Wilbur Ross: Trump's new China tariffs will increase prices but 'nobody is going to actually notice'

LucyLou · 2018-09-19T02:48:23.920Z

Wilbur Ross will feel no pain. The plebes buying cans of Campbell’s condensed at the 7/11, eh, they’ll barely notice.

STODR · 2018-09-19T04:16:17.517Z

So the liberals on here are now okay with cheap Chinese goods at Wall-mart. Good to know.

reflechissez · 2018-09-19T04:49:12.723Z

STODR:

So the liberals on here are now okay with cheap Chinese goods at Wall-mart. Good to know.

Where do republicans shop?

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2018-09-19T11:51:15.841Z

Get another fork, another spoon, another knife and another plate. You never know when Helga will visit.

Call_me_Ishmael · 2018-09-19T11:56:09.394Z

CaughtInTheMiddle:

Get another fork, another spoon, another knife and another plate. You never know when Helga will visit.

Bowl… not plate. Did I not say bowl?

Aluminim foil is a fine plate. But a bowl is special. It can be your cereal bowl and then your coffee cup.

FreeAndClear · 2018-09-19T12:15:39.510Z

Thoreau is that you?

FreeAndClear · 2018-09-19T12:16:33.809Z

The is pretty funny and nobody in their right mind should believe ishy.

FreeAndClear · 2018-09-19T12:17:29.050Z

They apparently don’t.

They only need:
One spoon
One fork
One bowl
One pallet
And of course a truck.

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2018-09-19T12:24:09.822Z

Call_me_Ishmael:

CaughtInTheMiddle:

Get another fork, another spoon, another knife and another plate. You never know when Helga will visit.

Bowl… not plate. Did I not say bowl?

Aluminim foil is a fine plate. But a bowl is special. It can be your cereal bowl and then your coffee cup.

Is your stick foreign made?

Call_me_Ishmael · 2018-09-19T12:27:28.921Z

FreeAndClear:

They apparently don’t.

They only need:
One spoon
One fork
One bowl
One pallet
And of course a truck.

Call_me_Ishmael · 2018-09-19T12:28:29.846Z

CaughtInTheMiddle:

Call_me_Ishmael:

CaughtInTheMiddle:

Get another fork, another spoon, another knife and another plate. You never know when Helga will visit.

Bowl… not plate. Did I not say bowl?

Aluminim foil is a fine plate. But a bowl is special. It can be your cereal bowl and then your coffee cup.

Is your stick foreign made?

Stick?
Please dude. Do your drugs elsewhere.

Smyrna · 2018-09-19T12:33:01.164Z

Yogi…Mr. Walmart isn’t going to like this.

Axxowiz · 2018-09-19T12:57:17.973Z

This is one area I wholeheartedly agree with Trump, the tariffs. It’s a democrat move not a Republican one to try and protect workers against a communist regime who lets corporations basically exploit slave labor at slave prices.

Democrats used to be the party of the working man and unions, now you guys are the parry of uber-free trade damn the outcome, when did this 180 happen?

tnt · 2018-09-19T13:05:31.465Z

Think about it this way -

Would you rather your kids make socks in a sweat shop or sell socks in a Walmart?

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2018-09-19T13:49:58.040Z

Call_me_Ishmael:

CaughtInTheMiddle:

Call_me_Ishmael:

CaughtInTheMiddle:

Get another fork, another spoon, another knife and another plate. You never know when Helga will visit.

Bowl… not plate. Did I not say bowl?

Aluminim foil is a fine plate. But a bowl is special. It can be your cereal bowl and then your coffee cup.

Is your stick foreign made?

Stick?
Please dude. Do your drugs elsewhere.

Hang on. You’re not beating women off with a stick?

tnt · 2018-09-19T13:51:11.343Z

Wilbur Ross is worth $700,000,000. Of course he’s not going to feel it if prices of chinese imports go up!

Why would he care if the price of tools for a carpenter go up at Home Depot? Hell, they could triple and he wouldn’t notice.

Call_me_Ishmael · 2018-09-19T14:05:08.003Z

CaughtInTheMiddle:

Call_me_Ishmael:

CaughtInTheMiddle:

Call_me_Ishmael:

CaughtInTheMiddle:

Get another fork, another spoon, another knife and another plate. You never know when Helga will visit.

Bowl… not plate. Did I not say bowl?

Aluminim foil is a fine plate. But a bowl is special. It can be your cereal bowl and then your coffee cup.

Is your stick foreign made?

Stick?
Please dude. Do your drugs elsewhere.

Hang on. You’re not beating women off with a stick?

Hahahahaha… so you got a sense of humor.

I’ll just say this: Once you are married, such a stick is a good investment… no matter where it is manufactured. You should get yourself one. Your middle age crisis ain’t over.

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2018-09-19T14:52:31.516Z

Call_me_Ishmael:

Hahahahaha… so you got a sense of humor.

I’ll just say this: Once you are married, such a stick is a good investment… no matter where it is manufactured. You should get yourself one. Your middle age crisis ain’t over.

If I’m ever single again I’m gonna try your one spoon/one fork/aluminum foil trick to see if I can reel Natasha in.

NuffSaid · 2018-09-19T14:56:34.002Z

Sounds like a George Thorogood song

tnt · 2018-09-19T15:11:08.729Z

People often mischaracterize the liberal position on this stuff.

Well, I’ll speak for myself, but I think this is generally were a lot of liberal minded people are coming from.

I’m pro american WORKER. Wether that is factory worker, or Wlmart shelf stocker, or school teacher, or cop, or government worker, or engineer, or health care provider…doesn’t matter. I want americans to have good pay on which they can survive without government subsidies (a topic unto itself so let’s not get bogged down on that), some plan for health care, safe work space, reasonable policies regarding sick leave, family leave, vacation time etc…

I want all workers in america to have a good life.

While certainly I am happy if those workers are in a factory making things, I understand the days of american work forces making cheap white tee shirts are over. And that’s the way it is.

But we still have people SELLING the cheap white tee shirts, and our impressive retail sector has thrived by importing cheap goods and selling them to our huge consumer base.

We have near full employment - we don’t need millions of low skill factory jobs.

But what we do need is policy that protects the workers int eh jobs our economy does provide.

On a person level, I do bemoan the same-ness of america. A large chunk of our family business was driven under by big box retailers. We had friendly, locally staffed, fun, individual, community serving stores filled with character and unique charm in small towns.

They were put out of business when the area granted big box permits and the highway got developed into a huge big box shopping location filled with the same stores, that looked the same, had the same stuff, had the same vibe as every other big box retailer in america…put entire down towns out of business.

I hate the fact that a Home Depot in Boston MA is EXACTLY the same as a Home Depot in spokane Washington. I hate the fact that every highway in america looks exactly teh same, and an Outback Steak House here is the same as one there.

And I hate that this uniformity, and boredom and same-ness puts interesting, inventing, unique places out of business every day.

I support local communities deciding for themselves to keep big boxes out, and wish more would do it.

But I don’t balme china for this - I blame our american need to grow and expand and consume.

It’s just the way it is. I don’t support any federal level policy to change it.

I do support federal level policy to make the workers in these vast hellish landscapes of retail consumption paid well enough so that the company - and the consumers supporting it - pay the full price of feeding, clothing and sheltering their own work force.