Democrats Dont Have an Easy Answer for the Rust Belt

[Red Oak]

38. You are wrong.

Why do you say the jobs aren't coming back? What sort of defeatism is that? It is one of the reasons that we lost to an orange idiot. Why would anyone vote for a party who has the tagline - "You are screwed, get over it."

Say you want to go capture some Chinese market share, here is what their political "party" government there does to support their people:

1. You will build your factory here (in China)
2. We (a Chinese entity, often state owned), will own 50% of it with you
3. You will transfer technology to this entity
4. You will abide by our regulations (such as access to software code for purposes of censorshp)
Then, you can get into our market until such time as we don't want you there anymore so we can boost our local version. See Facebook, Uber, Google and others on the tech side. The hard goods manufacturers have the same issues.

Forgetting China for the moment. Our government officials, of both parties, have been selling the American working family short for decades. Our government should work to balance trade among our trading partners. Instead, we have taken a hands off approach, mostly thanks to Wall Street lobbying, to seek ever cheaper labor, American workers be damned. Great for business owners, CEOs and campaign contributions, kind of sucks for everyone else.

Yes, if more of our products were built in the USA the price would be higher, but to a person without a job and with no income, to what degree does a low price matter?

We need to force business to repatriate and balance trade, we need to provide universal health care, we need to make education (not just college, but trades as well) affordable. Jobs, health, education.

We do these things, and be inclusive while we are doing it, and we will win many, many elections.