Re: PING! Michael

Ed P wrote:

On 11/22/2024 8:49 PM, Michael Trew wrote:

On 11/22/2024 12:08 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2024-11-22, Carol <cshenk@virginia-beach.com> wrote:

Michael Trew wrote:

 
I shouldn't think that import tariffs will affect the price of
butter, unless it's butter from Europe, which is already sold
at a premium here.

 
I think the idea is 'buy American'.  Butter is mostly made here
for our markets.

 
Yeah, let us know how 'buy American' goes.  We just don't have
factories making stuff anymore.  People will pay the tariffs and
inflation will rise.

 
I guess the hope is that by making foreign parts unreasonably
expensive,  it will become less expensive to start manufacturing
them over here  again.  Apparently, since the microchip shortage,
new factories are  being built somewhere vaguely near Leo's part of
the US so we can make  our own semiconductors.
 
Recently, I bought a 1965 Packard Bell color television console. 
It was  all made in the USA, in Los Angeles.  It's a wonder that it
found its  way to the east coast all of these years later.  I like
the round color  picture tube with the corners cut off, it's so
quaint.
 
Sorry for the DSI1 style slide off-topic, but I guess my point is
that  we could make our own televisions and electronics in the US
again, like  we did in the "good 'ole days".

 
Sure, made in the USA has a lot of good benefits.  One is the price
of TV.  My first made in the USA television was a 19" portable, black
and white, of course.  Today, that would cost about $1200.
 
Would you buy that today and support local jobs, or would you buy the
55" flat screen for about $400?
 
If you are going to build a TV factory, don't put it in Florida.  I
just read that we have more job openings than job seekers
 
We have to keep the proper balance of jobs, costs, tariffs, taxes.

I agree on the cost and balance.  I'm sure it's not a total Tariff
blockaide.

I also had one of those old B&W TVs.  I had just enough money at 17 for
a crappy 17inch Color or a very nice *sharp* B&W 19 inch.  I went with
the B&W which lasted until we moved into this house.  It was a spare in
the bedroom eventually but traveled in the car cross country with us
when we moved from San Diego to Virginia Beach, rabbit ears and all.
The bigger TV would't fit in the car, so came with HHGs shipment later.

Oh, sent a link with current USA TV makers.