Your perspective is startlingly anti-American: this country will only survive if we look to the future of all of our children, even those on the left side of the median intelligence curve. This country doesn’t succeed because somebody, somewhere profits. It will only survive if the future includes all of us as Americans.
Carrier always had a choice. They could have kept American manufacturing and let all of us know that would cost more but they were getting American quality. Or they could do what they did and bail and lose my business and many more like me.
We have to start getting our act together as a country or we can kiss it goodbye.
Well, those are wonderful thoughts straight from fantasy-land. That’s not how HVAC or any other part of the US economy works.
For every person who will voluntarily pay more for a given product just because it was assembled in the US (which is no guarantee of higher quality, for instance witness US auto quality versus Japan or Germany in years past) there are 50 or 100 who will not. The undeniable proof of that is the success and dominance of Walmart, Target, Home Depot, etc., etc.
That spells bankruptcy for Carrier when it’s all said and done. Which means nobody at Carrier will have a job.
Incidentally, Carrier has offered all of those who will be laid off the chance to apply for other jobs at other Carrier facilities and to pay relocation costs for those who get another Carrier job. Carrier spent money hiring and training those people who will be laid off and has an interest in retaining the best of them. And so they will.