Trump on his way to Mexico to meet with Mex Pres
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
-Sun Tzu
Trumps clothing line came out after the clintons sent a majority of the factories to mexico
Quite the opposite, greed. It's because of labor unions (which you despise), minimum wage advocates (which you also despise), and people like Hillary and Obama who are squarely responsible for the actual producers having little to no incentive to keep jobs like that here.
I broke my self imposed rule of ignoring you because you are that ignorant.
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Why is it crazy? Seriously. It's not crazy at all. It's actually a responsible thing to do. Meetings happen everyday, in all levels of business or politics between leaders, groups, boards, diplomats etc that have adversarial relationships for various reasons.
You utopian dreamers should be applauding this meeting as an indication of potential collaboration, peace and goodwill toward men
Here's one list of US based clothing manufacturers...
http://bizmology.hoovers.com/clothes-made-in-usa
http://bizmology.hoovers.com/clothes-made-in-usa
Interesting.....Greed constantly claims business people like Trump "don't create jobs".
However, when it's convenient....Trumps responsible for essentially taking them away???
I think these guys would fit the bill quite nicely if Trump was interested in anything besides his own personal gain...http://www.hartschaffnermarx.com/#about
You seem to know a lot about the apparel industry. When do you plan to open up a biz and capture a piece of this market share? Be careful though. Don't get to successful. Someone may complain about your ability to succeed as "interested only in your personal gain".
You guys do realize that American Apparel is planning on moving much of it's manufacturing overseas???????????? It will be based stateside, but outsource production.
Costs to produce (anything) in this country are only going higher (thanks big govt). For the business to survive (some refer to this as "personal gain") less expensive means are necessary.
Bottom line, you want manufacturing here.....lower the costs to produce.
Costs to produce (anything) in this country are only going higher (thanks big govt). For the business to survive (some refer to this as "personal gain") less expensive means are necessary.
Bottom line, you want manufacturing here.....lower the costs to produce.
I do know a bit about the textile industry and manufacturing in general. I helped a start up operation and have been involved for the past 30 years in American manufacturing. Our company now employees nearly 200 folks using American made products. We didn't succumb to the temptation to go offshore to purchase cheaper materials because we believed in the "buy American" philosophy above a few points of profit margin. We have sales north of 50MM per year at a nice profit and share that with the employees. So yeah, I know a little bit about making goods in the USA... Yeah, I have done ok personally, but not at all costs and not ruthlessly!! While Trump has every right to run his company as he sees fit, don't preach one thing and practice another, pure hypocrisy!! Don't piss down my back and try to convince me it's raining Donald!
It's called "continuous improvement process". We are challenged on a regular basis to use good old American ingenuity and smarts to improve efficiencies and lower costs. Some are just too lazy to work at it or lack the willingness for change and innovation. It CAN be done!!
Fact of the matter is that manufacturing like our parents knew is never coming back. Factories may employ 500 people now but in the 50's and 70d employed thousands
Poor Mexico. Too poor to pay Hillary for access so they settle for the runner up.
Think they'll take a picture by him? You know, like we always did with our Polaroid when the Delta Queen made it to our neck of the river.
Think they'll take a picture by him? You know, like we always did with our Polaroid when the Delta Queen made it to our neck of the river.
So imherdfan, are you manufacturing a commodity product or something more specialized?
That's an opinion you have of yourself. I cant say otherwise, because I don't know you. If you've done well...congratulations. Likewise, its probably safe to say you don't really know DT personally or professionally other than what the media is feeding you. Or, maybe it's Hillary actually pissing on you while you look for an umbrella.
Never said it couldn't be done. However, in the modern era...all of this means fewer workers in manufacturing. Especially when considering the costs of govt regulation and bureaucracy continually being added to a businesses P&L.
Absolutely, automation has changed the face of most industry from manufacturing to mining. It has meant fewer jobs. Thats why is so critical to support American businesses, not take your business to China, Bangladesh or Mexico.
I don't need to know much more than him Using bankruptcy laws to screw creditors, taking people's homes by using his influence to get imminent domain declared, and taking his business off shore at the expense of American jobs to know most of what I need to know about Trump. That's quite well documented. What does Clinton have to do with this? I am not a fan of her either, she's not part of the equation we are discussing.
You should have stuck to your ignorant rule. You would have appeared much smarter. Of the top 10 economic nations, here is the collective agreement percentages. Your drivel doesn't jive with facts.
switzerland 51%
singapore 18%
u s 8%
finland 91%
germany 57%
japan 15%
hong kong <1/%
netherlands 81%
uk 25%
sweden 88%
Your idea of the best way to improve an economy is to find and use the lowest priced labor, a 3rd world approach. If any of those 9 nations had the resources and size of our economy, they would dominate us.
Thank you for offering up the evidence which reinforces why they don't actually have the resources to "dominate us".....
You continue to prove why you've never expanded your business beyond the backyard woodshed.
