We cant control wages abroad and should focus our efforts on keeping standards high here at home by refusing citizenship to those who drag them down.
We already refuse citizenship to criminal elements.
Outside of that, who are these legal immigrants that are dragging down standards here at home?
Also,
how are they dragging standards down?
Please answer those questions for me.
The reason for exporting american jobs is directly related to the ever increasing US taxes and regulations that make it impossible for American Industry to be competitive in a global economy. Sink or swim. They have been given no other option.
An American worker being paid $12.00/hour vs. a worker in a third world country being paid $.05/hour.
That's the reason our jobs have been off-shored.
Taxation issues are very minor compared to the wage-slave issue.
If the two wages were equal, companies would stay here, as the tax issue is offset by overseas costs, tariffs, pay-offs to corrupt governments, and language barrier challenges.
The reason we have so much off-shoring is because
one company in a given industry started it, considerably lowered the resulting consumer price, and then the remaining competitors in that industry had to follow suit or lose the price war.
Off-shoring has ramped up in recent years because international corporations have improved their ability to source wage-slaves.
Corporations are not the problem. Government is the problem
You say that repeatedly, thus it's no wonder I hear the typical fiscal conservative dualism .. shared also by most libertarians: corporations are angels .. the government is the devil.
Liberals often see it vice versa.
I prefer to look closely at the facts apart from pre-conceived ideology, determine the problem, and create solutions.
Sometimes I find that corporations are wrong and need to change and sometimes I find that government is wrong and needs to change and sometimes both.
In this particular situation, international corporate consortiums need to be reigned in, management and unions need to do a better job at coming to agreements, and government politicians must see to it that that happens instead of off-shoring and in-sourcing wage-slaves.
and the more it grows the bigger the problem gets.
The size of government is not the issue with government.
The substance of government is.
The corporations could be our saviors if government would get out of their way and let them do what they do best. Create wealth and jobs.
Corporations will never be our saviors.
There is no constitutional mandate for corporations to promote the general welfare and provide for the common defense.
The goal of corporations is to turn the biggest profit they can, and corporations see workers as a cost that drains profits.
Corporations, being the animal that they are, will always seek out the cheapest production costs available.
That's the foundational reason they are presently robbing out-sourced Peter to pay peanuts to Pablo.
Purely free enterprise without effective government controls is the ultimate in cold economic war, and in this war the owners create wealth for themselves and jobs at the cheapest global rate they can find.
It's not a good thing for the great majority of Americans.
The left will tell you to ignore and deny the history of what made America the wealtiest most powerful nation on earth while promoting class warfare by telling you the rich are evil and greedy. Tactics taken directly from the writings of Karl Marx.
And, they'd be wrong.
But the right will tell you to ignore and deny the history of what made the American standard of living for all the most cherished standard of living on earth while promoting class warfare by telling you that workers are lazy and freeloaders. Tactics taken directly from the writings of Ronald Reagan and other corporate panderers.
And they're wrong, too.
Capitalism is your friend...Government is your enemy.
Neither is true .. and neither is the opposite true as well.
It's times like this I feel
so glad I don't suffer from pre-conceived ideology -- I think so much clearer as a result.
Im inclined to agree with this one for the most part.
Yes, but you are inclined to so agree because you've filtered it through your ideology, thus imagining I just put down "the big bad government" when I didn't.
The problem is that the corporate socialism movement started under Reagan has been perpetuated by Washington politicians left and right bought and paid for by corporate interests .. to this day.
It's not about our government; it's about the wingnuts left and right we've been forced to elect to run our government.
All of our problems can be traced to a combination of corporations and unions behaving badly and politicians not intervening the moment the first wave of jobs in an industry were about to be out-sourced.