Why can't USA bring manufacturing jobs back from China?

BOZO and the dems do not believe in capitalism..that is why. They gave Gore 600 million dollars for his green car company in FINLAND for 90,000 dollar cars.

Why should they help AMERICA rebuild and give jobs?

2 billion to Brazil to do off shore drilling...

TOO much for other countries and not for us...but then the dems say the illegals are the only ones that want to work ...so I guess they dont' think we need the jobs! Not enough illegals to work for us. (sarcasm)

I thought the US already turned a blind eye to illegal immigrants to allow for cheap labour that other developed countries don't have. It's really a matter of principal/ethics, is it OK to have a second class citizen? Some would say yes, some would say no.

Actually, the Chinese are not provided with any of those things any more, health care, housing etc is almost totally private. Education is still available publicly, but private schools are becoming hugely popular. The Chinese government does not set wages, and most busineses are privately owned, just like in any western country. There is basically a completely free labour market. Some of you have an outdated idea of how China is run, in some ways it is now the most capitalist country in the world. New roads are all toll roads etc. Perhaps you should visit, it's an eye-opening experience.

At the current time that would be impossible. The low cost manufacturing jobs that go to China result in low prices for consumers in America. Bring those jobs back would cause prices to sky rocket and would make the recession worse, not solved. Also many of these US firms that have manufacturing based in China trade throughout the world, not just the US, meaning major markets in Asia, Europe, and the Americas would also be negatively hit. If every country did what you suggest it would result in a complete and total economic meltdown as a result of protectionism as was seen in the 1930's.

1. Chinese government sets the wages. As China is a communist country, there is no welfare. You want to eat? You work, where, when and for how much the government tells you. Tough to compete with that model.

2. China doesn't have unions.

3. China, because they own the businesses, does not tax the businesses. Taxes are a cost factored into the price of goods. No taxes? You can sell cheaper.

Bottom line, we can't match China's labor and tax costs. Eventually, however, this will change. Communism cannot survive capitalism for long.

The industrial machinery in China will never leave China.

China will more likely nationalize parts that are owned by foreign nationals and use that profit to increase the wages of its workers to expand its domestic consumer base if it feels the need to make drastic change.

If the USA wants to rebuild its domestic industrial production it will have to do it without what has been removed to China.

You highlight a key problem in why manufacturing jobs keep leaving the USA and why they will not be coming back.

Your suggestion is not actually about bringing jobs back to the US...it is about bringing yet another foreign labor-class to in order to make life easier for the rest of us.

Re-read your own question and then ask youself this: Is your focus on Americans's ability to MAKE things or their ability to BUY them? It sounds to me like you're just trying to make it easier for Americans to buy cheap goods. This is part of the problem, not the solution.

A country's worth is determined by what it can make, not what it can buy. Rather than focusing on feeding Americans' rampant consumerism, I think the goal should be to put Americans back to work in manufacturing jobs and get them out of the shopping malls.

Problem is, the Chinese wouldn't go for it. Look at how many dangerous things they have shipped to us - poisonous infant formula, lead filled toys, sulfuric drywall, etc. They know they would have to manufacture under our rules, and they wouldn't do it. But the only difference other than that would be the loss of shipping costs. It wouldn't create any more American jobs or bring any more money into the US economy.

us companies can get their products made cheaper in china. no unions or health benefits or 401 plans and know laws to prevent this. people can't make a living wage under these conditions in the usa...we have food stamps and welfare to help, and walmart to help the poor...in russia the poor just die or hide like many other third world countries...so there you have it ....

what's the point in that?

the problem is... our workers are losing our jobs...

our jobs alow our workers to buy goods that keep stores in business...

if you bring chinese workers over here, you would have to provide them with EVERYTHING, housing, food, medical care (which the Chinese gov. provides them now)... because they certainly can't afford to buy any of that in America at American prices on Chinese wages...

not to mention you get into a slave wage issue, immigration and a human rights nightmare...

Not the worst idea in the world but the unions would have a S*&% fit over it.

The real answer is to create an environment that allows us to compete with the Chinese. But we are moving in the opposite direction.

If you have never seen the movie Roger & Me you can probably get it from your public library. This is a good way to look inside the mind of the top people. You will see they used the American worker & had no loyalty to them. They then wanted to take the riches they gained & move their plants overseas.