SX - you Americans are lucky

[xaxxat]

Obviously what you want is the old days when a union worker's "job" was to turn the machine on in the morning and turn it off at night and read the paper all day. Why not just say you want pay without coming to "work" at all?

I belonged to 3 different unions ( Steelworkers, Textiles and Oil & Atomic ) and I never saw anyone have a job like that. Never. Ever...

Where did you see this done?

 

[bassplayer8953]

Who needs to export jobs overseas? We've got millions upon millions of illegal (as the media likes to call them) "immigrants" willing to build basses for $1.85 and hour. Does that worry you?

You bet it bothers me. Millions of people making less-than-minimum wage, leeching off the healthcare & educational systems, contributing nothing, & overrunning available resources. If it doesn't bother you, you ought to have your head examined. Controlled immigration is a cornerstone of American society. But not the anarchy we have today.

Obviously what you want is the old days when a union worker's "job" was to turn the machine on in the morning and turn it off at night and read the paper all day. Why not just say you want pay without coming to "work" at all?

I want nothing of the sort. Americans deserve a fair wage, & they ought to earn it. But they should have the right to earn it. Not to see their jobs sent to the 3rd world by unscrupulous employers.

Let's DO try to keep this discussion bass-related. At least bass-economics and still probably belongs in another forum.

I was ready to agree, and let the matter drop, then you came out with this piece of @#$%^&*(VVVVV)

So I guess your idea is to slap a $500 import duty on every SX bass going to Rondo to "protect" American jobs. So should every Fender Squire have a tax to make it cost the same as a MIA Fender? Same thing for MIM basses? Is this really going to help the "broad perspective" of the economy or just the paycheck of a few bass builders? What about the paycheck of the more numerous bass players?

People bristle at the idea of tarriffs on imported goods to protect American jobs. Understand this: corporations understand 1 thing: money. The only thing that would encourage them to do the right thing is $$$ penalties on outsourced manufacturing. Paid into fund training & jobs for displaced workers. Used to improve roads, infrastructure, projects that require workers. Better paid for by corporations manufacturing on the cheap: overseas, then by how our welfare & unemployment roles are funded today: by you and me. Assuming, of course, you have a job...

Edit: This thread has moved beyond discussion about bass guitars, to economics & corporate politics. Fascinating stuff, but this is really not the place. So this will be my last post on this thread.