[RagingBull]

The toyota factory uses American labor to produce cars for the American market. Profits go back to Japan.

The US manufacturing plant in China uses Chinese labor to produce goods. The goods and profits are sent back to the US.

"good" and "bad" depend on whether you're the consumer, the capitalist, the worker, or the unemployed worker.

[lewislynn]

I was only trying to make the point that Sowell's Toyota example/comparison was a poor one..he should know better and so should anyone else paying attention.

Unlike American corporations, Toyota is not outsourcing their labor for the Japanese market. If Ford or GM , for example, want to build plants in China or Japan for those markets so be it.

I never used the words good or bad, though you put them in quotes.

[lewislynn]

Toyota building plants here is business expansion. I'll bet not one Japanese worker was layed off because of a new plant in America...That's the difference.