Why do Americans complain about outsourcing jobs and then complain about illegal immigrants?
FizzyBubbler is Back! asked:
One way or another, American companies have to cut corners to stay competitive with overseas counterparts. If you don’t want the jobs going overseas, then have the overseas people come to the US illegally and pay them squat. The only other option is to slash American wages in have, economic problems solved!
One way or another, American companies have to cut corners to stay competitive with overseas counterparts. If you don’t want the jobs going overseas, then have the overseas people come to the US illegally and pay them squat. The only other option is to slash American wages in have, economic problems solved!
So which should it be?
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Cause either way, people are losing money! (and the fat cats in the corporations are getting fatter). patriot
Cons love to complain! Average College Student
Those aren’t Americans. Those are liberals. What
Or the third option: Stop their record-breaking profits every year, pay Americans decent wages and give them some benefits, and cut the CEOs down to a paltry few million a year in compensation? The all-mighty quest for maximum profits prompts me to play the world’s smallest violin for the poor CEOs and boards of directors.. Franco Potanco
Well skippy…… outsourcing is legal whereas illegals are……..well, you know! Sally says…
Those complaining about immigration are typically not complaining about outsourcing, and vice versa.
Conservatives want a free market regulated with machine guns.
Liberals want a free market unskewed by rich class cheats, bribery, and slavery (prison industrial complex: US holds 23.4% of world prisoners with only 4% of world population). Pluto C. Rat
What jobs are you talking about? I hardly think an illegal immigrant is going to get hired at any customer service or IT call center in the US. SugarBear
US construction can’t be sent overseas, see? Nor US agriculture, see?
By sending the illegals away, Americans are guaranteed to get to compete for those jobs. Tommy B
False choice. And you think this is about geography? Being against both is not a contradiction since the underlying grievance is about Americans without jobs, not were the non-citizens who take those jobs live.
Do corporations really need to show ever-increasing profits to satisfy short-sighted stock holders? Should execs get golden parachutes when employee pensions keep disappearing?
The answer is that our economy is a flawed system, operated by greedy and inept people. No amount of wage cuts or outsourcing can solve this problem. DE Didicoy
I lived in an Asian country in the late eighties. I learned things as no school could teach me… especially regarding the power currency valuation has over the economies of nations.
The U.S. dollar has been kept artificially high partly by our military super-power status and, in larger part, by monetary policy of the Federal Reserve.
What happens to a nation whose currency is overvalued? It loses jobs to nations whose currencies are actually floated on the markets.
Outsourcing to nations with market-set currency values saves money because we, who hold dollars, pay workers in their own currency (which is not artificially inflated) a much lower wage, comparatively. And it is still more than they’re accustomed to.
Illegal aliens (they don’t work cheap… have you ever actually tried hiring one?) send billions back to their home countries where the dollars are converted to local currency. Worse yet, one of the most profitable practices of smuggling cartels is the human smuggling of pregnant girls (often as young as 9 or 10) over the border and into a hospital at the last minute so they can give birth on U.S. soil.
Of course, the 14th Amendment was clearly worded so that its citizenship clause would not apply to persons whose jurisdiction was uncertain and its authors had to change the wording repeatedly to garner enough votes for ratification. But DC could care less about the Constitution.
Those little girls leave the hospital with guarantees of government (tax-funded) assistance in amounts that are several times greater than my elderly mom receives after having worked all her life and raising us without a cent from the government. Of course, she and Dad paid into social security with no gratitude from either the government OR these pre-teen moms OR their kids.
… serenely, soMEone
You can start by voluntarily reducing your own salary. The situation with the US labor market is that products that are made by American companies, for american consumption, are no longer manufactured here. A truly effective approach is to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, that way, American companies that want to sell products to Americans, have to produce them here. avomatic
How about Americans who want jobs their on selves. That is if they hadn’t been outsourced or taken by an illegal. Oscar
How about we put some tariffs on foreign goods like the cheap Chinese crap they sell at Target, kick all the illegals out of the US and give those jobs back to the people who used to do them at decent wages, and stop taxing and regulating American companies so heavily they have to leave just to stay in business? In other words, the way we used to do in this country. babbie