Originally Posted by preludespeeder
First JMT21 you talk about how the unemployment rate has remained constant for the last fifty years. I agree with you but the question I ask you is what is the quality of the jobs that people are getting. For example, you have a small town that has a group of mom and pop shops selling goods to the town, employing people with jobs that pay above minimum wage. Then you get a big company who comes in and opens up a lost cost super center who sells everthing for cheaper and that shuts the small businesses down. Now the unemployment rate has not changed but now the wage rate has gone down, so that now affects quality of life of people in the town and to top it all off the big business is now taking all of the revenue out of the city and lining share holders pockets. But gosh darn it unemployment stayed the same. And I know you are thinking "hey they are paying less though now" but think for one minute you save what a few dollars on useless things but you lose two dollars an hour in wage and the business owners are now poor like you.
Are you talking about a company moving its factory overseas, or are you talking about wal-mart moving into town? It sounds like the latter. Look at who works at a place like wal-mart - lots of high school/college students, a few older folks, few disabled folks, and few of your typical working class folks. Who you don't see is many of the former mom and pop type employees. If a job sucks and dosen't pay enough, do you keep working there? No, this is America, you go find some greener grass.
When talking about outsourcing, realize that the times are always changing. What happened to the blacksmiths, saddle makers, elevator operatos, and soon to be auto workers? The times change, people lose their jobs, but people are also able to adapt and move on to something else.
Originally Posted by preludespeeder
Second thing is about the trade defecit. It is bad because with the endless cycle this country is in of soaring defecits and a soaring trade defecit, what do you thing is going to happen. If you look at the dollar it is going down which means now we have to pay more dollars to buy the same product from another nation. Just think oil.
What do I think is going to happen??? Nothing, not a single thing. I don't think you checked out the website in my previous post, please do so.
Originally Posted by preludespeeder
So not only are we taking money away from the people with offering lower paying jobs but now it is costing more money to get the same stuff. But gosh darn it I have to agree out source all of those jobs so we can pay less for stupid useless ****.
Go re-read ryanes examples, If it cost more to make things after outsourcing, it would never have been outsourced to begin with.