It was frustrating while shooting the moon set behind the Golden Gate Bridge earlier this month to have a steady...
It was frustrating while shooting the moon set behind the Golden Gate Bridge earlier this month to have a steady stream of container ships flowing in and out of the Golden Gate Bridge. Then it was sobering to comprehend the millions of families affected as those manufacturing jobs were moved overseas.
American consumers can restore hundreds of thousands of jobs to the country by buying American-made goods. You can build an entire house, down to every nail, from American-made products:
Where You Can Buy Made in America Building Products
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/10/how-to-build-a-made-in-america-home/
As a side benefit, you'll reduce oil consumption and air pollution by eliminating the trans-ocean shipping, support the value of our currency by reducing trade imbalances and the flow of capital out of the country, and reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses which may cost all 7 billion of us dearly in necessary adaptations to climate change over the coming decades. (This is not to say that any of the current proposed "solutions" are even remotely appropriate. There is not a strong case for vilification or punishment of residents of developed nations while a huge percentage of global jobs and economic growth now reside in developing nations... for global challenges the solutions must be global, and any costs must come from future global economic activity).
Transport Tuesday, curated by Gene Bowker. #TransportTuesday
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Very well said my friend! Love the shot too!
ReplyDeleteThe whole image is pure amazing Jeffrey Sullivan
ReplyDeleteExcellent shot, valuable message.
ReplyDeleteI must say it goes the other way too ? Eh?:)
ReplyDeleteI also have a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and a Po Shipping vessel under it. Po = buttocks in German.
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well, your are probably right, or maybe wrong, who knows. I sure don't but as far as I remember Bretton Woods is in the US, isn't it? ;) the ship is not spoiling your shot by the way, nice image in all sens
ReplyDeleteNice picture - I 'love' that bridge, always liked the town and area (who doesn't :-)).
ReplyDeleteAnd on your deeper thought, just the next bridge: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/20/san-francisco-oakland-bay-bridge-controversially-made-in-china/
If I understand it correctly, for about 7% of the total sum they moved moved the job to China. Obviously nobody will ever understand those contracts and negotiations, but obviously the unions didn't do their members a great service - and neither did the authorities to their area. So, yes, although a $400M savings, I figure much more was lost...
Well, harmony of taxes ,wages and real estate costs take just time. As you see China is now looking for cheaper countries to produce their goods which was a few years ago a very odd case. Think in a smaller scale: you think living in Manhattan you can produce all the goods and services by yourselves without any export or import. The boundaries are just wider today and in the future this is just one market. We can´t help it. Shut the borders!? Problems just have to be solved in the world we are living. We can´t tell the third world not to play with us. Let´s just be good neighbors!:) Sorry about the burst:):):)
ReplyDeleteChris Summers It's a shame Kodak never really got into the camera hardware business in a big way. The biggest portion of my required gear is my SUV, a 2002 Ford Explorer, although a healthy portion of the parts and labor may have occurred elsewhere. Fortunately or unfortunately I have been unable to send much business to Canon over recent years as they have failed to offer an upgrade to my 2008 5D mark II. So while I incur something like $15-20,000 in expenses per year due to local travel and transportation, mainly in the Western United States, maybe $1000/year on average goes to Canon, mainly the cost of a new body spread over 3 years. I use a small $20 day pack for most of my carrying; haven't needed or bought much other camera-related gear in years. You've touched on another key issue though, taxes. No way should the world's most profitable company ExxonMobil be allowed to do any business at all in the United States and pay zero in U.S. taxes. In fact, my understanding is that the U.S. government paid them after write-offs (I wish I could personally fire all of Congress for that travesty). Individuals pay an Alternative Minimum Tax, now corporations have won the rights of people, so where's the corporate AMT?
ReplyDeletePage after page of the stories of individuals affected by the discrimination (age and racial discrimination) inherent in this shameful practice appear here:
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These programs take advantage of the people coming in too: they are unable to change jobs so they are in effect indentured slaves, unable to move to get paid fair market rates.
Immigrants come in and increase the population, requiring an increase in infrastructure: roads, schools, police, fire, and expanded utilities such as electric power generation. That cost is charged to the entire country. Unlike most developed countries, there is no need to have several hundred dollars in assets to qualify for immigration. What are your policies in Finland? Are they as open for labor and exports/imports as you are advocating for others? I suspect not; I've recently looked into emigration to Scandanavian countries in a global search for a place which may value my computer science degree and 20 years of high tech industry experience far more than the U.S. government has.
Jeffrey Sullivan I agree.. I´d like to see a control in financial activities in larger scale, but that seems to be quite fictional in the near future ´cause the short period interests in the political games are what they are. 1/99 % movement is on a right way and I think a big pulse for it came from Northern Africa earlier this year. The rubber band can´t stand too much tension!:)
ReplyDeleteChris Summers Life involves politics, and politics affect life (especially now). The only people benefiting from any lack of discussion of politics are the shadowy figures pulling strings behind the scenes. If anything we need more free speech, not less (I hope some of the police abusing peaceful demonstrators and film crews recently are punished to the fullest extent of the law... the people they're beating are the ones paying their salaries for protection of their legal rights).
ReplyDeleteThe "+1" applies to both the image and the comments you made.
ReplyDeleteA wonderfully fresh look at something we've seen pictured so many times.
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