Why would a country make policies that send its jobs to other countries?

Question

Surely the people of a country would never consciously and purposely do such a thing. Therefore its their leaders who must be the ones doing it, and if the leaders are supposedly representing the people, then what is the disconnect?

summermoo. I am a staunch anti communist....which is exactly why I scratch my head and wonder why we support communist china. lol.

Answer 1

The disconnect came from the corporate realization that obscene profits are to be made when exporting its labor needs to foreign countries, greatly reducing (in some countries, almost eliminating) its labor costs. These profits are then used to elect persons who owe their political careers to the corporations which funded their elections, this in turn has given the current regime of "corporations first, people, well people can go to hell". Domestic worker rights and the domestic job base are further eroded as fewer and fewer domestic jobs (jobs paying a living wage that is) are available, but corporate profits are such that even CEOs who LOSE money for their companies are allowed to award themselves multi-million dollar bonuses, even as their plants close and they lay off labor. Soon the only jobs available will be in the military or with the State or Federal Government.

We are running headlong into Corporate Socialism, and the hemorhaging of domestic jobs to foreign labor sources is the driving force for that change.

Answer 2

While it's true that companies make these decisions to improve their profits, a government has the power to discourage the practice or encourage it by their policies. The economic health of the country relies on employment being available to its citizens. So, the most logical course of a government that is concerned for its people is to discourage such a practice. I believe that government should avoid interfering in business within our country. But global business screws up the old economic models. The government is worried about its tax base which is an immediate concern. The largest businesses paying those taxes are now becoming global. If the government passes regulations that hurt those businesses then their tax base suffers. If they don’t then the citizens suffer. In the long run failing to support US business will hurt us because our trade deficient is increasing and more of our citizens are becoming poorer (even though those who are rich are becoming richer) and less capable of consuming; in the short run the huge global business pay more taxes. It comes down to this. Politicians only worry about what happens between now and their next re-election so they always think in terms of short run.

Answer 3

Are you an American? Living in America? Not an oestrich with your head in the sand?

This administration care nothing for any policy other than they make money. Period. They are for big business. Period. Who owns big businesses? Who are the CEOs of big corporations? Wealthy people. Who do the Bush/Cheney cartel serve? Wealthy people. As Bush says, they're his "base". Birds of a feather stick together. Those old adages are there for a reason - mostly because they're true!

Yes, Virginia, the "leaders" of our country are the ones making policies, if you can call them that, that send our jobs overseas. Actually, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, which was the beginning of our downfall. It ought to be repealed. There could be laws enacted that prevent corporations from relocating south or overseas, or at least, impose penalties and make them subject to the same labor & environmental laws here. Of course, Bush has gutted/overturned all the environmental policies of the Bill Clinton administration, but that's another matter.

The current leaders don't represent the common man. Just because G.W. Bush looks like the kind of guy you can sit in the backyard and have a beer with doesn't mean he's "one of us". Wealthy people hang with wealthy people, and their backyard BBQs aren't the same as ours.

People had the wool pulled over their eyes and they voted for the guy they thought was "one of them" over the guy who actually had the smarts and the heart to lead - Al Gore. They repeated the same mistake 4 years later.

I've learned that there's an awful lot of stupid people in America. That's the disconnect. Stupid people are generally uneducated people. Uneducated people are usually uninformed people. Uninformed, uneducated people can be fooled much more easily.

As for the rest, most just don't even vote anymore. I guess those people who don't vote would rather live in a dictatorship, which Bush said was easier, anyway.

Answer 4

The people would and do do this. Why wouldn't they? The goal of any business is to maximize profit. Why continue to employ American's at a higher pay rate when you could out source the job overseas to other people who will work the same profession for 1/10 of the fee, if that. These kind of things increase profit which is what PEOPLE who own and run business want to achieve. If American's want some of the jobs they are going to have be willing to work for less money I suppose.

Answer 5

To all who think it's government policy that sends jobs overseas, put yourself in the position of the company.

Your company makes wigits here in the US. You have to contend with labor costs, OSHA, and numerous other factors. You have to make a profit or you don't stay in business so you have to charge at least $$ for your product.

There's a competitor of yours that opens a factory in a country where they can get all the workers they want for 1/3 the cost of labor you have to pay. The safety regulations in this country are much more lax than in the US. The land the factory was build on was much cheaper to buy there than in the US. The bottom line is this competitor can charge 1/2 of what you do and have a higher return on investment.

This has nothing to do with governmentpolicy. What is YOUR company going to do? What do you expect YOUR government to do?

Answer 6

The leadership is loyal to the goal of one world government and not to the United States. Feudalism is the future.
There are many "disconnects" in the war on terror also. Not the least of which is why does the government refuse to secure the borders, but insist on unconstitutional wiretapping? Why sell weapons to Saudi Arabia, when Saudi Arabia exports Wahabism, supports Al-Qaida and supports the Sunni insurgency in Iraq?
The war on terror is a Machiavellian distraction to divert our attention from the war on the middle class and the establishment of a single world government.
Feudalism is the future.

Answer 7

There is no "disconnect."

This country has been bought and paid for, and functions solely for the top 1% of the population: the uber-rich.

Outsourcing jobs is saving this top 1% billions upon billions of dollars in wages, health benefits, 401Ks, retirement packages, pensions. Not to mention the billions upon billions they DON'T have to pay in tedious things like environmental safeguards, OSHA regulations, you know - stuff like that.


THERE IS NO REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE. Say.....wasn't there a revolution for that once a long time ago?

Answer 8

Industry chases cheap labor. Industry only cares about the bottom line and shareholder value and they enhance that by sending the work to areas in which workers have no rights and issues like pollution and safe working conditions are a joke.

So the job you used to have is going to India or Mexico. You are out of work and unable to support yourself. Industry and to a large extent the current government sees that as your problem, not theirs.

Answer 9

Clinton, NAFTA, China and Wal-Mart.

Therein, lies the answer.

Individual profits and power gained by intentionally slitting the throats of the American people.

I wish dems could see how incredibly stupid they look when protesting the expansion of Wal-Mart and the exodus of jobs overseas, while still ignorantly supporting the Clintons.

Answer 10

The corporate lobby controls the government. The corporate media lulls the public into complacency.