quote from racebannon " In fact all these economies that we are off shoring our jobs to do not practice free trade at all, "
What we are seeing here amongst us, as folks rush forward to defend this process, is the greed that flows from them profitting from such practice. This is big business using loopholes in import, export and visa laws, to increase their bottom line, at the expense of lost jobs, decreased benefits and job security for american workers.
IOW... the folks here who support such practices want to make money on their investments. I understand that, but at what cost. The very premise of FREE trade, is that the competitors are SUPPOSED to be at parity... or some semblance of it. These Nations we are out sourcing to, are NOT even capitalist nations. Their economies are subsidized and manipulated to make it so that their "workers" can work all year, for 50 dollars.
IF they were required to take care of their workers, pay a minimum wage, meet basic health environmental and safety laws, that AMERICAN businesses MUST, then we could have a competitor to competitor relationship that I could support.
We don't.
and whenever we try to insist on it, we have to go begging, hat in hand and snivelling to the WTO... who does not have our best interests at heart. I am sorry for the income/employment obstacles that this increasingly worlwide socialist government has put in your way. I know literally hundreds of folks, who have similar stories, and very very few, who don't.
This outsourcing of jobs, to destroy jobs, just like "corporate downsizing", is an evil that only a self centered, money grubbing mizer could love.
We need to support the american worker and entrepreneur spirit by lowering our regulation and taxes on them, to pre world war one levels. SCREW the bloated pig of bureaucracy that eats up over 98 percent of each tax dollar. And insist that nations with whom we trade, are in the intense process of making our competition with them, and our open markets for them, are pursued in the true spirit of FREE and FAIR trade and competition.
It's easy to beat american workers, when your workforce is 100 of millions of men women and children, living in squalid government labor camps. They sell human organs for less than we do too, don't they? They kill christians as a matter of government religious policy, and force aborition on women under 'population control' laws.
The folks who support trade with such evil nations, would do well to go over and take a look at that link you posted. it puts a human freeper face, on the tragedy of "free trade" when it isn't so free, or fair.
the folks who support this abuse, are not free traders, in reality, they want cheap labor subsidized by foreign communist or socialist nations, so they can make more profit, off the slaves who live there. There was a crowd in america back a hundred and forty years ago, who thought the same way, but instead of wanting to keep slaves over seas, they actually wanted to keep them here, for their own benefit.
I am appalled at the level of support I have seen for this group of policies as practiced by corporations... and appalled at how many folks think this is a good thing.