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JakeTheTall wrote:

bratboy wrote:

JakeTheTall wrote:

I should hunt around for the numbers...I think the amount the US imports from China is surprisingly LOW.  The increases are impressive, but Japan and the EU have been around as exporters to the US for a long time.

One issue with Cyberpawz statement is "majority"...I don't think any single country can claim more than 20% of total goods imported into the United States.  But Mister Cyberpawz always does like an incorrect, oversimplified economic picture.

He wasn't talking only about "importing" though...something about the U.S. using their "cheap labor."

True enough.

But then the question is....how would the US take advantage (i.e. using) of cheap labor, if it doesn't import goods created by that labor?

Or are there vast numbers of Chinese coming across the US-Mexican border, undercutting wages ?

An item that comes from China costs 1/2 to a 1/3 less than if the US built it. Just read a little and you'll see anything done in the US adds cost to the final product.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0, … in_tff_top

midgetcop wrote:

resedit wrote:

bratboy wrote:

...its so easy to get those Asian countries confused...

Never call a norweigan a swede - those asians really don't like it.

You can call me a Swede *any* day.

But you're not even an asian!

Cyberpawz wrote:

JakeTheTall wrote:

bratboy wrote:

He wasn't talking only about "importing" though...something about the U.S. using their "cheap labor."

True enough.

But then the question is....how would the US take advantage (i.e. using) of cheap labor, if it doesn't import goods created by that labor?

Or are there vast numbers of Chinese coming across the US-Mexican border, undercutting wages ?

An item that comes from China costs 1/2 to a 1/3 less than if the US built it. Just read a little and you'll see anything done in the US adds cost to the final product.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0, … in_tff_top

Are you saying that's a good thing, a bad thing, or that I'm wrong ?

JakeTheTall wrote:

Cyberpawz wrote:

JakeTheTall wrote:

True enough.

But then the question is....how would the US take advantage (i.e. using) of cheap labor, if it doesn't import goods created by that labor?

Or are there vast numbers of Chinese coming across the US-Mexican border, undercutting wages ?

An item that comes from China costs 1/2 to a 1/3 less than if the US built it. Just read a little and you'll see anything done in the US adds cost to the final product.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0, … in_tff_top

Are you saying that's a good thing, a bad thing, or that I'm wrong ?

Personally a bad thing, things should not be inflated that much.

Hum, found this info from here.

Canada had the most exports to the US, at 17.4 % (of total imports into the US), with China number two at 13.4%.  Just the listed EU countries (clearly the largest exporters) totalled more than 15%.

Forgot about Canada, myself.  <insert joke here>

And of course China's number will grow, and maybe to a large amount.  Cheaper trousers galore!

isaly wrote:

cyberpawz wrote:

Of course you'd never know that since the chance of you getting on my buddy list is slim to nil.

Oh sleep. . . doth thou evade me?

Best post ever.

Cyberpawz wrote:

Shlo wrote:

Upon reading your post I have come to the conclusion that you are a douche.

And you dear sir, and an ignorant patsy...

Are you just trying to prove a point, or call people names?

Just the name calling, really.

Douche.

Onthebeach wrote:

Cyberpawz wrote:

And yet we use one of those two (Finland or Japan) for a majority of our products I wonder why?  Cheap uneducated labor...

Cheap, uneducated labor? In Japan? Are you confusing it with China? It's easy to do. One is enormous and filled with cheap uneducated labor and the other is not.

And don't forget Finland, world famous for it's large, uneducated, Spanish-speaking workforce and it's invasion of cheaply produced "Made in Finland" products.

Gah.

Boy, I wish I had caught this before it went to six pages.  If for no other reason: 

1) Plagarized a story as your own.

12) Do not plagiarize.
- Plagiarize, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is
         transitive senses : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own :
                                                  use (another's production) without crediting the source
         intransitive senses : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
- Don't do it.  Any thread that starts with plagiarism will be locked as soon as the theft is discovered and the person who stole another's idea will be exposed.
- Cite your source when you quote something from another website; include a link back to the source whenever possilble.