Will someone please explain to me why the hell should I vote for a political party that DEFENDS companies and corporations outsourcing jobs to foreign countries only to sell the products to me at outrageous prices....AND get a tax break to do so?
You want to discourage outsourcing? Then you can start by demanding our government lower the corporate tax rate. We have the second highest corporate tax rate in the world -which pretty much makes running your business anywhere BUT the US a much better bargain. We have a global economy now yet you rant as if it only involves Americans. American companies are not their only competition and Americans sure aren't their only consumers either! In a global economy with international consumers, international companies take their jobs where the level of education and skills of the population best matches the job being offered. Americans, because we have a high level of education and skills, demand and expect one of the highest wages in the world -even for sitting on our asses and doing nothing but answering a PHONE. But it doesn't require any special skill or education to answer a phone and MILLIONS in the world are willing to do for a hell of a lot less money than Americans are.
On the other hand, we have THOUSANDS of jobs that are INSOURCED and any given year that number has been close to equal to the number that have been outsourced. But of course liberals never mention that. And unlike the quality of outsourced jobs, the insourced ones are high paying jobs best suited to the skills and education level of American workers. Companies that insource jobs here are willing to pay the high wages American workers demand - which is typically twice as much as people in their own country are paid for the same job. And they are HAPPY to pay that much because for jobs requiring high levels of education and/or skills, Americans are three times more productive than the next closest population. So they are happy to pay twice as much per employee - because they get three times as much output as a worker in their own country. How do you think their own citizens feel about those outsourced jobs? Think those companies should be forced to keep them in their country and be forced to lose their competitive edge as a result -which means WE get to pay more for their product? These are the kinds of things that drive business decisions -while people like you seem to forget that businesses are only in business to make money so they can stay in business. And if they don't stay in business, their employees don't keep their jobs.
Americans are not and cannot be the best fit for every single kind of job in existence on the planet -but companies outsourcing jobs that require low level of skills and education to other countries is how other countries elevate themselves out of poverty -which is NOT going to happen all at once. It didn't happen all at once for our country either. The people of some poverty stricken nation with an average level of education of 3rd grade and earning less than $200 a year is NOT the best fit for a company making computer chips, is it? But for answering their phones, it might be the best fit. So they give the jobs at $2 an hour to answer their phone -a wage no American would take for that job. But it instantly elevated the standard of living for that poor person and his dependents, going from a yearly income of $200 to more than $4000! How else do you expect a poverty stricken nation to improve? They must WORK their way out but they don't have the skills and education to demand American wages yet. But they can answer a phone and get paid 2000% more than they made the year before.
For someone who claims that liberals have SOOO much more concern and compassion for the poor and insists it is conservatives who hate the poor -I've seen liberal after liberal reveal their true colors when it comes to this issue, even knowing a poverty stricken nation cannot escape that poverty without JOBS. When the people of a poverty stricken nation don't yet have the education and skills to even perform the top tiered jobs, THESE are the jobs they NEED! I really don't get this attitude from liberals. The cure for poverty is JOBS -but it is ALWAYS liberals who are first to insist **** THE POOR in the world and insist we force companies to keep all jobs in this country, even the ones that require no real education and no skill to perform but Americans still expect to get paid top dollar. And even as we accept the thousands of high paying, high quality insourced jobs of foreign companies as well.
We aren't the only people on the planet and these international businesses aren't the only ones offering that particular good and the other ones are NOT restricted from finding the best fit between their jobs and the educational and skill level of the employee they need. We have a minimum wage in this country and because we have one of the highest standards of living, we expect the wage offered to be enough to at least maintain that, if not raise it more. But not all jobs are WORTH that kind of money especially when a company has global consumers. Catering to Americans as if they are the only people on the planet and companies owe more to Americans than any other people on the planet -even if it comes at the expense of being competitive, they go under and all their employees lose their jobs -is suicidal. You won't have more jobs, you will end up with even fewer as well as fewer products that cost more. Lose-lose for everyone. You are whining because they make decisions that allows them to remain competitive globally because their consumers aren't just Americans and their competitors aren't just other American businesses either. Anything that forces them to do business where it undermines their competitive edge means it is LESS profitable for them and means destroying their competitiveness globally and increasing the likelihood they go under.
As for "outrageous" prices. Get real. Americans have THE largest selections of goods, the largest numbers of different brands offered and price ranges offering consumers a range of choices based on economy/quality/somewhere in between than anywhere else in the world and at the best prices. You really believe otherwise -go buy your stuff in other countries and let us all know how that works out for ya. Must be why Americans are lining up at the door to get the hell out of this country -all those outrageous prices and all. Force companies to keep all jobs here and pay high American wages instead of outsourcing jobs that don't require the higher education and skill level of Americans -and you will see what outrageous prices really look like. Ignorance is no excuse for your irrational rants.
