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Why do you blame Cooperation's for doing what they have to do to compete? Long Ago America Committed to the idea of Free Trade. With that comes intense competition. In most cases when a Cooperation out sources jobs, a large factor of why is that they simply can not Compete on a global Scale. In part because of Labor costs, and Regulations. It makes no economic Sense to spend 5 Times as much to build something here, then you can get it from somewhere else.
I Believe I have seen the effects of this first hand.
See Most people think of my state, Michigan as having used to be at least, all about the Auto Industry and Heavily Unionized. Well the truth always was the the Assembly Plants in and around Detroit were always union, but the rest of Michigan's Economy was Heavily Into Making small component Parts the Auto Makes used, With Mostly NON Union Workers.
As the Car Companies struggled to pay for the Unions Nice Big Contracts, the first things to go were all the Non Union, Auto Related Manufacturing plants all across the rest of Michigan. As the Car Companies elected to get more and more of the Components made over seas.
Now the Car Companies did not do this out of Greed, They did it out of Necessity, and even it was not enough, they still needed Billions in Bail outs. Now our Car Companies assemble Cars from parts made mostly in other countries. The Unions Workers doing it still make good money, and have great benefits, but at the cost of Millions of workers in the support industries seeing their jobs go away.
Yay for the Power of Unions. They are like the Heard of Elephants that Comes into a Field of Grass and Eats and Eats and Eats until the is nothing but a field of Dirt left, and not even the seed survived.
Of course.
The corporations get formed in America, on the backs of hard-working Americans, bribe politicians to keep the trade imbalances going, and then take their profits and move to China.
Corporations to US citizens: "Thanks for all the profits and hard work! Now go fuck yourselves. Oh, and keep buying our products!"
But there's nothing wrong about that. Obviously it's all Obama and the Unions fault, for making sure that:
a) the minimum wage was not lowered to 30 cents an hour,
b) factories are not allowed to freely poison the water supply so children can get cancer
and
c) child labor laws stay in place, so our 6-year-olds can't be as productive as southeast Asia's 6-year-olds.
Obviously it can't possibly the corporations' fault. No...