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Could it be you're trying to associate the two?
Good eye.
As I am sure you know, there's a lot of companies who have both layed off people (due to the economy) and opened up manufacturing in China...[cropped some stuff]... Given your attitude towards Dell,
I'm not just picking on Dell.
So deindustrialization isn't something to worry about, a "yawner"? [sorry that's another thread but it's related]
you couldn't possibly drive an AMERICAN (Ford or GM) car could you? They manufacture in China and have layed off people.
Transferring our manufacturing base to a country we're going to be at war with in a few years is just plain retarded, and self destructive. Who benefits?
And, for the record....'84 chevy pickup, no smog control crap.
I'm also a rapid, unapologetic, fire breathing,
capitalist, unlike the majority of our CEO's in corporate america who see themselves as agents of "social change" or are just flat out crooks. Capitalism is the most moral system of resource distribution and colection ever devised. It's a shame Corps don't practice it.
Paying a kid in india 50 cents a day to sew basketballs is not exploitation, moving plants to a totalitarian country that supplies cheap labor by rounding up dissedents, putting them in prison and "hiring" them out, is. Not only exploitive but damned evil.
The supporting gun crontrol thing is just the crowning turd in the waterpipe.
I appreciated both your reply and your stance but please think carefully about the impact of American manufacturing in China for a moment. After talking with some (ordinary) Chinese nationals, you might find it a mistake to classify all Chinese manfacturing workers as "slave laborers." Can you think of a better way to reach inside and influence a totalitarian regime while bringing money and profits out? Have you considered how manufacturing some parts offshore at lower costs can improve product sales to the point that onshore jobs are increased over what they would have been otherwise?