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Shipping jobs offshore
I have no qualm with a company wanting to save money. Neither am I angry with some entrepeneur in another country grabbing some business opportunity which comes his way.
I do, however, have a few problems with the whole thing:
1. If lots of US companies ship lots of jobs overseas, the US government will lose lots of tax dollars. However, the people's appetite for government services never seems to decrease; it continually increases.
2. If lots of US companies ship lots of jobs overseas, you won't have as much money being spent in the US. This will hurt the same companies, and other companies as well, when they can't sell as many of their products and services.
3. If this trend continues much longer, we will reach a point where other countries overpower us financially. This will also reduce our military abilities and our influence on the world scene.
4. Many of these jobs are going to communist China. The workers there are virtual slaves of the government, yet we speak of China as if it is such a great country. I can't understand how an enlightened Western Civilization (I'm speaking of Western Europe and the US) can keep their heads in the sand about how terrible communist China is!
I can hear the naysayers responding now, especially to point 3: SO WHAT? If the US can't keep the business, it doesn't deserve it!
My response to that? Do you think this is a great country to live in? Are you free here? Does the worker have rights? Do we have a decent government? (I didn't say a perfect government.)
If you agree that the US is a great country for these reasons and more, then you should want to strengthen it as much as possible. Because if we don't, it won't be long till we are left behind, biting the economic dust.
And do you think that those who have acquired the US business will give their people and their workers as many rights as the US gives her people and workers? NOT HARDLY! Especially not Communist China!