What these SOCIALISTS fail to tell you is............their ideas raise the cost to the consumer exponentially. What they also fail to tell you is; many a corporation did not flee America because of labor costs, they left because of regulation, taxation, and government interference. The only companies/corporations that left the US that I know for labor cost problems were union.
That sounds bad, doesn't it, but let me explain. I retired as a blue collar worker that was union, and I know how ridiculous it is! The retirement is funded, but the work deals were not!
When I worked and the economy went South, I made MORE being off then when I worked, lol. How could this be? Simple, I got 95% of my pay, didn't have to gas my vehicle, buy lunch, pay for coffee, or anything else. That is surely 5% of your pay. And, if I missed a day while at work, I lost money. How do you miss a day when you do not work?
I was never laid off with no recall date, I was on 2 weeks off 1, or on 2 off 2. But I know people who were laid of with no return date, and it got sooooooooo bad, that if the company knew that business was going to pick up before their benefits ran out, they would make them come into the cafeteria and sit for 8hrs and pay them the extra 5%. Why? Because they hoped they would get so bored, they would take a day off, or use their vacation to go do something, because you see, you kept accruing vacation, even if laid off.
Let me tell you what it was like! We had people who would come back to work after being off for 6 months and instantly take their vacation. After they came back from vacation, they would then use their personal business days, and then come back, and go on medical leave making 85% of their pay. This was standard procedure for about 7 to 10% of the laid off workers.
And so, when someone starts spouting off all about how unfair America is insisting that somehow corporations are evil, I say this...........when BILL CLINTON signed NAFTA into law, he for all intensive purposes killed any union that produced anything labor intensive. They are still here, but their wages and compensation have either stayed stagnant, and in many cases dropped.
Government regulation, regardless if you see it as good or bad, has pushed many others out. So has taxation. Who wouldn't go where there is less of both, especially when you have to compete with similar products built there putting you at a tremendous disadvantage if you do not?
So let us examine the facts, then judge! Who demanded ridiculous benefit packages for union workers to protect them from loss of wages even in a down turn? Unions. And who run unions? LIBERALS.
Who signed NAFTA? Bill Clinton. What was Bill Clinton? A liberal.
Who wants TPP? (also know as NAFTA junior) Obama. What is Obama? A liberal/socialist.
Who wants to screw the corporations because they are evil? Obama/Hilly/liberals/socialists. And who do all these people blame? Conservatives/republicans.
Who wants to keep the borders open to let illegals in pushing down wages? Obama/liberals/socialists/rinos.
Who will never, ever, never ever, say lets lower taxes on corporations to lure them back or keep them? Liberals/socialists/Obama/Hilly.
Yep, but I bet it makes no difference to the liberal voting bloc, cause you are promised free stuff, lol.