spoken like someone that has no clue about the numbers.
i have been forced to run operations using offshore labor. show me how your college educated kid would ever compete against similar education & experience.. while only being paid $350-500 per month (60 hour weeks normal). good luck. hey, maybe he/she could re-train into another field...
America gets nothing by shipping our goods to countries where the median income is less then $8000/yr. the only plus comes to the small group of large investors that may yield a better dividend from saved wages. meanwhile, Americans lose their local jobs.. further reducing the supply of jobs in the US... while experiencing an influx of labor from south of the border. that all sums up to massive downward pressure on the wages of the lower and middle classes. meanwhile, we also lose the next generation of products and ideas... as they usually come from those working on the current generation
i have done every job from construction, restaurants, stock boy, parts runner, gas station attendant, software developer, architect, to CTO. anytime i hear some globalist going on about how we need to have free trade and import labor and offshore jobs.. because these are jobs Americans do not want to do... it just pisses me off. it’s a spit in the face of true Americans that have no problem rolling up their sleeves to get the job done.
and yes.. normally these globalists have never had to rely on the wages from an honest days manual labor
all America would have to do to resolve these issues would be to:
1) heavily fine any organization employing illegals (it is the law after all)
2) add tariffs to imported goods which would allow Americans to compete
Well said.
spoken like someone who doesn't read :-)
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anytime i hear some globalist going on about how we need to have free trade and import labor and offshore jobs.. because these are jobs Americans do not want to do... it just pisses me off. it’s a spit in the face of true Americans that have no problem rolling up their sleeves to get the job done.
willing to do it at the same rates as the others? no.
all America would have to do to resolve these issues would be to:
1) heavily fine any organization employing illegals (it is the law after all)
2) add tariffs to imported goods which would allow Americans to compete
So...now that you've raised the costs of American goods far above those of any other country...who will buy them? Also, see #41 for one example of another problem.