Open your eyes.
We’re already destroying our economy, by sending everything of value; our jobs, our knowledge, our factories, and 200 years of national treasure.
To China.
Well. So stop. At the current rate we’re heading for oblivion anyway. Might as well take a stand.
BUY AMERICAN.
Outsourcing = treason.
What brand cell phone do you have? What brand car do you have? What brand tires do you have? What brand computer are you using to post here on FR?
Why do you support “treasonous” companies with your dollar?
What’s treasonous is that we have demonized the profit motive here in the US. Making an honest living by being smart and running a business is now evil; only being a “union member” or a Government worker is considered “pure”. You have no right to profit here, because it’s “evil” in the eyes of the public. Corporations making “outrageous” profits, wealthy people buying nice cars and houses...
The problem is not “outsourcing”; the problem is WHY outsourcing happens. Outsourcing is the symptom, not the cause. The cause is that we - as a nation - have decided it is wrong to make a buck, it is wrong to make profit, it is wrong for the investors and owners of a company to make a profit on their risk when the “common man” only earns $30/hour, and it is wrong to do anything that may damage any living thing (tree, bird, fish) out there.
As long as that’s the general opinion in the American mind, and as long as our Government overlords continue with that populist muck-raking, then outsourcing will continue.
Making a buck is not evil; if you cannot make a buck here, then in fact it WOULD BE evil to simply lose money here! There is no stewardship. Making your profit is good, and grows economies.
We buy products from China, from mainly US-owned subsidiaries in China, because otherwise there is no profit and it all closes down. You cannot build affordable computers or tires with $30/hour labor costs. You cannot sell $90/pr jeans.
Open YOUR eyes, see your own hypocrisy, and see the real reason companies outsource. It’s not treason - it’s called survival.
You're not a Cook County Democrat by chance are you? They try to practice mercantilism as well.
My understanding of macroeconomics makes me hesitant to agree with you. But the Patriot in me wholeheartedly agrees with you....I have to go with my love of country on this one, BUY AMERICAN! I guess Obama can, from time to time, squeak out some patriot actions even though it was but a byproduct of his allegiance with the unions.