Then they'll have to accept the natural rate of pay for those types of jobs or get comfortable doing something else.
Why are those jobs "better" Dave? First of all, let me say that the plumber and electrician jobs require more skills, so they ought to pay better. But the second thing is that the plumber and electrician jobs are local service jobs. The manufactured stuff is for more than the local area. You're not going to export the services outside the local area. But you're going to have to export the manufactured products outside the local area.
That means the local wages for manufacturing must be determined by what people in the other towns, states, and countries make. Light assembly work isn't worth much because this skills required are low.
I agree with what you're saying as far as value but that's no proof you need manufacturing. You need something - anything will do - that you can export.
Not true anymore. Modern weapons systems cost a lot of money and so are bought in small numbers. In a modern war, a country will win or lose with the equipment it started with. It can't lose large amounts of equipment in the beginning, and then build its way to victory.
Even on the low end... what's a Humvee cost versus an old Jeep? Look at the more expensive stuff. And look at the high end. During WWII, the US built over 10,000 B17s. They were obsolete by the end of the war and were scrapped. But the entire run of B52s was fewer than 800 units and they're still in use 50 years later. The intimal run of B2s was a mere 20 units. Modern military weapons system are low production items, hugely expensive, and virtually handbuilt, in small numbers, and are not suitable for mass production. So you don't need mass production factories.
Nationalize the transplant auto plants. Gee.
Embargoes hurt the embargoing country. Nobody can do that for very long.
No, it doesn't matter what you sell to someone else as long as you sell something you can make money on. But you can't make money on manufacturing the types of stuff you want to manufacture at the wages you want to pay.
Battleships have been obsolete for their primary role since the late
1930s. Why do you care whether you can build them or not?So much for ISO 2000!
I'm just sure that a Stradivarius is a high volume sales item and essential to national defense.
No its not. That's why worldside wages are lower than what you want to pay.
No its doesn't. That's why natural wages for this work are lower than what you want to pay.
Then people had better adapt to reality.
You don't get that by subsidizing the types of work that **used** to be high paying jobs.
No its not, because those jobs don't pay anymore.
And so you shouldn't pay those people like they're doctors, etc.
Well, two points we agree on!
Headstart? Let's just look at GM. They've had 50 years to figure out how to build a small car. They tried the Corvair. It sold well for a couple of years then bombed. Don't blame Nadar. Go drive one.
Ten years later they tried the Vega. Nice looking, very heavy, cramped, and had a rattlely engine that toasted itself. Then we have the Chevette, which was an old European design modified for the US and was rear wheel drive. VW was already selling a roomier front drive car in the US, Chrysler had the similar layout Omni/Horizon two years later, Ford had the similar layout Escort three years after that, and GM **never did** build a small front drive car in the US. It then started buying its small cars from Suzuki etc and stuck its name on them.
Auto safety is not harder for large cars/trucks. All crash tests except one are performed against the vehicle's own weight, making vehicle size irrelevant. The side impact standard is against a fixed weight and so is more difficult for smaller cars.
Same old story that you're not going to give up on.
Which have been met successfully by the transplants.>have had a growing consumer manufacturing industry, too. But the greens were
Of what you've mentioned only air bags are required. You have bad info.
Do you know that large engines would have never had a chance to survive except by an interesting twist that in their natural state they burn cleaner than small engines? Has to do with the ratio of surface area to volume in the cylinders being lower. (And the reason the rotary engine is such a gross polluter in its natural state.)
Baloney. Aircraft and tanks have nothing to do with defending the US against terrorists.
If you want to defeat terror, you're gong to have to stop being afraid. Its the only way.
Terrorists never could destroy the US by their actions. Only Americans, by their reaction, could. Thank you President Bush!