agree or disagree ?

Question

The greed of big businesses is most of the reason for todays loss of employment & job pay?
since companies are murging so much they cut back, some taking the work to other countries for cheaper labor, forcing our people to train others to do our jobs or firing us. We are being offered on the chopping block of greedy corportations who are stuffing more money in THEIR pockets.

My husband has worked at 2 places over the years now that has sent hundreds of jobs elsewhere, we need our jobs back.

I think one day, 1 big company may own ALL the others & the government will own it. ( well it is the reason for a bloody war over 100 years ago )

Agree or Disagree?

Answer 1

agree and saw it happen to me in 1990 when the japs or Taiwan started running cheap computer boards.... I lost my job making 800 a week.

now its China, India, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan, japan, Korea, Singapore,
Malaysia, Philippines, Germany, ...heck name a country.

Answer 2

I semi-agree. I think that about 95% of the blame for what your talking about falls with both the company heads, and the workers. I know unions were designed to help keep big business from running wild, but they have gone too far through the years, and they have drove big business to leave. If there were some middle ground, then there might be some progress. But right now we have unions trying to get more pay for less work. If we would all not worry about money so much, and work to bring more jobs back to America then we wouldn't have the problem of companies shipping our jobs overseas.

Answer 3

Corporations run on profit, not greed. Jobs are leaving America because they can be done cheaper in other countries. Since Americans refuse to pay more for domestic products, there go the jobs.

Walmart is one of the big corporations that you can credit with facilitating American job loss. 2 years ago, the 3 remaining American companies that were in the "high end" flat screen television market filed a law suit against China for dumping. They won. However, during the time the complaint was filed and the rendering of a decision, one of them went out of business. When I found out Walmart filed a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of the Chinese companies, I vowed never to purchase a single thing from them.

You can also blame unions that put the long term financial welfare of American companies (and by default, American workers) at risk by making unreasonable demands that provided workers short term gains at the expense of "long term" job security. But hey, it's so much easier to blame President Bush.

By the way, I'm on your side but our politicians are not. That includes Republicans and Democrats. Hillary promised to raise the H1-B limits so that companies can replace American workers in the jobs they can't outsource with cheap foreign scab labor.

Answer 4

Mostly agree. I keep wishing someone will do a remake of the movie "1984," maybe even using a W. Bush look a like. With all the court, cop and 'reality' shows on TV, can any one not see what's happening in America? Tammy Bruce has written a new book, "The New American Revolution" that may help 'we the people' fight back, but I don't agree with every thing she says either. I'm just not very agreeable (must be getting old).

Answer 5

Companies do not operate on greed. As much as I tend to hate corporations, even I admit this is a gross misconception. Corporations do what they know they must do in order to survive.

If a corporation knows that another corporation will capitalize on its earning (or cost-minimizing) potential, it must chose between the so-called "greedy" alternative or simply going bankrupt.

Answer 6

I think you're right, corporate greed is responsible for most of this. I think it's very significant that the only candidates that talk about bringing jobs back to America, Huckabee and Edwards, don't have very much funding.

Answer 7

Totaly agree! I live in Michigan and the job market is slim and none.

Answer 8

This one day as you call it is past already, we are beyond that , you can't imagine at what point of ambition and greed we have arrived!

Answer 9

Agree. But I'll be dead by the time it reaches movie worthy levels of disproportion

Answer 10

Capitalism is good if it is guided and regulated so that it works for us!!!