isn't it time?

Question

its time for manufacturers to bring our jobs back to us and ensure products are safe - what do you think?
and yes i know these countries are poor but so are we! as more and more jobs go overseas more and more americans are losing their livlihood, their homes, their lives.

wow, great response! thank you.
i do have to say to those of you who say we aren't poor - we have many many poor families, we have families living on the streets, we have them in shelters.
as for unemployment rates - the figures are skewed - a lot of the 'jobs' are part-time at best, on call and casual labor are also factored into those figures.
i hate to think its too late!

Answer 1

i agree totally. the big corps. are using there status as america-based companies to use cheap foreign labor and getting it imported because it cost them next to nothing. i have worked in a factory and seen it get closed down to go overseas. we as americans should only buy products that are made and assembled in the u.s.a. i know that those other countries are poor but if we dont watch ourselves we will become just like them.

Answer 2

No, that time was over 40 years ago. The American economy has been post-industrial for - arguably - two, maybe even three decades now. Manufacturing is becoming a minor part of our economy, just as agriculture did when we industrialized. 200 years ago, the vast majority of Americans worked in the agricultural sector, 60 years ago, only about 5% did, with most working in manufacturing. Today, manufacturing is sliding towards oblivion, and the still difficult to quantify 'service' sector is what's growing. There probably always will be /some/ manufacturing jobs, but only in the highest proffit-margin or least labor-intensive businesses, but manufacturing jobs haven't driven growth for a long time.

Answer 3

It isn't gonna happen. Period.

Talking about it isn't going to change ANYTHING! And if you hear some politician talking like that they're either lying to you or they are seriously lost in space because they'll never have any influence over the movement of jobs.

You want a solution to jobs going overseas? One word. EDUCATION. Educate the children so that they grow up to become capable citizens and workers. We aren't doing that now and it is this fact that is leading us into a hole we will have great difficulty climbing back out of.

A highly-educated citizenry is the only solution to the problem of manufacturing jobs going overseas. Let 'em have our manufacturing jobs. Then they'll have enough money to buy our high-value products like Boeing jets, Intel processors, Caterpillar tractors, etc.

This is the way the world is going - we either get with the program or watch the world pass us by.

Answer 4

*sigh*

Let's assume there are 2 competing companies, A and B. Both are the same size and make the same amount of money. The difference is A is in the US, and B is in India.

Company A's operating costs are higher, because minimum wage is higher. Company B overall makes a better profit as a result. It uses this profit to boost its production and surpasses A. Company A can either leave the US, or get bought out by company B (in which case it would probably be moved).

We have so many people in the US advocating higher minimum wage, and deportation of illegals. At the same time, they advocate companies to stay in the US. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.

Answer 5

All true . . .

It all has to do with financial equilibrium.

Just as water seeks its own level, so does money.

When the gradient is toward China where the wages are lower and the standard of living is less expensive and government regulations don't impede production, that's where businesses set up shop. And, of course, jobs are created there.

Since the Jimmy Cattah years, our nanny government has been arranging for the destruction of America's maufacturing base.

OSHA and a raft of other alphabet soup government agencies have been overseeing America's financial demise.

Labor unions have been shooting themselves in the foot by demanding wages and benefits that further increase the cost of doing business in America.

The cost of shipping overseas isn't cheap, but as long as it costs less than the heavy burden American companies face stateside from unions and government, China is going to be able to sell for less than domestic producers.

We're now seeing where China has been cutting corners to keep their bottom line low. Without the regulatory burden, they've been using leaded paint and putting dangerous fillers in food.

How do we get jobs back in America?

And I'm serious about this.

Vote in a president in 2008 who will restore this country to Constitutional principles. That would be Ron Paul.

Government is in the business of making laws and protecting the country from the criminal element within, and the miltary element without. That's all.

When the government stops being our nanny, we can start to climb out of the hole they're about to bury us in.
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Answer 6

I agree, but to make it practicle you also must do a few other things.

1. Reel in the lawyers. Hundreds of thousands of US manufacturing jobs have been driven off shore by lawyers filing outrageous and fecetious lawsuits. It is a big lottery ticket.

Tort Reform NOW!

2. Reel in some of the unions. If you are in a rigth to work state this is not as important, but Unions are also drving jobs away be forcing wages and costs higher than they need to be.

Answer 7

Having tea this weekend with friends this is the direction the conversation went. Where is that good ol American innovation? What is it we actually manufacture these days? I think the problems with China has now brought a new understanding to people. That is my hope.

Answer 8

Our people aren't poor but I do agree that the jobs need to come back. NAFTA should not have been signed and American companies need to stop buying crap from overseas and pass it off as their product.

Answer 9

The unemployment rate is at 4.5%.
What Americans are losing their livelihoods?
Most of that 4.5% is made up of people who can not work or have chosen not to participate in society.
Soooo, if jobs came back to America, who would do them?

Answer 10

First the US government should stop supporting the injustice institution in the Hague, and then there will be a point to argue about.