2007-11-05 06:09:11 · 15 answers · asked by . 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
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2007-11-06 08:13:41 · update #1
unions is what the brainwashed people will say
corporate greed is what the open-eyed people will say
the corps putting a crap product out,,, charging too much and paying the employees to little to care about it....
2007-11-05 06:15:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
The "flat earth", the fact that people overseas will work for pennies, consumers and end users don't care about the quality of the product, and there are few or no tax incentives for a corporations to keep their factories in the US.
2007-11-05 06:14:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
The expanding global market.
The U.S. labor force has a much higher living standard. American manufacturers can't produce widgets in the USA to sell in an international market where the labor is cheaper.
It's our success in the past that is biting us in the behind today.
2007-11-05 06:17:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Closure? LOL
THe government bails out companies "too big to loose" or "too big to fail". There are some compaines who are in the red year after year and are bailed out year after year.
But we do loose manufacturing to China. $1 slave labor is hard to beat. And as long as the CEO is paid so much, to earn maximum profits, we will NEVER get back manufacturing jobs.
The value of the dollar ensures that we cannot buy American made products and pay the workers also.
2007-11-05 06:13:06 · answer #4 · answered by vote_usa_first 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
The fact that our government doesn't give everyone monthly paychecks to compensate their low wages like they do in communist countries.
If our government did, then everyone could be paid 50 cents a day, and our manufacturers would actually gain some competitiveness. but that would be socialism, so we'll go on supporting a communist economy.
2007-11-05 06:14:30 · answer #5 · answered by Boss H 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's impossible to compete with workers that earn $60 per month
2007-11-05 06:12:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
unions... It is absolutely ridiculous that a line worker is paid 30 bucks an hour to put bolt A on part B.
2007-11-05 06:19:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
A lot of abbreviations, like UAW, AFL-CIO, OSHA, and EPA.
2007-11-05 07:53:02 · answer #8 · answered by senior citizen 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
CORPORATE GREED....
I really really tried for a minute to buy ONLY stuff that was made in the USA.
IMPOSSIBLE. Everything is made in China.
2007-11-05 06:13:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
uh, trade laws that literally reward american corporations for taking their factories overseas...
2007-11-05 06:12:58 · answer #10 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋