Years of getting U.S. regulation compliance:Why are we opening ourselves up to foreign imports of lesser?

Question

quality?

How many years of struggle did it take to get U.S. companies to satisfy regulations in manufacturing and the food industry?
Not to mention equality in the work place and fair wages.
Now we have opened our markets to countries that barely regulate themselves and we have imports that don't meet the smallest standards.

Like with the childrens toys, tires, seafood....etc.

Then there is the wages paid to foreign workers that would never be tolerated in the U.S.

Is it worth it?

Should we have kept the U.S. more self sufficient like we were before 1992?

Answer 1

It is interesting how often you use the phrase "should we" or "we have to."

And then, you complain about big business...aren't they also a "we", and a "we" that has been far more successful than *you* in getting things done?

Laws must protect citizens from iniquity ind injustice...but your mindset seems to be to use laws to take from those who achieve success, because it is somehow unfair that you do not share in it.

You share in it because you have been given liberty, from the same God who gave us life. Now, you must do more than just complain about those who take advantage of the blessings of liberty more than you seem to.

Answer 2

It's about generating profit. 'NOTHING' in this society is more important than profit. If any company does 'the right thing' and sells only ethical products, then that company's stock will weaken, as its profit levels drop, their share prices will fall, and they will be taken over by a stronger company whose policies are not so ethical. The former environmentally and socially concerned owner will lose everything to a capitalist automaton whose only concern is to make more profit; whatever the cost. I'm afraid it's the society that we live in. The power to stop this is in the hands of the consumers, but you try getting an extremely poor family to buy anything other than the cheapest. Then what do they do with that profit? They could use it to generate work and resolve social and environmental problems, instead it sits in an an account somewhere, as protection against takeovers. I seem to recall some great thinkers from the past, who now receive nothing but ridicule from the media, saying that this is exactly what would happen. Well it is happening, the planet is dying, and we get sport!

Answer 3

None of these things had to happen; but, globalists in the guise of the Bush administration seized power in this country. Globalism does not work and the plummet in the stock market is only a small part of the backlash against this threat to American freedoms, safety, job availability, and the sovereignty of our country.

The American people face hard choices in the months to come, including whether to take down the Bush administration and install a new administration that is capable of cleaning up this mess.

Outsourcing is only a small part of the Globalist Cabal's plan to eliminate the middle class worldwide. The endgame is to establish three world markets, the Eurasian, the Pacific Rim and the Americas.

Each market will have no borders and will, in effect, be one financial market with two classes--workers with no rights who live in a kind of communism and industrialists with all the money.

There is a globalism backlash--the market today and other signs that you can research online show that globalism doesn't work.

Stand up against globalism.
Buy locally
Boycott China
Buy American

Answer 4

Kelly it's alllllll about profits. Our government has become OF the corporations, BY the corporations and FOR the corporations. The "people" are no longer significant.
If Big Business can make an extra nickel by importing cheap garbage from China, it will certainly continue to do so; never mind that your pet died or that you were sickened by antifreeze in your toothpaste. Our government will never in a million years risk confronting the corporations that have our senators and congresspeople in their pockets, so it's up to you and I to DEMAND that the country of origin be noted on every single thing we buy (including edible products)....in order that we are able to make our own choices.

Answer 5

Blame the unions. If they were still doing what they did before 1992 you could not afford much as the wages would be so high we would all be struggling to buy food.
Pay $150.00 Shoes from US Manufacturing
$50.00 from China.
Exactly the same.Which would you buy.

Answer 6

It all comes down to cost. Cost for the businesses and cost for the consumers. Both want to spend as little as possible. If everything sold in the U.S. was made in the U.S., prices would be astronomical. I'd be fine with that, but a lot of people would have to go without owning the material possessions that they believe they are entitled to; DVD players, Ipods, computers, HDTVs... The list is endless.

Answer 7

money makes things happen and when the big boys want something to hell with what is important to you and I money talks and we can't even whisper

Answer 8

Why can't you regulate yourself? It's a simple answer for a simple question. If you don't want foreign made products, then don't buy them.