And the obvious answer is that American taxes and regulations make it too expensive to hire Americans for these jobs.
Call it the law of unintended conseqences, stupidity, or whatever. Corporations are in business to make money. If you pass laws that raise the cost of hiring Americans as employees, corporations will simply move those jobs overseas. All corporations.
And the next point should be that ObamaCare will make it even more expensive to hire Americans, which means more jobs will go overseas. Everyone that voted for ObamaCare knew that; a vote for ObamaCare was a vote to send jobs overseas.
Then ask Boxer why she voted to send jobs overseas.
Barbara Boxer is a fraud Senator who stole her first election as Senator.
Additionally, labor unions have priced their members out of the global economy.
Brookhaven you wrote “And the obvious answer is that American taxes and regulations make it too expensive to hire Americans for these jobs.”
I heard a story in 1992 from a specialty contractor who worked with a computer company in the Bay Area. He was told that in the same amount of time it took to build and start-up a chip board manufacturing facility in Thailand they got an awning on their existing building ‘approved’.
With the rate of excessive regulation since then, how is any manufacturer going to keep up with NIABYE (not in anyone’s backyard EVER)
PS for Hanson: Check out the rates of engineering students in the US. Not keeping up.