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it's really sad to read through all these posts...
and not see one poster mention the real reason why we don't make anything..
businesses (manufacturing/producers of tangible goods) , are not locating to the US, or are moving away from the US to build their products.
Why is this?
It's because America did it to herself.
The businesses leave b.c America told them that they were selfish pricks who didn't help anyone but their own bank accounts. Thus America taxed and regulated (stepped their foot inside someone else's house) businesses till the owners eventually gave up, and couldn't be raped any longer. They headed for more greener pastures overseas.
America just didn't know how good she had it, till she lost it.
Thank you Big Government for all you've done!
Couldn't one argue that businesses that head oversees in order to set up shop in countries where working conditions are deplorable and children area allowed to work 12 to 15 hours a day are run by pricks? Maybe you have it backwards.
Couldn't one argue that businesses that head oversees in order to set up shop in countries where working conditions are deplorable and children area allowed to work 12 to 15 hours a day are run by pricks? Maybe you have it backwards.
are you kidding?
those businesses are the best thing that ever happened to those foreigners
they can afford to give their families food/shelter/clothes, because of them
they were starving before they went over there and were sleeping on mud and wearing scraps for clothing...
I'd rather work in ****ty conditions and be able to feed my family and provide other needs for them, than not be able to feed them at all..
those workers are not forced to work there, they choose to
stop your michael moore fantasy of dissing americans for helping other countries out...
sure i'd wish the jobs stayed here, but you idiot libs and big gov't repubs kicked them out with your rules and theft..
Couldn't one argue that businesses that head oversees in order to set up shop in countries where working conditions are deplorable and children area allowed to work 12 to 15 hours a day are run by pricks? Maybe you have it backwards.
Most US companies have learned their lessons after companies like Nike were exposed. Walmart, for example, does frequent audits of all its overseas suppliers and will cut-off any of them that do not meet its requirements for how to treat employees. There have been problems in the past with slavery, terrible conditions, etc., but that has happened here in the US too. I believe most companies have found a proper balance and can now produce things cheaply overseas while employing people who work voluntarily and under good conditions.
I don't care about buying American, I buy from wherever I get the best value. US minimum wage laws have made it impossible to produce some products here, they are just not worth the cost. To starving people in developing countries, making half of minimum wage is huge and they compete for those jobs. By buying overseas I'm not only getting a good value, I'm potentially taking a starving kid off the streets and providing him with a job so that he can eat.
John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN) for 6 am.
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and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in AMERICA
And support the unions and the administration who stole from and screwed the original investors?
No thanks.
GM is going public soon, maybe next year; Chrysler as soon as it can stand on its own feet. The "original investors", if you mean the bondholders who were dumb enough to keep holding GM all the way into the toilet, got a good deal on the other end of the new GM company. As for the horrible evil administration, see
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