So how does the government address the problem of outsourced jobs? Wasnt democrats previously wanting to address that issue?
Hi W2L,
Why does a government that's running less than 4% unemployment even want to address outsourced jobs? Don't you guys get it? Every country has outsourced jobs. Yamaha has a complete corporate structure here in the U.S. Honda, Toyota, Volvo, BMW are all foreign companies that have outsourced jobs
IN the U.S. They have multiple yuge factories and production facilities that operate right here on a piece of American dirt, plugged into an American energy source and employing American people!!!!!!!
Foreign-owned
companies employed 6.8 million workers in the
United States in 2015, up 22% from 2007, according to preliminary data from the
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
6.8 million Americans work for companies whose head offices are deemed to be foreign companies!! It's a world economy folks!! The U.S. is doing just fine in this world economy. This issue of American companies setting up work sites in other countries is not the 'terrible, terrible bug-a-boo that some are trying to make it out to be.
There are literally hundreds of foreign headquartered companies doing business in the U.S. and there are literally hundreds of American companies with some sort of presence in other countries. Now, for a lot of those American companies that are now looking at retaliatory tariffs or even our own tariffs making their supply chain more expensive, there is actually some evidence that some American companies that have worldwide sales will bolster or open new foreign investment.
Harley Davidson just showed us that. A lot of their parts come from China and now the parts that they buy from China are costing them more and hence the motorcycles they sell in Brazil are now more expensive than other motorcycles sold in Brazil. So, what can H-D do? Well, they can open or strengthen their manufacturing facilities in a country that isn't trying to make their production more expensive by slapping tariffs on their supply chain so that they can continue to sell motorcycles in Brazil at competitive prices. Oh my, our zeal for tariffs has just cost us American manufacturing jobs.
You remember this incident, right? President Trump made a big stink about how he was going to make H-D pay for moving production out of the U.S. But the whole reason they were even considering it was because they could see that tariffs were going to put them out of business in other countries. Folks...it's a world economy!!!!! Ford can make automobiles cheaper in Mexico and the more tariffs we slap on all of their parts chain, then the more cars they're going to make in Mexico. Because those Mexican made cars can be sold in Europe at competitive prices. It's a world economy folks!!! Don't you guys get it!?????
All we're doing by making American made products more expensive to other countries is just cutting off our own nose to spite our face. Sure, we'll sell our products at home because everything is more expensive at home because of the tariffs. But there are a lot of American companies that sell on a worldwide platform who can make more money in those markets by moving their production to other countries. Yes, the little mom and pop ice cream shoppe on the corner isn't going to be effected much by all of this except that all of their cups and bowls and straws and tables and chairs are going to be more expensive and it's going to cost the American consumer more to have their once a week ice cream at the little shoppe down the street.
But many, many, many of American companies - and certainly those that employ the greatest number of people - operate on a worldwide scale and tariffs only serve to make American products more expensive to Mexico and Canada and Brazil and India and Great Britain, etc., etc., etc. Believe it or not our nation has been running great guns economically for the last 10 years. If we skip over the four years before the last ten years, our economy was running great guns for the 10 years before that, too. All of this with companies moving here and there and operating all over the world. People in America were employed and making decent salaries and living pretty good lives as the world might measure that metric. Then some company announces that they're going to open up a facility in Singapore and all of the sudden the sky is falling. We're all doomed!!!! The world's coming to an end as we know it!!! How un-American of them!!!! Americans are losing their jobs, blah, blah, blah, blah. Nevertheless, through all of these terrible, terrible events...unemployment ranges from 4-6% pretty steady for all those years.
God bless,
In Christ, ted