No fairy tales FACTS my friend, HARD unpalatable hard facts to digest .
Americans
like cheap.
Remember the word here
"CHEAP"!
Now ever more likely to be
cheap because they have meager wages that just about cover accommodation, & health care about 50% of average American family budgets and food a more or less constant 10% over the past 20 years . Consequently there is not much left in the family budget to buy anything nice and made in the USA.
Because of
cheap labor we still enjoy cheap milk by the gallon, at about $2,60.
Because of
cheap labor we enjoy
cheap chicken food based products at ridiculously low prices.
i could go on but the plain fact is that large US industry and Commerce want
cheap out sourced labor mostly from China, and furthermore much of the clothing on the backs of most Americans is
cheap shoddily made disposable garments imported from 3rd world countries like Bangladesh & Vietnam to name a few!.
All to the deference of the American worker !
I am going to state here and now that US Commerce and Big industry together with successive Government of both reflections over the past 20 to 30 years have collectively broken that unwritten social contact between Western democracies have with their respective populations.
Furthermost the US Gov of successive reflections have allowed US Corporations to pay no tax on their huge profits by engaging in ghost offshore company practices and slick tax avoidance schemes which have robbed the US population of Corporate tax treasuries for investment within US Population as whole. The winners are the big US Corporation obsessed with stock market rates which you warble about on about on a daily basis.
The country has "given away the farm" to outside competition and shared with China intellectual property & manufacturing secrets/techniques just like the Europeans did with the USA in the 19 century. No lessons learned.
Nowadays the Chinese economy is about 44 trillion dollars.
And to answer my questions I posed to you which you ether can't or don't want answer !
The biggest customer for Italian provenance fashion products is the Chinese middle class !
By comparison American buyer of such products is the preference to buy CHEAP Chinese knock offs or self claimer US designer products made in China like that Tory Burch fashion line sold in Dillards & Nieman Marcus at between $150 to $250 but sourced for about $3,00 a pop in China.
Why did The New England Shirt Company go bust?
,American men won't spend $150 on a decent shirt! You all want CHEAP disposable clothing that won't last! Meanwhile the rest of the world want such products like Emma Willis stuff at $400 for a shirt and once again who can't get enough are Chinese middle class men.
Made in America is expensive? Hmm !
So I will pose yet another question.
While at Dillards look at the Brahmin brand.
Would YOU buy this at about $500 or the same style cheapo knock off from Walmart at $25?
https://www.dillards.com/p/brahmin-duxbury-duffle-bag/508547981
Info
Made in the USA !
https://www.brahmin.com/our-story.html
Finally
A closing paragraph or two.
I see that Trump has closed entry of Nigerians to the USA, the biggest and wealthiest African country labeled a $hithole country which has vast commercial potential.
Its curious that successive America politicians of both reflections from Clinton to fast arsed Pompeo open their landing speeches on landing with a same old hoary topic calling for eradication of corruption in Africa.
No other country does that! They want to do business in Africa
AND who does the most business in Africa?
Well the Chinese yes the Chinese of course.
Its represents only about 200 million dollars of business China for the whole Continent
Its time for some of these gammon faced US politicians & presidential hot shots to look inwards first at corruption and then outwards as long term plans not the 90 day American typical business forecasts trying to make a fast buck and boost stock prices
Think about it.
Its important to get the right leader in Washington or do we have the same old wall of gammon squabbling & mired in party politics.
Dennis
