“Bring back jobs to America.”
Every time somebody says that I feel compelled to explain why the jobs left in the first place. In a word, “regulation.” The government regulates how many bathrooms of which sex, how you arrange your employees in your building (fire codes) what processes you can use. The government has a heavy hand too, an EPA inspector can show up from the city, county, state or federal government and all of these mostly green agenda punks can shut your doors instantly. Then there is the paperwork, ranging from how much did you pollute and what is your plan to stop it to how many blacks and other minorities do you employ? Just before my last company effectively ceased to exist it had hired HR and Environmental specialists, not to forget the people it had to hire to comply with Sarbanes Oxley. These people were expensive and contributed not one penny to the bottom line. And, you’d like to plate something? Forget about it. You want to make your parking lot a bit larger, you’ll have to file a $50,000 environmental impact statement. The jobs didn’t go overseas for more profit, they were driven over seas because the environment here was now too tough and expensive to live in.
I am really not interested in hearing why jobs left. No offense.
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America needs to rebuild. Now.
Bring American jobs back to America.
But it's important to understand that the "Made in the USA" label on a garment almost always means "Made in a Sweatshop in L.A. by Illegal Aliens." And it's immediately evident when looking at the stuff, to anyone who knows anything about sewing and cutting. The few quality manufacturers left in America have to price their products beyond what the bottom 99% are willing to pay.
The glib and oft-repeated assertion to "Bring back American jobs" will only happen now after American wages finally descend to (or more likely, below) world norms. Our nation offers nothing special any more, just a lot of burdensome regulation and taxation and an inadequately trained workforce. We have become a nation of 45-year-old office workers with few Third World skills to apply to real productive work once government socialism finishes driving most of the office work offshore.
Well said, General.
That needed to be said. Well put.
But if you had the time I bet you could go on, and on, and...
Wipe out regulation and you will get economic growth: EPA, IRS, Secretary of Education, Obamacare and Social Security. A strong willed Congress (not Boner or Mickey McConnell) and a strong president (don’t see a TP candidate winning) would do the trick. Alas, that is where I don’t think that is going to happen. Like the good Boy Scout, I stand prepared, vote for what’s right and talk to the LoFos when they will listen. Talk of a revolution with guns is nonsense, talk of a spiritual revolution is possible. So much work and so few workers. What are you doing?