America Last - Ford now considering moving $1B truck plant expansion to Mexico

[Invisible Man]

The idea of comparative advantage is that each country makes stuff that they are good at and then you trade and everyone is better off. But that's not what's happening in general in the US. Because of our bloated government we're at a disadvantage making just about everything.

I doubt that.

However, more importantly, one country could be at a disadvantage of making everything, but it would still have comparative advantages in making some things in comparison to others, and it would still benefit by focusing on those things (even if it's worse at making them than every other country in the world) and trade for the things that it's even worse at making than those. Comparative advantage doesn't mean better at making something than another country is.

 

[Invisible Man]

So Americans can buy Fords through government funding of Basic Income? Because unless you have a job and that pays, well...Awesome! Gimme mine now!

There are infinitely many jobs to do. It's not like having Mexicans build more trucks results in Americans having fewer opportunities to better themselves through work.

Some of you guys sound like these South Park people.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Some of you guys sound like these South Park people.

The South Park people are right.

That's why the system has to portray them as a bunch of half witted "deplorables".

They did "terk our jerbs".

And a man who has no job, no skill, and is told is worthless from day one, will consequently rise no higher than that standard.

And there is one of the primary reasons why drug overdoses are the number one cause of death for adults aged 18-45.

And it affects men two to one.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/611012/number-of-drug-overdose-deaths-in-the-us-by-gender/

 

[Invisible Man]

They did "terk our jerbs".

And yet, we never seem to have any fewer jobs left for ourselves. No matter how much work anybody does, the amount left to do just never runs out.

 

[Anti Federalist]

And yet, we never seem to have any fewer jobs left for ourselves. No matter how much work anybody does, the amount left to do just never runs out.

If good paying, middle class, value added jobs are falling out of the sky all across the global fruited plain because of outsourced work like Ford's, then why have 2 million people this year alone risked life and limb to invade the US through the southern border?

 

[Madison320]

I doubt that.

However, more importantly, one country could be at a disadvantage of making everything, but it would still have comparative advantages in making some things in comparison to others, and it would still benefit by focusing on those things (even if it's worse at making them than every other country in the world) and trade for the things that it's even worse at making than those. Comparative advantage doesn't mean better at making something than another country is.

If you're at a disadvantage at everything like we are, normally you'd have a really low standard of living. The reason we don't is because we have the world's reserve currency and we are abusing the hell out of it. We're living way above our productivity level and it is unsustainable. I don't see how you could disagree with that given our trade deficits and the amount of money we have to print every year. The first cracks are starting to show in the rise in prices.

Don't confuse me with the "America First Tariff" crowd. When businesses start fleeing the country I think there are 3 reactions. One is to ignore it and say it's a good thing. Another is to recognize it's a problem and use big government to force a solution. The third reaction is to recognize it's a problem and the cause is big government and the solution is to shrink it.

Don't you think our government is too big and that's it's a burden on businesses?

 

[RJB]

There are infinitely many jobs to do. It's not like having Mexicans build more trucks results in Americans having fewer opportunities to better themselves through work.

Some of you guys sound like these South Park people.

That's really fucking hilarious. People concerned about how they are going to feed their families.

When you are sitting in the hot tub in the faculty lounge passing the joint around to your fellow tenured professors, is that how you stereotype those who make your car?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

So Americans can buy Fords through government funding of Basic Income? Because unless you have a job and that pays, well...Awesome! Gimme mine now!

UBI? Welfare? EBT? Stimulus? Nah, that doesn't have any effect. It's an incredible market advantage to outsource the manufacturing of the trucks to another nation, and then pay all of the people who would have built it here to sit at home, play video games, and abuse drugs. You just don't understand economics.

There are infinitely many jobs to do. It's not like having Mexicans build more trucks results in Americans having fewer opportunities to better themselves through work.

Some of you guys sound like these South Park people.

Guess what you sound like?

The South Park people are right.

That's why the system has to portray them as a bunch of half witted "deplorables".
...

Not only that, they must have run out of diversity pens that day when drawing that episode. No BIPOCs, no women either.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Not only that, they must have run out of diversity pens that day when drawing that episode. No BIPOCs, no women either.

Well, I'll be dipped...you're right.

Only white men can be portrayed as buck toothed, half witted troglodytes.

 

[RJB]

Well, I'll be dipped...you're right.

Only white men can be portrayed as buck toothed, half witted troglodytes.

And they are looked down upon because they have they stupid audacity to put in a hard day's work, day after day.

I usually try to be respectful, but Invisible Man is so insulting with these posts. He isn't talking policy. He is just mocking the backbone of this nation.