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Originally Posted by TwitchKitty
I don't accept that it is too expensive to make anything here. It is only so because big money pays their lobbyists to make it so. They don't want competition, producers, they want consumers.
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Regardless of what you will or will not accept, this is what it boils down to. COST OF LABOR. One of the things I export is Distillers Dried Grain. A waste product from making Ethanol out of corn.
I can have it bagged into 55lbs bags, sewn up, stacked into a 40 foot container, shipped to Nam for WAY MORE than it cost me to send it on a truck for transloading in bulk into a 40 foot container and have several guys with a few shovels and scale and a sewing machine do it overseas. What are you worth an hour? I'd say a lot less than a guy over in China or Nam a day. Why should I pay more? I am only talking raw wages here. It adds up more when you say that I can simply dump what I want into the Yangtze River and here, I have to contend with the EPA.