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Originally Posted by Rogue  The current brand of globalization works only for the ruling elites and the super rich. Where are the protections for the middle class and lower class Americans? Why don't those American companies that move outside the US have to pay a tarrif on their products that they import back into the US? Maybe they'd think twice before they moved outside the US? 3.5 million jobs lost to outsourcing? Did the most corrupt fed gov in US history analyse the long term effects to this country of allowing major outsourcing before they bent over for the super rich, or were they just bought off handsomely by the legions of lobbyists so that whichever CEO stood to gain made his maximum compensation?
So as soon as low skilled Americans are reduced to being as desperate as illegal Mexican scabs they'll start jumping on those scraps tossed down to them by the super rich and in the end be just as fine as those same desperate illegal Mexican scabs? Gotcha. |
No protectionism is utter rubbish. Tariffs work both ways, if we establish high tariffs for imported goods what prevents other nations from doing the same against our goods? Industrialized nations would be most seriously hurt by a tariffs policy. Free trade is the proper direction to go.
Unfortunately that is the kind of world which we live in. You either lead the pack and be more creative, have better ingenuity, produce higher quality, and just simply be more competitive or you'd have to bite the dust.
What developing nations rely on - cheap labor - we rely on automation.
They rely on hard labor, we rely on fast efficient machines.
But in our nation we have a unique situation where our own labor unions are working against that and insist that an employee can only produce a certain quota within only the allowed time that the union has established. That's utter rubbish - if the employee can why couldn't s/he?