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Immigration / Out-Sourcing Double-Standard?

Is there a double-standard?

  • Yes

    Votes: 2 66.7%
  • No

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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Both involve non-citizens taking jobs that could be going to Americans for less than Americans would be willing or legally able to accept.

Despite this, each political party seems to think the economic benefits of just one outweigh the costs to American jobs.

Why aren't people as outraged about out-sourcing as they are about illegal immigration? And vice versa? Is there a double-standard? Or is there a key distinguishing feature between the two practices?
 
Both involve non-citizens taking jobs that could be going to Americans for less than Americans would be willing or legally able to accept.

Despite this, each political party seems to think the economic benefits of just one outweigh the costs to American jobs.

Why aren't people as outraged about out-sourcing as they are about illegal immigration? And vice versa? Is there a double-standard? Or is there a key distinguishing feature between the two practices?

I am outraged about both illegal immigration and outsourcing. The idea that someone can be patriotic/loyal and support outsourcing or illegal illegal immigration is laughable.
 
Most Republican voters seem to be outraged about both. Democrats are more mixed, but the ones who care about such things tend to care about both issues. But honestly, the major divide on these issues isn't partisanship...it's education. Highly educated voters tend to support both immigration and outsourcing, while less educated voters tend to oppose both.
 
Most Republican voters seem to be outraged about both. Democrats are more mixed, but the ones who care about such things tend to care about both issues. But honestly, the major divide on these issues isn't partisanship...it's education. Highly educated voters tend to support both immigration and outsourcing, while less educated voters tend to oppose both.

Education has nothing to do with it.Those who support illegal immigration and outsourcing are globalist pieces of ****,this as little to do with education. Many of those globalist pieces of **** either profit from illegal immigration and outsourcing or tend to believe that their jobs are safe.
 
Of course.

Illegal immigration is, well, illegal. It has been allowed by both parties for many years because some parts of the US economy rely on that type of labor.

Outsourcing is a way of increasing profits. Dramatically. It is not even slightly illegal. Businesses are purposed to make as much money as possible, not to make societal judgements.

It's easy to be a master critic. However, if you were charged with profit-making, you'd soon change your POV.
 
Most Republican voters seem to be outraged about both. Democrats are more mixed, but the ones who care about such things tend to care about both issues. But honestly, the major divide on these issues isn't partisanship...it's education. Highly educated voters tend to support both immigration and outsourcing, while less educated voters tend to oppose both.
The Corporate Global Expansionists (CGEs) who hold dominant power on the right and tend to be Republicans are quite in favor of both illegal immigration and out-sourcing because both have the related fiscal effect of utilizing wage-slaves in place of Americans to thereby lower the corporate cost and increase the corporate profit.

The Multi-Cultural Internationalists (MCIs) who hold dominant power on the left and tend to be Democrats are quite in favor of both illegal immigration and out-sourcing because both have the related social effect of creating the one-world no-boundaries nation-less government that threatens to import third-world poverty to America.

Neither the CGEs or the MCIs care a lick about the great majority of their fellow Amerian citizens who suffer at their hands, as their respective fiscal and social ideology compels them to their Benedict Arnoldian behavior without ethical/moral feeling as they fiddle for the Rome they are burning.

The quantity of their education is not a factor here, but the quality of it is, and many with high IQs and much knowledge have historically been detrimental to humanity, as all along it was their EQ that was in great need of an intelligence boost, suffering as it was from a lack of humane qualities such as loyalty and a sense of both liberty and justice for all their fellow American citizens .. and such damaging detriment is epitomized by the sociopathic CGEs and the cultist true-believing MCIs.

Those who have not been adversely infected by the seduction of CGEs and MCIs are ethically/morally aware of the obvious damage done to their fellow American citizens from both illegal immigration and out-sourcing. This great majority tends to be centrist in political perspective, loyal to their fellow Americans .. and, sadly, politically inactive/apathetic, as unlike the left with the Dems and the right with the Repubs, there is no political party to represent their perspective.

When a centrist political party emerges, and it will, hopefully before things get too depressionarily worse, it will begin to put an end to the so-called "global economy", the "global economy" which is merely a euphemism for planetary wage-slave workers in a country-less world.
 
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Illegal Immigration is taking away jobs that are available here.

Outsourcing is often a survival response, not a "I want more money" response. Simply put, American products cost more with rarely a decernable difference in quality. Americans buy more on price or quality difference than place of manufacture. Between OSHA, EPA, Taxes, Labor Costs, and purchasing choices of the American Public, outsourcing is survival for Companies, if they remained here, they just couldn't remain in business in a competitive market when higher quality or cheaper choice are available. If Americans don't want jobs outsourced, then perhaps they should actully purchase American made products. I remember when there were lots of American made choices available, but they went away because American people weren't purchasing them. Yes, they make more money as the result of outsourcing because when cost become cheaper to them, they didn't reduce price, but most outsourcing originated because the government, unions and lack of purchases by Americans forced them to outsource.
 
Outsourcing is often a survival response, not a "I want more money" response. Simply put, American products cost more with rarely a decernable difference in quality. Americans buy more on price or quality difference than place of manufacture. Between OSHA, EPA, Taxes, Labor Costs, and purchasing choices of the American Public, outsourcing is survival for Companies, if they remained here, they just couldn't remain in business in a competitive market when higher quality or cheaper choice are available.

I completely agree with this. It's not realistic to expect companies not to outsource jobs if they can get the same product at a cheaper price elsewhere. If we could somehow prevent outsourcing, it wouldn't bring jobs back...it would just reduce the size of the economy and the jobs wouldn't exist at all.

Which is why I don't understand this...

Illegal Immigration is taking away jobs that are available here.

No, the same is true for illegal immigration. Generally speaking, many of those jobs simply wouldn't exist at all if not for illegal immigrants. It's not like they're taking something away from Americans. It's the same issue as with outsourcing: If businesses can get the same product at a cheaper price from some other worker, they're probably going to do it, and it's unrealistic to expect otherwise.

But then, I don't see either outsourcing or immigration as a problem. They both make the economy run much more efficiently, they reduce prices for American consumers, and they greatly improve the overall quality of living, both in the US and abroad.
 
Education has nothing to do with it.Those who support illegal immigration and outsourcing are globalist pieces of ****,this as little to do with education. Many of those globalist pieces of **** either profit from illegal immigration and outsourcing or tend to believe that their jobs are safe.

People who tend to not have a firm grasp of basic economics don't understand that neither of these things are really all that bad.
So he's more or less right.
 
We are part of a global economy. Our borders are gone.
 
I completely agree with this. It's not realistic to expect companies not to outsource jobs if they can get the same product at a cheaper price elsewhere.
And, of course, our corporations, which by nature are sociopathic and indeed test out as sociopathic entities, should be allowed to set all the parameters no matter how they affect their creators: American citizens . :roll:

It is realistic to expect that companies that are not allowed to buy off-shore from wage-slaves will buy domestically from Americans making an American living wage.

You simply have to treat corporations as the neanderthal dog-eaters that they are, utilizing their brute strength our corporations have for our benefit, for humanity's benefit, for the benefit of us: American citizens.

But you never ever let the sociopathic anaimal call the shots, not unless you want a ton of suffering turned on its creator.

Corporations, by nature, have no ethics or morals -- they aren't human.

We have to control their behavior to simulate ethics and morals, our ethics and morals, and, if we don't .. well, it's obvious the damage that has occurred ever since.


If we could somehow prevent outsourcing, it wouldn't bring jobs back...it would just reduce the size of the economy and the jobs wouldn't exist at all.
Absolutely false.

If outsourcing was stopped, the sociopaths at the top would either leave and less sociopathic Americans would take over running the company, complete with less greed and resultant affordable prices, just as was the case in previous decades before all the sociopathic out-sourcing, or the sociopaths at the top would close the corporate doors, and the corporation would be sold to those with less greed, again with the same result.

A necessary product in demand would continue to be made, here in America, employing American workers at American non-wage-slave wages, and sold at a price that was affordable to Americans in the American economy.

It's all about economies of scale, and if the scale is tariffically (among other methods) kept realistic within the boundaries of the U.S., everyone will get along just fine economically within our boundaries.


Generally speaking, many of those jobs simply wouldn't exist at all if not for illegal immigrants.
Again, false, especially with regard to the word "many".

The truth is that most of the illegal immigrant workers are carpenters, other construction, food industry, warehousing, manufacturing, crop workers, etc. -- all jobs previously held by American citizens and legal immigrants.

Even domestics were legal employees prior to the illegals' invasion.

Some jobs that didn't exist before illegals because the entrepreneurial effort determined it wasn't feasible to rake in the obscene level of profit without hiring wage-slaves are corporate efforts that should thus never have been started.

Either take less sociopathically obscene profits and take pride in providing a needed product or complain to the government to reduce regulations.

But don't bring in wage-slaves far, far below minimum wage to do the kind of pay-scale work Americans should be making at American scale wages.

Obviously these are businesses that should simply not exist.


It's not like they're taking something away from Americans.
BS -- pure MCI liberal BS!

The scenario of the carpenter replaced by three illegals and now works part-time barely surving at Home Depot is infamous. The great majority of the situations are similar.

If the illegals were gone and out-sourcing was ended, unemployment would end.

This is the majority situation, whether the wage-slave is brought in through illegals or is hosted in the wage-slaves' country via out-sourcing proper.


It's the same issue as with outsourcing: If businesses can get the same product at a cheaper price from some other worker, they're probably going to do it, and it's unrealistic to expect otherwise.
Repeating your mantra in genuflecting to the sociopathic corporation in no way makes it an ethical and moral activity.

We create our corporations to serve us, not vice versa, and under our ethical and moral guidance they do.

Without that ethical and moral guidance, corporations are mere animalistic neantherthals, focused only on the bottom line of profiting the most on everything they can get their hands on, lacking in "cerebral cortex" and lacking "inhibitions" that allow civilized interactions.

We Americans, through the governing process, must be the new higher brain and necessary inhibitions for our corporations and we must see to it that our corporations so behave ethically and morally with respect to our fellow citizens for whom they are supposed to be of service.

Your worshiping of the neanderthal corporate animal, kow-towing to it as if it was your God, hoping to eat the crumbs from its leftovers .. is disgusting.


But then, I don't see either outsourcing or immigration as a problem.
Are you a non-American? Are you here in America illegally? Are you a corporate manager raking in obscene profits? Are you psychologically dependent on the corporate crumbs?

Non-Americans, corporate managers enslaved to the sociopathic raw corporate mindset, and those feeding at the higher corporate trough .. yeah, they don't see outsourcing or illegal or unjustified immigration as a problem.

Neither do politicos pandering for liberal votes, such as those who purposely leave off the word "illegal" from in front of "immigration".

It's pretty obvious.


They both make the economy run much more efficiently,
False BS!

Both out-sourcing and illegal immigration contribute to a true un- and under- employment rate of around 15%!

And the out-sourcing of mainly sub-primers' jobs in the early and middle of the first decade of this century caused the wave of mortgage defaults that unscrupulous securities creators knowingly fashioned into "sub-prime securities", purposely bilking unsuspecting buyers .. until the worthlessness of those securities was revealed in August 2008, subsequently causing the corporate credit crunch in September 2008, etc. .. and The Great Recession was on.

Did that "make the economy run much more efficiently"?

Was that "good" for Americans?

Your non-factual BS is obvious!


and they greatly improve the overall quality of living, both in the US.
Whatever you're smoking, Kandahar, the fantasy it creates for you is simply not reality.

45 million Americans are now on food stamps, according to an April 2012 report published in a thread I read here at DP.

Over 40% of Americans are still greatly suffering in the after-effects of The Great Recession, according to an accurate assessment of the BLS un- and under- employment reports that the fed produces each month.

Far fewer Americans were on food stamps prior to all the illegals and out-sourcing.

Far fewer Americnas were un- and under- employed prior to all the illegals and out-sourcing.

Yet you call 45 million Americans barely getting by on food stamps and over 40% of Americans greatly suffering to be "a great improvement in the overall quality of living" for Americans. :roll:

Pure drugged fantasy.


and abroad.
Spoken like a true MCI (Multi-Cultural Internationalist)!

You must be a liberal, for sure.

Only a liberal MCI would think so little about their fellow Americans that they would advocate stealing their jobs from them so that, rather than courageously and responsibly deal with their over-population problems, third-world countries can instead have some wage-slaves to over-tax.

Charity, Kandahar, is a voluntary activity. How many Americans whose jobs were out-sourced or stolen by illegals were given the voluntary option about it? Hmmm?

None!!!

It is not our job to save the world from it's own self-destructive social and geopolitical behaviors, especially at the cost of importing those countries' third-world abject poverty to America!

It is our job to help them, via advice and support, to emulate the kind of successful population-demographic management and higher standard of living we've worked in this country to achieve, not to codependently rescuing others in other stupid countries from their own self-destructive behavior at the impoverishing expense of our own people.

It is estimated that by 2050, at the current population change rates predicted through that year, that the world's population will most likely increase between 2010 and 2050 by the combined 2010 populations of both India and China!

How impoverished do you think America's workers will have to be by then to support that unsupportable excess through your pet illegals and off-shoring?!

Better is to employ some "tough love" and simply say "NO!" to out-sourcing and illegals.

Only when those third-world wage-slave countries see that we won't keep codependently bailing them out at our miserable sacrifice will they ever have a chance to hit bottom and begin making the changes in population-demographic management they need to make.

It's not our job to rescue "and abroad" if it means adding millions of our people, which includes our children!, to the food-stamp lines.

Enough is enough!
 
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