The decision to locate a business in one community or another is based upon a number of factors, and local communities entrust to their elected officials to Kamagra Shop work out the details. All negotiations are a matter of give and take. The terms under which Wal-Mart, for example, settles into a community are highly favourable. One might say uniquely so.
When times are good, low unemployment, and the largely part time workers at Wal-Mart have a second full-time wage earner in the same family who can include the medical insurance-less part time worker on their company’s insurance plan, communities have medical costs which are borne elsewhere. That time is not now. With many full-time wage earners out of work and therefore with out medical insurance these costs are now borne by the local community. With many full-time wage earners out of work other support services such as housing, food assistance, and income itself is borne by local communities.
At one time it was a matter of pride to own that American made product from GE, Westinghouse, RCA, May Tag, and Schwinn, but these have been replaced by outwardly cheaper products from China primarily, in the case of Wal-Mart. The allure of the cheaper and therefore more profitable Chinese products is when examined under the economic microscope more myth than reality. Ceramic tiles made in China land in the usa at a cost of just over five dollars. The American manufacturer can deliver them at a cost of five dollars.
And, we do not have to pay the higher tax bill because we have to cover the medical, housing, food and income costs of the displaced American worker because another American tile factory has shut down. An economic analysis that does not include all costs is fiction, not sound fiscal management. These are decisions that are not made in Washington, or in our state capitol but in our local communities.
Now, imagine a world in which 51% of all products sold in Wal-Mart were made in the usa, or more correctly within the North american Free Trade Association, since by agreement made in the usa now includes Canada and Mexico, not withstanding the complication introduced by the maquiladores. The argument that this would make goods sold in Wal-Mart cost more is a false one, or at least an over simplification. It also would mean that the American worker would rather not pay a cent more or less here or there and be employed, than to save a cent more or less here or there on goods that he cannot afford because he is unemployed. Eric LaMont Gregory is a 1988 graduate of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, Green College, Oxford University, Oxford, England. A clinical physiologist, he worked in the world famous John Radcliffe Hospital as a clinical research fellow in the Department of Paediatrics specialising in unraveling the intricacies of the care of critically ill pre-term newborn babies. He worked for the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help advance the care of newborn babies in urban and rural areas of the developing world. He turned his attention to matters of public health and post-conflict reconstruction and stability efforts. He has travelled extensively, and lectured on worked in humanitarian relief operations in Bosnia, Rwanda and Afghanistan, among others. Eric LaMont Gregory is a candidate for the US Senate – Ohio. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, the historic “Big 3” American automobile manufacturers are on a deathwatch. Their collective futures appear to be solely dependent on the political whims of the united states Congress. As they burn cash, are strangled by huge legacy labor obligations, confront perceived quality issues and offer cars that are out of step with consumer tastes and needs, the future looks bleak for each.
There are many reasons for the demise of these legendary manufacturing behemoths. I believe the most important cause is that for too long they did not emphasize unique, elegant design. It does not cost any more to make an ugly car than a handsome car. When i sit at a traffic light today I cannot differentiate one American model from another. As a child growing up in 1950’s America, I clearly remember going for Sunday rides and identifying every car make by the rake of the fenders, the unique headlight treatment, grille fascia and the vivid two-tone sherbet colored paint jobs specific to each model. What happened?