Posted on 11/28/2013 8:38:36 AM PST by steelhead_trout
Many people feel strongly about not shopping on Thanksgiving. Well, I have a cause of my own. Not doing business with any company that offshores its call centers. After dealing with some script-reading cretin out in God-Knows-Where because Old Navy's online credit card payment isn't working, I've decided that enough is enough. With so many Americans out of work, businesses should set up call centers here in the USA, not in some Third World slum half a world away. This may not be PC, but we all know it's true.
Bring back American jobs.
We have sent American jobs to other countries now, for an entire generation.
Stop that. Bring back American jobs.
Good luck.
Start with your internet provider.
Boycott...everyone?
How about the ‘weeners, such as Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is hardly a third world hell-hole, and those folks have been doing it for generations now (they are often bi-lingual as well).
I support capitalism. It is a company’s fiduciary responsibility to find ways to maximize profit. If unions, healthcare laws, and minimum wage laws make it financially irresponsible to staff call centers in the U.S., then they should offshore these jobs.
Better idea: boycott liberal job-killing policies.
No.
We have been justifying offshoring now for an entire generation.
The result is, the only forces acting on America, are the forces behind the democrat party.
The republicans need to return to America. America needs to produce a lot of things, which we have sent elsewhere.
America needs factories, and America needs jobs.
Thank you. That was the post of the day. Post 7 can be translated as “If companies can’t pay their American call center drones 25 cents/hr. and give them no bennies whatsoever, then they should offshore. Viva unfettered capitalism.” Yawn.
” If unions, healthcare laws, and minimum wage laws make it financially irresponsible to staff call centers in the U.S., then they should offshore these jobs.
Better idea: boycott liberal job-killing policies.”
BINGO, bolobaby, you are right on!
This is exactly why manufacturing, call centers and many other good jobs were moved outside of the US, because of the extreme regulations, companies can’t make a profit and if there is no profit, they can’t stay in business.
steelhead_trout — boycott the Dems who are the ones pushing and enacting job killing regulations — including some recent ones from the EPA.
EPA preparing to unleash a deluge of new regulations
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/27/epa-preparing-to-unleash-a-deluge-of-new-regulations/
Well then America needs to enact laws requiring American businesses to operate right here, in order to participate in American business.
I’m serious.
For an entire generation, we’ve sent jobs elsewhere.
We are now 17 trillion (and rapidly increasing) in debt.
America needs jobs. Now. We need to change our laws, to encourage jobs right here.
We do nobody any favors, by at this point making China stronger.
We need to make America stronger once again.
Now.
” laws requiring American businesses to operate right here”
How about changing the regulatory climate in the US, so business COULD operate profitably in the US?
Passing laws to “require” American businesses to operate right here would directly result in all of those businesses going OUT of business. Then what?!
you might have to change your insurance company then too...
I’m with you. That’s one of the reasons I quit dealing with Dell years ago. I either would get “Steve” in New Delhi, or some gal in Viet Nam that I could only make out about every eighth word from.
Screw the multinational conglomerates who got their starts in this country and now could care less about the U.S. or its people (just its money).
I’m just saying we need to start as a nation, to encourage business right here in America.
Not elsewhere.
We need jobs right here in America. We need to figure some way to encourage American businesses, with our own government involved in such as way they are NOT INVOLVED IN PICKING WINNERS AND LOSERS.
But our system needs to be changed, to encourage American production once again.
Go shopping in any store in America.
Everything in imported.
That is screwed up, frankly. We need to produce things right here in America.
This is a great idea. While we’re central planning the economy, do you have any other ideas on what to force upon American businesses? We can put together all our best ideas on how to improve the national economy and commit to implementing them over a reasonable period of time. We’ll call it a “Five Year Plan”.
If America can return to being a pro-business country, we will build many new factories and we will have many new jobs...but the jobs won't be in the factories.
Modern factories will be almost fully automated.
how do you boycott your health care provider and company benefits center.Just to name a few.
See # 14 too
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