American Workers Approve Corporations Decision to Outsource Jobs

Too many Americans seem determined to act contrary to their own best interests.

I live in a small tourist town, when possible I try and shop locally but cant find everything I need. Five years ago a massive Walmart opened...everybody gravitated to it like "Zombies".

So far few local business have failed but its just a question of when.

Buy american products you say because if you don't then you are actually accepting outsourcing of jobs. In some instances, I agree but in most instances it is quite impossible for a person to buy something that is too expensive for their pockets. This is the reason why people vote for the government. Whoever is in power have the means to curtail incoming cheap products and to hell with trade practices that is unfair. The government must first see if the American manufacturers are charging or overcharging the public. They must correct this, Then raise the tariff to all incoming products so that it would be at par with the american prices. To put some teeth into this, the government must also punish those who intentionally increase their prices way beyond manufacturing cost not by just fines or levees. They must put the corporate officers in prison for their acts because it is against the public interest and that should be supreme over profit taking regardless if they have suffered loses in prior years. Why? because if the government let this happen it would be impossible to track them down later with all the accounting genuises out there. It takes years to uncover such anomalies.

What you may want to look at is the businesses left now, how busy are they now if you think back to what they were? Keep supporting small business as they are your neighbors and the are fighting a brutal competitor for limited resources, that being you a consumer. If you see something missing mention it or offer the suggestion of a suggestion box, or a way to e-mail suggestions if you prefer. Small businesses don't have the massive budget to have strategists to assess every customer need. Mine was a towing and transport business and I can't tell you how helpful suggestions would be. Over 6 years I had a few and tried to adjust with a limited budget to work from. Most fierce competitors - Motor Clubs. I could beat them on long hauls and they don't deal with unregistered salvage or POV's. When I left the area to go out of state the phone rings all of a sudden, and I couldn't be everywhere at once. I adapted going further in debt taking on added equipment and a limited partner. End of 08 following fuel hitting $5/gallon work dropped by 40% as salvage value dropped 90% in 2-3 months. I was adding Motor Club support but, the financial strains by that point were overwhelming at best. Regular customers slowed their spending as creditors cut and froze accounts by the thousands. There is always a niche but, sometimes it takes years to find them. Surviving those changes to find just the right niche is very difficult for even the most attentive owners. I invested and assessed thousands of sales to find my customers voice. It takes your customers to tell you what they want versus saying nothing then wonder why they don't have it. With reasonable expectations. I had people tell me their car was in an accident so I rushed across town to find a car in a driveway where it had been for a month or more. No rush needed. Today nothing remains of my business other than years of strategic accounting records. Performance since start in 03 including 09 downfall over 200% yearly increase in sales dollars. Small business faces a lot more challenges than outsource workforces to increase profit, raise rates by force on credit for profits, buy bulk volume then monopolize by price alone, and no consideration for the community. Being as we live there we give all we can and ask just for your support. A little here and there is all it takes to keep going as we grow we improve for what you may not find available today we can adapt to meet a need, maybe not exactly but, we survive by adaptations for you. I competed with tow companies around for decades and started with a 1 ton pickup, and a car hauling trailer. I ended up with the same trailer, 2 hauler trucks, and a flatbed tow truck at my peak. I gave it my all. Pictured on my home page is the fleet I built that is no more. Hope to rebuild is all I can do now. It would've taken no more than a little more community support with occasional patience.

you make it seem like we have any more control over it than the people who answer phones for american express and go home to live in a shack.

we cant do anything because they control so much of the economy that we have no alternatives. those alternatives have been legislated away by the lobbyists paid by the corporations who require that there be no alternatives.

what you are suggesting would require there to be a free market, where consumers exercise control through their choices. but this is not a free market. goods and services are sold in one market but produced in another, so the market forces that exist in one market do not translate to the other.

all of the control is in the corporation's hands. where we've been stupid is in allowing our govt to enforce a myth of the free market — we've been duped by their use of language to believe that anything that has to do with being exploited for profit is inherent in capitalism. it's not. capitalism wouldnt be failing right now if we actually had a free market, where a company wouldnt be able to undercut wages simply by making sure its workers are not operating within the same economic conditions as its consumers.

Powerisknowledge comment #7,

If only this could be reality. However we are not dealing with a block size community or even a small town. This is country wide, with each and every person having their own agenda and needs. Some may want expensive things while others would just want to get by. Others will not even care what others wants. ergo, with such a diversity how could anyone expect this whole conglomerate of people to act as one body. Even in religion, go to a town and you will see various sect. There is only one entity that can handle this kind of problem and it has to be the government. They have the money. the clout and the power to initiate and implement whatever program is necessary to achieve whatever it is that they want to achieve. This is one of the basic reason why people go to the polls to vote. It is not a question of relegating responsibility and looking for others to solve a problem. It is a basic question of accepting reality in a real world.

Last thing I ever want to do is shop at some Ma & Pa shop that with:

1) An inferior shopping experience

2) An inferior or overpriced product ( Because it has to be American made.)

3) A Ma & Pa working situation that really only treats Ma & Pa fair and most of the employees are underpaid, overworked, and ruled by nazi like thugs ( i.e. Ma&Pa)

We have been creating a global market by selling stuff overseas for years. Why is wrong now that some of the jobs go overseas in that same global market?

My grandmother would have liked you. She did the same thing. Problem is, it doesn't solve the problem. In fact you don't really articulate the problem but rather, advocate an end, more or less, to free trade. The truth is that the world is equalizing. Why should a janitor/ mechanic/ tow truck operator in the US make more than the same in China or Africa? Even if there are good reasons (higher cost of living), that will not stop the squeeze. Outlaw 'free' trade - just try it. Yankees outlawed alcohol once, the same will happen again and folks in my town might well profit from such foolishness. The real answer is to analyse the problem (ie why are costs here so high) and correct it. I suggest folks think about the history of Britain over past few centuries for clues as to how systems adjust to outside competition. But first, the collapse must complete itself, the system must be purged and quite possibly, protectionism must rear its ugly head (again).

Eventually wages will fall so far that goods will also have to be lowered in price in order for people to be able to afford to purchase them. Right now it's the unskilled/semi-skilled workers losing out. Eventually they will get an education and further reduce the wages of skilled workers. I know a glut of nurses graduating in my area looking for work. I also know they are willing to take a lower wage than current nurses. Perhaps this will lower the price of healthcare? Either way, the system will be equalized.

Power is knowledge,

You are referring to a program that was taken over by the state and the government not by individuals alone. It is true, they made it so that it became a byword but in the end it took the government to make it real and nationwide. Further you are referring to something that is criminal in nature not economics. There is a lot of difference in the approach between the two. The first is highly emotional, the second barely considers emotions.

For a fair wage,

There is a glut of nurses and a lot of new nurses graduating. Do you think the Nursing association will permit the lowering of salaries of their members. This I got to see because I know of no professional association who will ever permit that to happen. You know what? They will try to convince the government to hire more nurses on temporary status to give the new graduates jobs and hope to high heaven that will find job elsewhere later, like overseas on government expense.