“The GOP is in part causing this, by shipping American jobs to China.”
Nobody is “shipping” jobs to China. The federal and state and in some cases local governments have made the atmosphere toxic for employers. Any number of federal agencies can shut you down instantly for a raft of reasons, some of them political, like Gibson Guitar. The government will pay an aggrieved employee’s legal bills so he can sue you. (Since they have no incentive to settle you’ll pay whether guilty or no.) Then there are labor laws so convoluted that you’re going to be guilty of breaking at least one. I could go on, but won’t.
If you want jobs back they’d flood back if the various governments got out of the way. But once laws are on the books, once agencies are established they have immortality. They won’t go away. Therefore jobs will never come back.
Exactly. Tort and labor laws along with egregious regulation virtually guarantee many new job openings will be filled by robots, illegals or moved offshore. Anything mechanical can be done better by a robot or cheaper by an illegal or offshore worker and neither will sue you.
I also tell the FR-gruntled that those jobs are never coming back. My advice is take up an analytical and licensed career -something robots and non-citizens cannot do.
Wage differentials with China are more of a factor. Manufacturing is too much cheaper there. You have added other factors on jobs going overseas but it is not all due to over-regulation...as repulsive as those useless eater, porn surfing regulators are
Boy, was that a niave post from you. Typical though. Let me fill you in - US corporations absolutley LOVE regulations and taxes because is squeezes the little upstarts out of the manufacuring market. It also gives them a fig leaf to cover their shamless exploitation of the infinite turd world slave labor pool and gets rubes like you onbaord defending the massive screw job. You are what is known as a useful idiot.
Exactly! There is a severe lack of trust of government. Why take the risk when at any time some agency will descend upon you? Especially when you are not of the ‘right mind’. See GM dealers who lean Republican that were closed by ‘restructuring’ from the Bailout.
Some people just look the other way.