another U.S. company packs their bags and heads south !

Huh?.................

 

Living in Canada I have very little sympathy for all the whining about a company leaving. I can remember lots of companies about twenty years ago moving to the southern states, with the freedom to work laws. What did you think they would not learn and would stay with you. That is not how business works they go where they get the best deal, cheapest labour, no polution laws, no labour laws. There next move will be farther south, in about ten years.

 

simple solution,,,build a bigger plant here and create jobs for the unemployed at the rate things are going mexico gona have all the work,,,,,,,wat to go our faithfull gooberment at work,,,,,as these companys seek out to build there plants and take the jobs from americans,tariff the crap out of them for hireing sweat shop labor

 

JohnP3, you hit on a few good notes. Governments often lack the cognitive abilities to discern that they function in a competitive environment as well. Regulation, whether it is environmental, labor, or what-have-you, will increase costs associated with doing business. Unchecked expansion of a regulatory system will increase the costs to the point that business will need to re-allocate resources to more competitive countries.

Americans are woefully ignorant of how much is outsourced between even our own states based on the same factors used to outsource to other countries. But state borders are arbitrarily disregarded as irrelevant and national borders somehow more relevant.

The same people who complain about outsourcing to foreign countries are the same people who fail to recognize the single largest job killer in their own back yard and that is... wait for it... wait for it... : technology. Technology has killed more jobs than have ever been outsourced overseas. Our manufacturing output in this country is still numero uno. But we don't always require manpower to accomplish this feat. Anyone remember the big "robot" scare of the 1980s? How robots were going to put a ton of people out of work? And they did. But they also required new workers to repair those robots and install those robots and design those robots. So to those same people who hate outsourcing, shouldn't we be equally angry about technology doing the job of people when we have people who need to be employed? Should we ban email because postal workers need jobs? I mean, why do we outsource to technology with nary a whisper of recognition? Rhetorical questions....

 

I have mistakenly replayed to your post. It was directed to Brickman. Wrong button.

 

It was your post to Brickman that I was asking "Huh?" about.

Your post to him made no sense to me.

 

No debate here mr. Brickman you have your opinion and I have mine.

 

Then ask yourself if the government does really have much to say when company is moving abroad? That's Brickmans approach to the problem. I think that with NAFTA, WTO and other agreements in effect, the name of the game is international labor arbitrage. You want to keep business in the country? - Let's start working for a dollar a day, slash corporate tax to zero, toss environmental laws away. We'll have Detroit full of factories back again. Just the slums will stay the same.

 

Let me throw my dog in this fight. I myself have tried very hard at not buying foreign made items. I know some things you have no choice, but even a little bit will show if enough do it.if you call Dell and get a red dot hang up and write a letter They hate paper I know! if they want you to make a payment online send it in! again more paper. if you can find it made by someone else even if its higher then use the other. DON'T SHOP AT WAL MART! these places get so mad at me I am currently unemployed not drawing unemployment because I quit and credit card was wanting money and of course it was an off shore collector I explained that I wanted all correspondence by U.S. Mail she got angry and I got ugly she threatened I laughed My wife use to work for them I said I was recording for prosecution reasons and she hung up! see they hate paper!

 

Exactly......I understand McDonald's is hiring......