He knows not of what he speaks

Ask the person that is championing "fair trade" and makes statements like this..........ONE of HIS claims why HE produces HIS products overseas.....“the laborers are paid a lot less, and the standards are worse when it comes to the environment and health care and worker safety.”

hilLIARy makes millions from donations that come from countries that treat women like dirt, and she claims to be an advocate for women.....and she doesn't have a 'product' to sell or pay someone else to produce for her wealth.

Let's compare the two........

Is she still around?...I heard she was walking paths in the woods petting strange dogs and posing for selfies.

Does that mean YOU admit she is irrelevant?

Does that mean that you admit it?

In YOUR mind, Smiling, with her hideous laugh, always there, tormenting the he** out of you.

my lifetime, perhaps.

Once you send me your mailing address I'll be sending you a bill for my services.

You must have lied to CNET about your location and didn't receive it.....liberals always hide via deflection.

You seem to have indicated that low pay and worse conditions is "why" he has his products produced overseas. "Why" would anyone do that? Well...according to this link;

the Washington Post

which isn't exactly "Trump friendly", reason is "Finding the biggest company with the best practices is what was important to him,” said Jeff Danzer, who was vice president of the company hired by Trump to broker the deal. "

I read here as well that;

'Moreover, Trump has mentioned labor conditions overseas in support of his position that goods should be made in the United States, telling CNN last year that Chinese laborers are “paid a lot less and the standards are worse when it comes to the environment and health care and worker safety.”

This is a far cry from Trump from what you wrote.

That's right...it is isn't it?

YOURS
'Moreover, Trump has mentioned labor conditions overseas in support of his position that goods should be made in the United States, telling CNN last year that Chinese laborers are “paid a lot less and the standards are worse when it comes to the environment and health care and worker safety.”

Mine
It turns out that a huge array of Trump brand products are made in Asia or South America, countries where — as he told CNN this past summer — “the laborers are paid a lot less, and the standards are worse when it comes to the environment and health care and worker safety.”

Mine mentions the fact that TheRUMP manufactures products overseas and yours doesn't.....Yours mentions that labour conditions support goods being made in America....


Perhaps you don't think he is concerned...you just wanted to point out the the first line was someone trying to slant the "fact"..So answer this question

Can you explain WHY YOU THINK TheRUMP would be concerned about the health and well being OR the pay scale of labourers in China? his claim "supports his position"? You think he cares about a Chinese labourer?

I believe that TheRUMP was looking out for his own interest and will take his business any where in the world to save a buck...

I meant to respond to where you said;

"Ask the person that is championing "fair trade" and makes statements like this..........ONE of HIS claims why HE produces HIS products overseas.....“the laborers are paid a lot less, and the standards are worse when it comes to the environment and health care and worker safety.” (underline is mine)

That should make it more clear. I'm not arguing as to where his products are made but just pointing out that your statement as to why holds no water. His argument is that they should be made here but you are using the same verbiage to express something contrary to the context of the speech.

What is unfortunately the truth, Trump would need to build his own mills in order to do this in the US. There aren't that many here in the US anymore. It has nothing to do with the finished products but the availability of mills of "best practice" to produce them.

I can't say one way or another if his plans could work but I have some idea of what's happened with our collapsed textile and garment industry while some have survived or even thrived. Trump is blaming some of this on bad "Free Trade" agreements. Other reasons are numerous. Of course, unionisation of factories is often mentioned as playing a large part. No one is suggesting "Trump only" products either. The US no longer has the large textile mills and garment manufacturing ability to handle the needs of the country. In my own lifetime I've experienced the slow decline of "Made in the USA" labels in my clothing. Thus far, I don't see where HP has invented a way to print a pair of shorts. If I want one, it's likely to have been made overseas. Can Trump turn that trend around? I don't know but I'm willing to let him try. All we know so far about our previous few administrations is that little or nothing has been done to reverse the collapse of decades ago.

I still don't see where you've answered my charge that you've incorrectly applied a partial quote from the context of a Trump speech which claims that having poorly compensated workers make his brands is "why" the work is sent overseas. You make this sound as though he gets some sort of joy from exploiting these folks. That would be sick. You did not offer anything to prove this claim. I offered a site that showed your claim to be a false one. Wasn't there some discussion about the charges to which no proof was offered? Didn't you participate in that discussion?

I'm not here to defend Trump in any way. I won't and don't need to because you have done that yourself by offering lies and unsubstantiated claims against the man.

real estate moguls were doing, JP. Don't you want honesty in a candidate, even if you don't agree with that honesty? Even 'flippers' made money during the collapse.....when Heather and Derek were looking for their first home in Manassas 9 years ago, Heather and I spent three days there looking at over 70 homes that were on her list with an agent and a good 80% of them were totally trashed inside by former owners who lost it all or the houses were vandalized or they had been taken over by squatters. MANY people made money off of someone else's hardships, JP....not just Trump. You think hilLIARy's foundation hasn't made millions off her foundation by touting all the good they've done for charity when it turns out only about 10% of what she took in for some of them was spent on unfortunate people's tragedies? Is there any record that Trump actually DID make money buying up properties that were in distress?

So they're all "sick"?

nor would it show dates of any purchases anyhow....

IF you can prove that he bought up a ton of distressed properties, it would be in the Property Tax Departments of counties all across the country. Have at it.......Trump International is the name of his company that normally deals in Real Estate purchases.

Nope...he's that smart, JP. There is NO requirement that says a presidential candidate has to release their tax returns. Nobody but liberals care about what's in his and it really isn't anybody's business but his own. He released his FINANCIAL records and that shows quite a bit and is all that is required....go cry in your beer over the fact that he thumbed his nose at liberal 'rules' and didn't bend....no more than hilLIARy did over her emails and her speeches to Wall Street.

There is NO requirement that says a presidential candidate has to release their tax returns. Nobody but liberals care about what's in his

Why Even Conservative Republicans Say Donald Trump Must Release His Tax Returns

Mark Sanford, the two-time governor and current Congressman from South Carolina, is a self-professed “conservative Republican” who plans on following the party line and voting for Donald Trump in the presidential election.

But Sanford doesn’t exactly seem happy about it. In an op-ed penned for the New York Times, Sanford said that he has “no stomach for his personal style and his penchant for regularly demeaning others.” More importantly, though, Trump’s decision to not release his tax returns “would hurt transparency in our democratic process,” likely resulting in hundreds of other political candidates refusing to release their returns in the future:

He also said on the air that Trump will likewise make his tax returns public once an IRS audit is complete. However, Trump himself has recently stated he will not release his tax returns before the November election.

Regularly demeaning?...An A-hole?

This is the best you've got? Something from MONTHS before the election, and even THIS Congressman admitted that he would VOTE for Trump even WITHOUT the taxes being released?

YOU HAVE NO POINT TO MAKE HERE......They aren't required, he didn't give them, and HE WON.

Carry on......

Of course the can. But can they hire a skilled labor force to fill the expanded facilities? You're still looking at too small of a picture. The implosion of the textile industry meant a reduced need for skilled labor. Since that time and with automation, the number of people needed has been reduced and they skills needed with newer technologies have changed. I suppose one could build a factory and move people from China and Bangladesh to the USA to work in them.
Ok...maybe that's silly but so is the thought of beginning any expansion by going brick-and-mortar first. It seems logical that we'd need to create a business climate that's more competitive with those companies overseas that dominate the textile and clothing industries. If that happens, those with available investment capital is more likely to come forward to take advantage of that climate. Government cannot make our shirts and pants but they do control business climates through their authority to regulate industry, and make trade agreements with foreign nations. Some people are saying it's the regulations and trade agreements that have created a poor climate for many businesses and blaming these as the reason why sustainable good paying jobs have become more scarce. I say that makes more sense than some feeling that business people have a responsibility to create these jobs no matter what.