I’m not from Oregon. I moved out here from the rust belt. You know, that region of the country decimated by outsourcing to mexico, canada, and china. But before you toss the “unions are the cause of all our problems” out there, consider the fact that it takes multiple nations scattered across the earth, and millions of third world laborers, to perform same tasks that a handful of skilled Americans could easily accomplish.
The economy in texas is no better than a third world colony. Like most business interests, people chase the best return, at the cost of everyone else. So don’t whine when you have to pay unemployment and welfare to all of those people that you kicked to the curb, solely to make a profit by exploiting third world labor.
You sound like a typical yankee liberal.
You even despise Texas, the state that prevents the left from taking over everything.
“...consider the fact that it takes multiple nations scattered across the earth, and millions of third world laborers, to perform same tasks that a handful of skilled Americans could easily accomplish...”
You said, “...Like most business interests, people chase the best return...”
Well, that’s sort of the point of “business”, isn’t it? As far as the added, “...at the cost of everyone else...”, both the labor market and the end-consumer market get to decide if that cost is too high by patronizing the business or not.
If you don’t like cheap 3rd-world crap, don’t buy it and don’t work for the biz selling it. But it seems the vast majority of shoppers don’t mind. I don’t think it’s right and I wish the vast majority of shoppers would resoundingly reject cheap 3rd-world crap, but the fact is *they don’t mind*. They haven’t for decades. They have freely chosen to embrace it.
You can not fix that by trying to artificially force the end consumer’s market choices (union driven, govt driven or otherwise). I think you fix that by winning the end-consumer’s shopping decision of their own free will and volition. Easier said than done.
“The economy in texas is no better than a third world colony.”
Based upon what??? Your subscription to the New York Times??? Or the Oregonian Democrat???
I highly recommend you cut back on the amount of bowls you smoke a day...Your hallucinations are becoming almost comical...