It only looks that way because the humans making the decisions have not acquired the same enlightened wisdom that you have concerning how to proceed. They have some other enightened wisdom that they're following, and doggone it, it's not the same as yours. To you it looks like they have no loyalty to their fellow humans, and that they are not patriotic. To them it looks like if they don't move the plant to Mexico, the whole damned company will go out of business because the American consumer does not care one whit how many American flags you print on the box, they care about the $10 price difference. At least this way we can save the accounting department and the sales force.
The day that the shoppers in Wal-Mart decide to pay $35 for the American-made Wammerjammer instead of $19.95 for the one from Taiwan, those meatheads in the corporations will be the first ones moving the plants back. You simply cannot go to market with an uncompetitively-priced product in this country. All those free citizens out there spending their own money will not buy the damned thing. Been there, done that, watched a 100-year-old American 'household name' go splat... right into Chapter 7. Quit blaming some artificial Bad Guys in Suits for the actions of free people spending their own money.
I have a friend who works for CooperTools in South Carolina. This is exactly what they are going through. Out of consideration for their employees, they are trying to send production overseas as slowly as possible. The engineers and machinists will be gone, but the accountants and salespeople will remain.
The problem that worries me the most is that these companies deal with metallurgy - forging, machining, heat treating, plating, etc. - many of which are pretty much "black arts". There is a lot of expertise which goes into the making of something as simple as a "Crescent" wrench - my friend has told me stories - and all that is going to be lost to America.
It's happening in every industry. I don't know what the answer is, but I fear for the future of America.
We're coming up on the anniversary of what I consider to be the peak of America's technological achievement - the landing of Americans on the moon. How low we've fallen in the intervening 34 years.
In another 34 years, american "industry" will consist of ragged people squatting in vacant parking lots selling trinkets that they made back in their huts. On their way home after dark, some of them old enough to remember might look up at the moon and think, "How did this happen to us?"