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Trump Suggests Tariffs Could Be Placed on iPhones and Laptops Imported From China
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You need to get out of your coastal MENSA bubble and hang out with the rest of America. Most of the population CANNOT just retrain in a few months to become web designers and other high-tech creatives. Even if the economy could support that many creatives, which it most certainly cannot. I know, because I'm one of those creatives, and wages have been stagnant for 20+ years now.
We need a range of jobs in this country. From the creative and complex, to the simple and mundane if ALL Americans are going to prosper. Ignoring the needs of the majority in favor of globalist utopian delusions is what made Trump possible in the first place. Don't like Trump? Then pay attention to the needs of the people who voted him in. He's not their first choice, he was just their only choice.
Not the "big red picture" again.
For President races especially, every vote should count.
Who said anything about cosmetic or dental? In Canada you supplement that just the same anyways with insurance. Aside from that it's not uncommon for Canadian hospitals to send you to the states for treatment because of the backlog of timely medical care, especially Buffalo where it's fantastically supporting Canadian cancer patients.
Who is talking about riots - except the Nationalist Drumpf and his followers. They drove a car into a crowd - not some foreign terrorist, but a majority male American!
I am talking about the suburban and rural pale anger - starting with Mitch McConnell's day one promise when Obama won. It is still there, unless you never listen to the radio (talk) or see any Fox News excerpts!
Tell that to the thousands at GM who lost their jobs this week because of steel tariffs. More money, right?
You mean the coordinated lay-offs by GM to stop putting money into products that aren't selling so they can make more money by making stuff that will sell? Yes exactly, more money indeed.
"GM is expected to save $6 billion as a result of the restructuring."
You are full of dog pucky!
So many inaccuracies in your post, especially about the USA education system, which by the way, starts in K-12 schools, where STEM is suffering like nowhere else on the planet.
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You might like this to be true, but unfortunately, that doesn't make it so. Q4 revenue was actually up 20% year over year, and gross margins stayed about the same. So, try again.
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Actually, everything he wrote was pretty spot-on. You're even talking like Trump, e.g., "no where [sic] else on the planet." Goodness.
US Healthcare Sucks Balls, ask Bernie on that one
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How is Coal going?
There are soooooo many things wrong with this post lol ... WTF! I just can't, I can't even. I am hoping this is a class A troll. (troll alert!)
I always wonder why people call us Americans stupid and then see a post like this.
You guys were racist from day 1
M McConnell 2009 Our Single goal is to stop Obama from a second term and to obstruct everything
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Low IQ Votersthe electoral ones did
Pretty sure I have disliked McConnell for some time and voted for Obama in both elections. I'm not sure what's racist about wanted the Presidential election to be based on a popular vote.
Trump only won because of Clinton.
Bernie would have had 300+ EVs
Biden would have won the rust belt
Warren would have won
Clinton was flat out toxic
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Not talking to you, sorry for double quoting you. I think that might be a good idea, but the GOP likes it because it is one of the few weapons they have left, besides voting obstruction
Robots can't build the iPhone. Those who think it can are living in a dream.
Tesla spent billions on R&D, software, robots, and is backed by the brightest minds. The semi-robot factory in California couldn't even pump out 5,000 cars a week with any decent quality. Things weren't fixed until Elon Musk brought back humans to the factory.
A robot can assemble and weld giant pieces of metal. It has no chance of putting a wiring harness together, much less an iPhone.
Your exaggerations of robots building cars 20 years ago were clearly just dreams. They're still dreams in 2018.
I agree Clinton cheated as should NEVER be in power, that said she could have beat Bernie fair & square but she was too crooked to try it. no worries, the DNC is going to make sure only Clinton is in the primaries.
GM laying off people after closing plants has nothing to do with steel tariffs or the type of vehicles (sedans) produced - it is the unappealing and unreliable nature of the products.
If sedans were death knells, Honda, BMW, MB, Toyota, etc. would all be closing shop. GM is not able to compete with their sedans.
Why shouldn't Americans perform manual labor
?USA needs engineers, scientists, doctors, nurses, computer programmers - i.e., STEM educated people. Right now they are importing them, in spite of the wonderful education system. Why isn't the USA natively producing enough of the engineers, scientists, artists, and other such "people that can create value with their minds"?
It is producing enough lawyers, though; actually to an excess
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Other than pointing out my spelling mistake, you made not a single point!
There are soooooo many things wrong with this post lol ... WTF! I just can't, I can't even. I am hoping this is a class A troll. (troll alert!)
I always wonder why people call us Americans stupid and then see a post like this.
Ha, a kindred spirit
! There are many more in these 20+ pages of posts.
Hey....just two more years...then he is gone....moving to Monaco where the wealthy go to avoid paying any taxes.
The points had already been made. When your response was "You are full of dog pucky!" and then a non-sequitur about education, it's not like there was anything to refute. Should we invest in STEM education? Yes, duh. That doesn't change the fact that Trump is an imbecile of the highest order. Nor does it change the fact that globalization is a force you can't change, and trying to do so only hurts us in the long-run. As I've stated before, this is Economics 101.
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Ha, a kindred spirit
As the saying goes, "two wrongs don't make a right."
Right? where did all these crazy people come from?
also "people that can create value with their minds"? - this quote is so *cringeworthy*... how do you expect people to create value with their minds? what like telekinesis? making objects appear out of thin air? Where do the computers come from that these engineers are working on? Or are these smart brilliant engineers able to conjure up magical computers?
Actually a lot of STEM, engineers immigrated from India and China.
I agree with all three of these points (that I highlighted)!
I used the "dog thing" because that frustrating poster has been repeating that nonsense all over the thread - especially praising USA's education system, college component, when it is not delivering while being ridiculously expensive. The K-12 is free, yes, but very bad with STEM to date.
Forcing USA to still import brain-labor!
You don't know what you are talking about.
Mercedes has been building SUVs by robots in Tuscaloosa, AL since mid 1990s. I witnessed the robotic assembly line with my own eyes during the Tuscaloosa factory tour in 1998. I saw robots putting minute things inside of the SUV with my own eyes. I can also tell you that the majority of the engineering and technical personnel that worked at that factory was German because (I guess) Americans didn't have people who knew how to build or service robots. It seems that now (20 years later) we still have no expertise in robotic assembly lines; hence, the comments like yours that claim that building an iPhone by robots is not possible. Why would we have this expertise? For over two decades, it was much cheaper just to outsource all production to China. Germans didn't do that. They actually kept production in Germany, and addressed the high labor costs by building robotic assembly lines.
I don't know if this plant was an exception or it was a general direction that the European automotive industry was taking back 20+ years ago. I know there's a BMW plant in South Carolina that I used to pass all the time. I never took a tour of that plant, so I don't know if BMWs were being built by robots or not. I can only speak for the Mercedes plant that I toured, which had robotic assembly lines literally 20 years ago.
It is absolutely possible to build an iPhone by robots in 2018 if Cook had been smart enough to start building robotic factories in the US back in 2016 when Trump told him so. Apparently, Cook didn't think Trump was being serious.
The first Apple-owned robotic factories would have been making iPhone XS and XS Max by now if Cook didn't waste all this time. And the price of the iPhone may have been lower due to more efficiency and higher productivity that robotic assembly lines provide.
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