tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post8734354246430309334..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Bring Levi's production back to Americaagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-45622693941194620432016-12-19T01:01:43.757-05:002016-12-19T01:01:43.757-05:00The pants I own that are made in third-world count...The pants I own that are made in third-world countries still require a lot of unpaid American labor- specfically mine, when I have to constantly sew, patch, and otherwise repair the stupid things as they fall apart. They're not even that cheap, either. If it helps prop up the wages of my fellow Americans, I'd certainly pay 15% more for a pair of pants that doesn't fall apart after a month of wear.Tranionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-35011615350557049342016-12-11T18:14:56.025-05:002016-12-11T18:14:56.025-05:00decent article on how puzder actually looks like a...decent article on how puzder actually looks like a promising pick. maybe sessions and him will succeed in making sure they ALL GO BACK<br /><br />https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/12/08/why-donald-trump-and-american-workers-need-andrew-puzder-as-secretary-of-labor/lexie88https://www.blogger.com/profile/02193817657084020002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-28357300866876462312016-12-06T23:27:44.777-05:002016-12-06T23:27:44.777-05:00Well, well. About 1/3 of Wayne County's (Detro...Well, well. About 1/3 of Wayne County's (Detroit) precincts have voting discrepancies. Evidently the number of ballots and listed voters/votes weren't reconciled correctly, with no explanation given.<br /><br />Some officials are blaming old machines and incompetent workers. Thing is, state law renders these precincts ineligible for a recount. But their original totals are allowed to stand. In other words, there's a convenient cover-up method in place for precincts proven to have botched their duty. Either by accident or on purpose, voters and/or officials could've run the same ballot through the scanner multiple times with no corrections made. Hell, even if someone was caught doing this, it would still be up to a poll worker to correct the overvote. Christ, do you trust inner city blacks to do anything right, even if they mean well?<br /><br />America's overall shape has been hammered by one diversity measure after another. In the 60's, 70's, and 80's civil rights and liberal do-gooders led to an invasion of blacks into the public workforce (perhaps to just get them off the streets if nothing else). Since the early 90's, in most big cities and much of the Sunbelt, the darkening of pop. demos means that we don't really even need legislation anymore to ensure workforce diversity in these areas.<br /><br />Anglo and Germanic people do large scale civics and industry best. The more people we draw from areas furthest from NW Europe, the more we can look forward to the basic functions of high civilization breaking down.Ferylnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-33832828312235705512016-12-06T17:18:16.704-05:002016-12-06T17:18:16.704-05:00Yeah Sisneros was more obvious, though I know some...Yeah Sisneros was more obvious, though I know some fiercely loyal "Hispanics." American conservatism is more gay than homosexuality at this point (as evidenced by frequent scandals and being defeated by homos time after time) draining the swamp is a major understatement of what is needed, something like one of the electrocution therapy procedures Pence supposedly advocates for queers would be more appropriate.Marcusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-39730109335961142302016-12-06T16:18:01.962-05:002016-12-06T16:18:01.962-05:00He may be a more familiar kind of traitor -- "...He may be a more familiar kind of traitor -- "Suprun" appears in a book on Jewish Family Names, so he or his ancestors could be Jewish converts to Christianity (esp. if he's from Texas).<br /><br />Generally the Slavs are big-league supporters of Trump, with arch-traitor Kasich being the exception the proves the rule.<br /><br />I can't wait to keep writing and saying "306" just to troll these retards into "fact-checking" tangents.<br /><br />Edit: Suprun also has clear gay-face.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-45077517861477117942016-12-06T12:00:42.946-05:002016-12-06T12:00:42.946-05:00cuckservative dot text http://www.msn.com/en-us/ne...cuckservative dot text http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-republican-elector-says-he-wont-cast-ballot-for-trump/ar-AAlaYBO?li=BBnb7KzMarcusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-80261200158652599872016-12-05T23:47:26.095-05:002016-12-05T23:47:26.095-05:00Textiles are already being insourced on a small to...Textiles are already being insourced on a small to medium scale. Paying 15-18/hr to women and shipping within the US is panning out for a lot of small producers who can't absorb the constant outsourcing corrections (much more expensive with textiles). There were some articles about it a few years ago. Fast fashion has been in slow collapse and if Trump can deliver killing blows, so much the better. And no, those Made in America clothes don't cost 35% more, about 15% more. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-73788744437237156372016-12-05T23:37:04.724-05:002016-12-05T23:37:04.724-05:00Corporations don't exist in nature, any way; t...Corporations don't exist in nature, any way; they require legal and political construction, and they can only operate by obeying the law. If the Trump Administration changes the laws so that manufacturing corporations either have to keep factories in this country, or else bring absconded factories back, then that becomes the regime the corporations will have to work under to stay in business. <br /><br /><br />BTW, Agnostic, what do you make of libertarian beliefs about money? I don't see the alleged horror of creating fiat money from "thin air." My driver's license came from "thin air" as well - driver's licenses no more exist in nature than corporations - yet this sort of document works pragmatically for the purposes of driving and identification. In fact all documents of the state come from "thin air," including the U.S. Constitution that many American libertarians claim to revere.<br /><br />I guess it depends on which gang produces something from "thin air." Albionic Americannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-86085205497538308622016-12-05T22:51:34.996-05:002016-12-05T22:51:34.996-05:00Dealing with unions is a moot point anyway for man...Dealing with unions is a moot point anyway for manufacturing -- as those jobs have been sent outside the country, the unions representing those workers have collapsed.<br /><br />Most "unions" today are for government service workers.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5452456872018490482016-12-05T22:48:29.013-05:002016-12-05T22:48:29.013-05:00Wrong. There was plenty of manufacturing in the So...Wrong. There was plenty of manufacturing in the South, where there were no unions. That's all gone, too.<br /><br />Specifically at Levi's, they never had one unionized worker (see the Forbes link). The idea was to promote good social values among management, so that the workers wouldn't have any grievances to unionize over. Apparently it worked.<br /><br />But that didn't keep the factories open, and 15-20 thousand never-unionized jobs were sent outside the country.<br /><br />Then the argument goes, "Well, we can't have either unions or socially responsible management that would enact the same policies as unions would if they existed." I.e., if only American workers would accept the pay and conditions of Mexican, Indian, and Chinese ant-people, it would be perfectly OK for manufacturers to hire here.<br /><br />But Americans are NOT ant-people.<br /><br />So, the "high cost" of hiring Americans means that those businesses will be less profitable hiring here than hiring in the third world. In other words, it'll be like it was before the '80s and '90s, when those businesses made plenty of profit and continued running companies that had existed for over 100 years in the case of Levi's.<br /><br />That is what matters -- maintaining the economic ecosystem, not maximizing profits to stockholders while impoverishing workers.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-90599449334905142632016-12-05T22:26:19.383-05:002016-12-05T22:26:19.383-05:00Trump will also have to make the unions tow the li...Trump will also have to make the unions tow the line somehow, as they are a big part of the reason so many manufacturing jobs have left the US.Robert What?https://www.blogger.com/profile/03863449539859132763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-24843597994808538372016-12-05T19:09:18.032-05:002016-12-05T19:09:18.032-05:00http://theuptake.org/live-video-post/wisconsin-rec...http://theuptake.org/live-video-post/wisconsin-recount-day-3-waukesha-county/<br /><br />Teutons at work. Ya'll in the Sunbelt and Bos-Wash , this is what American government used to look like all over the place. No wonder California takes forever to count the votes.<br /><br />BTW, Trump has actually gained votes in quite a few places.Ferylnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-40919150913626133722016-12-05T18:43:44.664-05:002016-12-05T18:43:44.664-05:00It takes whatever it takes, quit worrying.It takes whatever it takes, quit worrying.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-73127164149120638012016-12-05T17:42:37.444-05:002016-12-05T17:42:37.444-05:00That's the way Mr Trump has usually explained ...That's the way Mr Trump has usually explained it: If you move jobs out of the US, we're going to tax you!....maybe he means the non-US companies as well, but that's not getting airtime.<br /><br />I haven't looked at it in depth, but I suspect that in garment manufacturing it would take considerably more than a 35% tariff to overcome higher US labor costs. David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-19444432438268129882016-12-05T16:53:29.389-05:002016-12-05T16:53:29.389-05:00DF, Gee I thought the America-first policy would t...DF, Gee I thought the America-first policy would tax American companies while giving foreign companies tax-free entry into our market...agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-57250653536172976702016-12-05T15:35:35.271-05:002016-12-05T15:35:35.271-05:00"L-S is also one of the most PC outfits aroun..."L-S is also one of the most PC outfits around, totally "converged," as Vox would say."<br /><br />All the better to make them the target, just like Trump calling out Apple for over a year about making their product here.<br /><br />"What does San Francisco have against the American people anyway?" :trollface:agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4768449180056341122016-12-05T15:35:18.096-05:002016-12-05T15:35:18.096-05:00It does not work to impose tariffs on US companies...It does not work to impose tariffs on US companies that offshore their production UNLESS you also put equivalent tariffs on non-US companies shipping goods into the US.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-91808294040868030742016-12-05T13:46:57.579-05:002016-12-05T13:46:57.579-05:00The Establishment is going to have to work overtim...The Establishment is going to have to work overtime to spin this as a negative.gumdeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16176571456227420680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-81238779761793962292016-12-05T12:57:08.615-05:002016-12-05T12:57:08.615-05:00I remember when I stopped wearing Levi's, the ...I remember when I stopped wearing Levi's, the fit of which I've never been able to match. It was when they hit $40 a pair, which I think was around '01. I also noticed at that time that they weren't as durable as before. Since then I've been wearing<br />Wranglers from Wal-Mart. L-S is also one of the most PC outfits around, totally "converged," as Vox would say.Martynoreply@blogger.com