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"Made in the USA" is becoming much more popular nowadays. In fact it is a selling tactic.
In all truth I just wish corporate entities would act with a little more enlghtened self-interest. Especially if they are incorporated here in America.
By that I mean I have no problem with the profit motive, but it seems self-defeating to me to cut-back on home-grown workers and industrial options here, in favor of shifting industry and hiring workers overseas. I know in the short-term this increases over-all profitability, but eventually, as jobs in the USA shrink while our population continues to increase, there won't be enough actual income to hold up the US market economy.
I'd be all in favor of tax breaks in exchange for re-industrializing America, and increasing blue-collar as well as white collar job opportunities.
It is for some that can afford to do so and will limit their choices to those available...
when I see virulent rants about the successful I wonder who you are really blaming for your lot in life
Please, provide me with a list of every corporation whose production and employment is completely American and I will BUY from them. Of course I am not going to travel half way around the USA to get each item I need on a frequent basis. I bought into that Buy American ideal too. But when most corporations claim to be American because they might have some Koreans or Chinese assembling products in the USA using parts from India and Indonesia....what ya gonna do?
How racist? Plenty of white welfare queens. Go ahead and pigeonhole the issue though. You're good at that.
horses are a race? far left meme-finding racism when no exists in order to stifle comments the left has a hard time rebutting
Bingo. Globalization benefits downscale consumers most.:mrgreen:
Good evening, AP.:2wave:
In all truth I just wish corporate entities would act with a little more enlghtened self-interest. Especially if they are incorporated here in America.
By that I mean I have no problem with the profit motive, but it seems self-defeating to me to cut-back on home-grown workers and industrial options here, in favor of shifting industry and hiring workers overseas. I know in the short-term this increases over-all profitability, but eventually, as jobs in the USA shrink while our population continues to increase, there won't be enough actual income to hold up the US market economy.
I'd be all in favor of tax breaks in exchange for re-industrializing America, and increasing blue-collar as well as white collar job opportunities.
In theory there's no reason why a multi-national corporation should favor one market over another.eace
Good evening 2m. The board is a bit more lively than I had expected tonight...
So what? My family put 8 kids through Yale and they formed an Alumni association, too!
Hell, my ancestors FOUNDED Yale!
Why would I provide you a list of anything when you're missing the basic point? We, as a nation, want what we want at the lowest price possible, and we want it now. This mentality has encouraged companies to outsource to fulfill that demand...
Bingo. Globalization benefits downscale consumers most.:mrgreen:
Good evening, AP.:2wave:
So what? My family put 8 kids through Yale and they formed an Alumni association, too!
Hell, my ancestors FOUNDED Yale!
In theory...but in reality stop claiming to be American, then charging us the highest prices in the world because we've been taught by their advertisors "credit is good," and to slavishly spend more than we earn. No jobs, and those who are working spending more than they have....meanwhile government is using what taxes it gets on social programs while the debt ceiling keeps climbing and the GNP is decreasing....Collapse is on the way.
Then these "American" corporations will just move headquarters to Shanghai or Sao Paulo and keep on profiting.
Yeah? Strangely it seems the "lowest price possible" for consumer goods in the USA is often higher than the high price for similar products in most other countries around the world.
Nope. It benefits people with capital since our treaties globalized capital but not worker protection. The result is the rich the US and the sweatshop nations get richer, while the bottom quintile suffers with lower income. Study after study shows this, so denying it makes you look more than usually ill-informed.
The problem with comparative advantage is that it works in the aggregate - both nations benefit. But the benefits and burdens are unequally allocated among income brackets. Which is why we need to ameliorate that windfall for the rich and the burdens on workers by a more progressive income tax and a huge investment in worker education (among other things)
In short your post is pure hokum.
Blabbety-blabbety-blah. Downscale consumers benefit most from highly globalized retailers like Wal-Mart. My post did not address either capital or worker protection. Stick to the topic.:roll:
GNP decreasing? Highest prices in the world? No jobs? (Unemployment in North Dakota is only 3%, and McDonald's servers earn $20/hour when they can be found.) I understand your concern, but your post is factually challenged.:roll:
What? McDonalds servers earn $20 and hour? In North Dakota? I've lived in ND, small wonder no one wants to move there. Sure there's a new OIL industry, but other than that it's a lotta flat nowhere that freezes in the (loong) winter and is tolerable in the summer.
And citing ONE state with an oil boom economy ignores almost all the others with the opposite situation. Michigan, Illnois, Ohio...etc.
What? McDonalds servers earn $20 and hour? In North Dakota? I've lived in ND, small wonder no one wants to move there. Sure there's a new OIL industry, but other than that it's a lotta flat nowhere that freezes in the (loong) winter and is tolerable in the summer.
And citing ONE state with an oil boom economy ignores almost all the others with the opposite situation. Michigan, Illnois, Ohio...etc.
Are you purposely being obtuse and avoiding the discussion of why companies have outsourced?
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No, companies have outsourced because labor is extremely cheap overseas in countries with large populations full of desperate people. They are willing to work for pennies on the dollars an American would expect to be paid. Corporations also don't like dealing with environmental regulations, which are almost non-exitent in China, India and Indonesia. Corporations don't like Unions and their demands for "benefits" and "living wages," there are no unions overseas. And corporations don't like taxes. In short (and understandably) they don't like anything that cuts into profits, pisses off shareholders and might reduce the salaries of upper management.
I could go on but hopefully you already KNOW many of the other advantages.
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