 years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jroo, post: 7928951, member: 574112"] Industry and manufacturing jobs are never coming back to the states. We can’t compete with the prices they produce things and we have to be honest, the American worker is not going to work at those wages. I work in mortgage and we had homes that were in foreclosure because of Chinese drywall issues. Huge issue and back and forth litigation for years. In my head as this was going on, I kept thinking why the hell are we building homes in the US with Chinese drywall. My thinking was nowhere in the states was producing cheap drywall. I asked some of the lawyers and they basically said very few US companies could produce it at those prices. The builders were seeing the price which affects their bottom line and opt to use foreign materials. The companies that could produce it cheaply can’t find American workers that would take the wage necessary to produce it at those prices. My dad was looking at getting his roof on the house done last year. He got quotes from legit contractors/companies and they shade tree and foreign/Mexican labor. In almost every case, the materials were the same and in many cases bought from the same place. The main difference was what people charged for their labor. The foreign and Mexican guys killed everyone else on price. It wasn’t even close in some cases. My dad is old school and wanted to give the work to local guys but couldn’t. He would show the offers he had and the contractors would basically say, I’m not going to work that cheap” and would roll out. Remember the difference was labor. To add injury to insult, the foreign guys would also have the job done faster than the other guys. I also find it laughable that some of the issues this country faces took decades to create. You literally have years and years of policy both internationally and stateside that shaped the country you live in today. You have people that thought a president would fix them in 4 years. **** near crazy. Most presidents even say that you never see the impact of their policy until after then left office. Great example is the Bush tax cuts that have major impact on the cliff we are facing today. Those were set in place **** near 10 years ago. [/QUOTE]
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