Leveling the playing field....

Great post today from James Siminoff, Founder of SimulScribe (soon to be PhoneTag)...

When I was flying back to LA last week there was a guy sitting next to me who is some famous guy in the “Buy US/Pro Union” movement. I am not sure who he was but people kept coming up to him and telling him thanks for “helping America”. What made me laugh is that every-time someone came up to talk to him he had to take his headphones out from his Chinese made iPod and look up from his Lenovo (Chinese company that bought IBM’s notebook business) to talk to these people. I loved the irony. The way to fix the trade issues is to create an even playing field for manufacturing. If you want to bring goods into the US they need to be made in factories that uphold to our standards of environmental, OSHA, etc. Doing that would balance things out very quickly and American factories would be able to compete in market where the base rules are the same. Its like taking the steroids out of sports.

When I was flying back to LA last week there was a guy sitting next to me who is some famous guy in the “Buy US/Pro Union” movement. I am not sure who he was but people kept coming up to him and telling him thanks for “helping America”.

What made me laugh is that every-time someone came up to talk to him he had to take his headphones out from his Chinese made iPod and look up from his Lenovo (Chinese company that bought IBM’s notebook business) to talk to these people. I loved the irony.

The way to fix the trade issues is to create an even playing field for manufacturing. If you want to bring goods into the US they need to be made in factories that uphold to our standards of environmental, OSHA, etc. Doing that would balance things out very quickly and American factories would be able to compete in market where the base rules are the same. Its like taking the steroids out of sports.