Peter, Paul, and Mary, are the people driving our jobs overseas,
because, they're the consumers who ALWAYS choose to purchase the cheaper products and services we get from overseas labor. Give people a choice between a $2500 ultrabook (higher cost of labor, and benefits, and other taxes and other costs would make it that high or more) made in the U.S.A. and one made in China for $700, and the great majority of the time, Peter and Paul and Mary, will opt for the cheaper PC made in China. So, by demand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, have made the decision for the executives to send the production of those PCs overseas. If they can't compete with the lower priced products, then the executives are left with no choice, and to get Peter and Paul and Mary to buy their brand, those executives have been "forced" to send their production overseas.
It's okay to bash the executive and the greedy SOBs, but, they're just making sure that, Peter, Paul, and Mary, get what they wanted. Then, there is that other very important person in the equation, that being the owners and investors of a company. If they don't get a return on their investments, then the company and all of the jobs will go bye-bye, and Peter and Paul and Mary will end up purchasing their wants and needs from strictly overseas providers. However, the investors would rather have the company become competitive by having their production done in a less expensive environment, and thus, saving many jobs at home and allowing Peter and Paul and Mary to have their goods and services produced by an "American brand", even if it has foreign labor doing the work.
Peter and Paul and Mary would not even have the option of "knocking at door" if all of the goods and services were to come from overseas, with no American involvement at all. Right now, for many companies to remain competitive, they have to offshore/outsource their production facilities and many of their jobs. Thanks to Peter and Paul and Mary, and many other factors, such as the heavy hand of big government.
The one-sided, simple-minded, argument about the "big, bad, greedy executives" always fails to consider the total environment in which businesses have to compete.
