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- Bring the damned jobs back here to the states and prices would level off. But then I'm probably talking out of my azz.
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- Solar Panels are very expensive
and it takes about 15 years to pay back
The only option for home owners is to try a
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- America has dropped the ball on solar tech! This is the 21st century people, every home in the US should have solar power....and guess what....no more rolling blackouts!!
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- GrizzlyBearsRule: "Here in South Carolina, we are attracting large companies because we are anti-union and not needed. We have great wages and benefits without the crooked unions."
Yeah...yeah...yeah....south carolina is ranked 46th out of the 50 states in Per Capita Personal Income by State -- well below the U.S. median -- helping republicans in their race to the bottom as a 3rd world country! Ten years ago south carolina was ranked 40th, so they are going in the wrong direction.
Despite your political rhetoric, jobs in south carolina pay poorly and have no benefits, and using the declining unions as your typical scapegoat, only proves you have a political agenda!
The FACTS are right here:
http://bber.unm.edu/econ/us-pci.htm - Reply to this comment
- The Chinese will always be able to produce things at a cost far less than U.S.-made products. They're still running their labor force as if it were the late 1800s/early 1900s in America. Child labor, extremely low wages, horrendous working conditions, manufacturing plants spewing out toxic pollutants, and a complete disregard for workers as human beings. If you want the jobs back in the U.S., that's what you'd have to return to here.
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- when are these manufacturers going to realize ours is a service economy dominated by lawyers, MBAs, bankers, wall street traders, politicians and other paper and money pushes which have brought unprecedented prosperity.Only manufacturing of interest is in Mil-Ind tax funded industries.
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- We need some trade protection laws.
The chinese trample on their people to make cheap things. - Reply to this comment
- If the Chinese want to subsidize our conversion to solar panel, and support our installation contractors while doing it, that is great. It will reduce our dependence on fossil fuel faster. We should change the U.S. law to encourage it, not prevent it.
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- Screw China
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- Another useless snapshot that we've seen over and over again that highlights the same old problem people have been screaming about for 30 years, to no avail.
The endlessly downward trend and the result of stabbing the middle class in the back on wages and jobs for the last 30 years.
If the Rich had kept the jobs here, took a little less profit and paid people living wages all these years, guess what? The middle class could afford to drop the extra cash for the better solar cells wouldn't they? The Rich would have made even more money in that environment. Just ask Henry Ford how his 5.00 day worked out for him.
According to the rocket scientists who think the Rich have to have all the money and then tinkle down on us with it, ok. Where is it? It's sitting in Wall Street investment accounts or in overseas accounts, that's where it is. Not being spent here.
The dilemma is because for 30 years our spineless Govt and the greedy Rich took the money and the easy road and off-shored our jobs and threw the Nation under the bus. They should have kept them here and slapped import tariffs on anything made by slave labor overseas to level the playing field. - Reply to this comment
