Why are Liberals so upset the with the big business leaving this country and moving over seas?

Question

For years Liberals have complained about corporate tax breaks, passed environmental laws and supported Labor Unions which have caused American Companies to be unable to compete with foreign competitors. Now that these companies are shutting down their US operations and moving over seas, why aren't they rejoicing. I mean if Big Business was terrible isn't this a good thing? Doesn't this mean that the liberals accomplished what they set out to do?

And please no garbage about .25 an hour and sweat shops. At least the quarter was silver and it had some purchacing power. My first Job paid $1.00 an hour. People who worked out in the field made a $1.60. This was on a tobacco farm where we worked outside with no AC. I never complained that the people who worked in the field made more, I asked the boss when could I start working in the field. The reason I make over 20 times that today is I didn't wait for the government to make my life better.

Sorry about the "the" on either side of the word with. Fire that proof reader.

Thetunak: They are also extremely upset with the idea of "Liberty and Justice for All" They think it should be "Liberty and Justice for All" who think like liberals, And probably wanting the Declaration of Ind, to read "Endowed by the creator when they fully emerge from the womb with certain rights among them "Life..."

BettysDad: You are another shining example of Liberal Tolerance for the veiws of others and lacking an answer you have resorted to name calling and belittling someone who has improved their life. Keep up the good work.

Answer 1

Liberals are liberals they will take any position which goes against the administration when Republicans occupy the seats of power. Hypocrisy means little to them because they deny their previous statements even to themselves as though they never happened. On the outsourcing issue the part they always ignore is how many jobs are being insourced by foreign companies. On the taxes, well what can you say, they have always been for redistribution of wealth because they believe they can spend the money better than you can, and because there are poor people out there you have no right to be successful in life. Unions are easy, they are socialist in nature, they support and vote Democrat. Environmental laws, I am not going to say anything about this, only because for years companies did a terrible job of cleaning up their own messes, but like all things there is a point where you go to far. I think overall you sum it up correctly in your second paragraph. The only true path to success is determination, self reliance and hard work. Liberals prefer a model where people are dependent on government for their very existence. They do not believe in empowerment unless you can somehow be viewed as a minority. Then they can take credit for your success because they see themselves as your champion. In short you would be nothing without their help and thus owe them. Liberal policies are based in guilt, if you have more in life it can't be because you worked harder, it has to be because you helped oppress someone else and need to be made to pay for that indiscretion.

mamasquirrel: Actually you have keyed into an important reason of why business works when the free market is allowed to make it's own corrections without interference from unecessary regulation. Many Americans are unhappy with the call center issue for just the reasons you mention. In response many of these companies are starting to bring their call centers back to the United States. There is no advantage to business cost wise if they so alienate their customers that they lose them. The same can be said of manufacturing jobs lost. If the quality drops to a point where we will not buy the products anymore changes will be made. We as Americans are whiney as a lot. We want low prices, but we don't want to accept the consequences required to provide those prices. In short we cannot have our cake and eat it too. Your contention about Americans not having earning power denies reality though. Most Americans are employed and most retailers are not suffering in the bank book. Yes the nature of our businesses in general have changed, but we are not a poor country and there are no real signs that we are heading that way.

bettysdad: How amusing. Yep well I take liberals like yourself seriously when they do not provide their opinions on matters but rather just seek to denigrate others who do. Get over yourself.

Answer 2

Because this takes medium-wage jobs away from the American people, and more and more previously middle-income Americans end up working service jobs that pay just over minimum wage because that's all they can afford.

Theorhetically, it sounds great that a company can make greater profits by sending jobs to lower-wage countries where you can buy an all-you-can-eat meal for a quarter. But when that leaves the bulk of American people without earning power, then they are unable to buy the products and either soon end up in bankruptcy, or the company soon finds its sales beginning to plummet because, even with the lower cost of labor (even IT labor), the bulk of their customers can no longer afford their products because a bulk of the companies are following the same strategy.

Add to this the bad customer strategy of sending customer service and phone sales jobs overseas. I hate to sound prejudicial, but each time I have called customer service and was sent to someone overseas, we couldn't understand each other! The last time, without even trying to figure out what I was asking, I was immedietly transferred back to the United States. How is that saving a company money? They are paying for a useless service...which in turn, brings about the downfall of the company.

Okay, so perhaps I'm not a whiney liberal...just smarter than certain CEO's. But, that's why the company that I'm involved with has already dropped its Asian Customer Service and IT contracts and started re-hiring from its own customer base again. No, not because I told them to....but because they wised up and realized the same thing I did.

Answer 3

Being the conservative I was brought up knowing that when working with wood it is best to measure twice and cut once. I do not agree with this neo-conservative strategy that is the exact opposite. Being the liberal, I take care of my own. I want my neighbors to be doing good. Without them, I have no community.
With them I have tax payers equally expanding or improving my community.

There is no way you can convince me that there are no conservatives that have not relied on liberal policy, at some point in time, to further their cause, and vice versa. That 's politics. Business on the other hand, is business.
To me our stock market represents sales and dollar amounts of those contracts. Our GDP represents how we are filling those orders. If the GDP is in decline we end up with more people using the social services that are there for even a conservatives insurance blanket, should it become neccessary.

Answer 4

Liberals are upset with more than just this. In God We Trust, pledge of allegiance to the flag ("under god"), big business able to offer lower costs to the consumer just to name a very few. I mean, they complain about unemployment yet they want to raise the minimum wage?