Wal Mart shocker

[MossRoad]

I agree and wish the same. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[KennyV]

Wal Mart like any other successful retailer is doing what works… selling what people want/need at a price they are willing to pay. By doing so they have became the largest employer we have, and they have a huge workforce, working for what they agree to work for. They also allow millions of consumers the opportunity to purchase necessities at a price they can afford.

I also hope no one looses a job, but if that job can be preformed as good for less… it’s going to eventually go somewhere else /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. That is good economic sense. The loss of a job is not necessarily the end of the world… It is going to be a change in the way things are done.

Vin you are so right… we would have to really lower our standard of living if we didn’t import. As a matter of fact many would not have a standard of living at all if we were suddenly cut off from our dependence of imports. KennyV.

 

[daedong]

kennyV,

I have never heard anyone slag(ridicule) the oil that is imported into your country /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[KennyV]

VIN...
You are Right again… I believe if anyone just thinks about it /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gifwe are all very fortunate that someone is importing things that we need. KennyV.

 

[sweettractors]

<font color="blue">They didn't take your job. They out bid you. They agreed to do it for less than you were willing to do it for. </font>

MossRoad, Not very hard to outbid the workforce in our area, We have a lot of 20 to 40 year old kids that would not take a job for $50 per hour and stay with it. I think we, as a country, have lost a generation of kids that actually have not been taught to work, Until this is corrected by the parents and less freebies from the goverment?? I suspect that jobs will still go to people willing to do them in the USA or Overseas. I talk to customers daily about issues such as this and I get the feeling that I am not alone in feeling this way /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif---Ken Sweet

Sweet Farm Equipment LLC *Wildlife Foodplot Implements, Seeds, Feeds, and Supplies*

 

[BillyP]

Yeah, like what I heard about on the news a while back. Some company in Texas that designs software for telephone companies just outsourced the jobs to Argentina. The people here were getting 40 grand a year to do the job and the Argentinians will do it for 6 grand.

I talked to a guy the other day that had been working for Lucent for 39 years. He got layed off because Lucent outsourced to India. They layed 11,000 off. That was in Texas also.

There used to be 3 clothing factories in this county but they are gone (to China I suppose). The only thing holding this county together is the timber industry and agriculture.

 

[eee]

Vince,
Excellent point. I have not seen anyone turning away from the gas pumps up here because it is being imported from the middle east/Russia/South America.
Shell/BP Amoco foreign owned companies and one on every street corner

 

[MossRoad]

My wife and I have been very fortunate in that when we got married we planned around the worst case scenario of two people working for minimum wage. We have maintained our frugal spending practices for the last 19 years, and could survive pretty well today on two minimum wage jobs. Of course, we couldn't buy new tractors on those wages. I guess I'd have to get off my duff and do physical labor at that point, like mow the lawn by hand! YIKES! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif However, I'd probably convert the lawn to a garden by the time that happened, to raise food, so I wouldn't have the food expense. Let's face it... we live in a world of luxury compared to people 100 years ago. Not many of us can honestly say we grow our own food. Most of us that have a garden do it because we enjoy it, not because of necessity like our folks did in the depression. I suppose I am lucky that my mom and dad instilled in me a value of what really hard times are like, even though I have(fortunately) never had to live through them. If times got really tuff, our family would pull together just like the old days. We'd move the folks and grandma in with us and probably bring in the sisters and brothers and their families, too. That's another thing I'd like to talk about... the breakdown of the family structure... but, I guess that topic, like this topic, is way far away from the guidlelines here at TBN...

Is there any way to bring this thread back to tractor related stuff? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

OK. Here's a picture of me with my (for the most part)American made tractor. Enjoy! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Click here!

 

[slowrev]

The cheap chinese imports has made our (USA) economy look better than it really is. Kepps the CPI lower and decreases the inflation numbers.

Note this is not a political statement just basic economics.

Ben

 

[TBAR]

America is going to have to reposition itself in the world market by producing something that cannot be done by cheep labor over seas. I suspect the value added/service industry and the manual trades industries will be good choices in the years and decades to come.

Either that or we become isolationist to world competition in an effort to protect our tech and manufacturing jobs which does not bode well in the long run.


TBAR