02-26-2017, 06:40 PM
Good luck with "buying American," let alone by force:
Quote:Start with Boeing’s Dreamliner itself. It’s not “made in the U.S.A..” It’s assembled in the United States. But most of it parts come from overseas. Those foreign parts total almost a third of the cost of the entire plane. For example:Why Trumponomics Fails | RealClearPolitics
Notably, these companies don’t pay their workers low wages. In fact, when you add in the value of health and pension benefits – either directly from these companies to their workers, or in the form of public benefits to which the companies contribute – most of these foreign workers get a better deal than do Boeing’s workers. (The average wage for Boeing production and maintenance workers in South Carolina is $20.59 per hour, or $42,827 a year.)
- The Italian firm Alenia Aeronautica makes the center fuselage and horizontal stabilizers.
- The French firm Messier-Dowty makes the aircraft’s landing gears and doors.
- The German firm Diehl Luftfahrt Elektronik supplies the main cabin lighting.
- The Swedish firm Saab Aerostructures makes the cargo access doors.
- The Japanese company Jamco makes parts for the lavatories, flight deck interiors and galleys.
- The French firm Thales makes its electrical power conversion system. Thales selected GS Yuasa, a Japanese firm, in 2005 to supply it with the system’s lithium-ion batteries.
- The British company Rolls Royce makes many of the engines.
- A Canadian firm makes the moveable trailing edge of the wings.
They also get more paid vacation days. These nations also provide most young people with excellent educations and technical training. They continuously upgrade the skills of their workers. And they offer universally available health care. To pay for all this, these countries also impose higher tax rates on their corporations and wealthy individuals than does the United States. And their health, safety, environmental, and labor regulations are stricter. Not incidentally, they have stronger unions.