<p>Barrons, it’s not a democrat or republican issue.</p>
<p>I’m not a democrat. ;)</p>
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<p>It’s clear that industry tends to move to where operational costs are lower be it from the USA to China or Mexico, from Japan to Taiwan, or from Taiwan to China. It even happens within the USA with industries moving from California to Arizona due to regulations and from Michigan to the southeast due to lower costs. The only reason the Maquiladora industries exist just south of the border near here are because of reduced labor costs and reduced regulatory costs. The only reason China is now the manufacturer of almost everything is because it’s cheaper to produce there. I’m sure you could come up with many other examples yourself.</p>
<p>As fundingfather stated, if costs increase significantly in the USA due to additional regulations imposed but other countries/locations don’t have the same impositions and therefore have substantially less costs of doing business, then the industries are likely to tend to migrate to those locations.</p>
<p>Also for bigger ticket items like airplanes countries are requiring Boeing to locate some jobs in the buying country. They just moved $1 Billion worth of work to India. India buys planes by the dozen.</p>
<p>And not just Boeing but Airbus is outsourcing as well in order to reduce costs -
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<p>[Airbus</a> to seek cost cuts by outsourcing - Times Online](<a href=“http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/engineering/article636361.ece]Airbus”>http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/engineering/article636361.ece)</p>
<p>Well, the answer to the outsourcing is to cut our labor costs by having everybody in this country work for the same wages as the Chinese.</p>
<p>We can start with the CEOs.</p>
<p>The Chinese officials and company owners do very well.</p>
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<p>Not the 101 in La?! If you’re lucky you’ll go about 35-45 between 3-7 PM.</p>
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<p>No dice. If you really meant that than why is it whenever Democrats try to change trade agreements to have enviromental and labor regulations Republicans cry like Boehner in that pathetic speech. What “girly men” [YouTube</a> - Rep. Boehner Crying](<a href=“http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ir1UABBe1v4]YouTube”>http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ir1UABBe1v4)</p>
<p>Post 102?.thank you</p>
<p>Does your universal view of economics take into account, the fact that the new high tech industries that will be created as we move away from carbon based energy will need highly trained and very skilled people to develop the industry and then trained and skilled people to build the new industrial infrastructure?</p>
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<p>On this we partially agree. However, a conscious effort needs to be done to separate the debate between alternative energy and global warming. Currently they are argued in the same breath and the results can be very bad for the country. Bad, if the debate focuses on limiting CO2 emissions resulting in increased costs for doing business in this country and the ultimate outsourcing of more jobs.</p>
<p>What the focus for alternative energy should be is a means to achieve energy independence (or to phrase it more accurately, “less energy dependant”). Alternative energy is part of this equation, but in the near term, the best alternative is increased domestic oil production, including ANWAR and more off-shore drilling.</p>