Life can suck sometimes, it's no reason to screw the economy.
Yet you don't think outsourcing our jobs and corporations is screwing our economy? What is Michael Moore always complaining (you would say whining) about? Flint, Michigan, and how GM taking its factory south crippled the town. Now, maybe GM saves some money on labor by building in Mexico. But maybe that hurts the U.S. more than it helps us by GM making a bigger profit. Maybe NAFTA wasn't such a good idea. Bringing our wages down to comensate for the lack of foreign solvency is not a solution. It's "global thinking." The kind of global thinking employed in a communist economic system.
Yes. You ignore the costs of not keeping the jobs in America, not the least of which is a skyrocketing cost of living in the face of a consistently debased currency.
What? First it's good for companies to outsource because it saves them money, which helps somebody in the economy (though I'm not sure who) and now you're telling me that they should complain of LOSING money by sending our jobs to Pakistan? Our currency is "debased" (Well, it goes back to coming off the gold standard, really) because we don't invest heavily enough in our own country, instead we send our jobs elsewhere, borrow and print more money and generally dig ourselves into a hole.
The only way people can monopolize and inflate prices is with government help, either by imposing tariffs or other such regulations to make competitor's goods cost more, or by outright banning competition.
Wow, Microsoft and Wal Mart don't seem to be doing too bad of a job without the government's help. "Name any other big multimerged company here." Government collusion merely indicates corruption, not the actual role of the government. I sure wonder how much the economy would suffer if antitrust regulations were more strictly enforced. Wow, we might have to pay a bit more, which would only illustrate how far wage scales have fallen for the general populace and how great a discrepancy there is. Minimum wage isn't livable wage. Start there.
But then again, our only other option isn't prostitution or crime. Those people take those jobs because they are better than their other alternatives. And as they increase their productivity they will be able to demand better and better conditions, and they will get them. No economy develops over night, especially if the government is working dilligently to help it develop.
Well, considering the extent of our non-millitary foreign aid is about 0.01% of the economy here, maybe we should be aiding those countries in other ways to help them build their economies. You know, other than by taking American jobs in what you are characterizing as a "charitable measure." We should feel good that they're taking our jobs. What a country!
People here in America used to work in **** too until they could demand better conditions.
And if we keep exporting labor, what will we be working in exactly here? Or will we just not be working? If the American public built this country and this economy to where they could demand better conditions, should they then abandon their ambition? Did we conquer the world or something?
I'm not interested in saving American jobs
That, sir, is obvious.
nor anyone else's jobs. I'm interested in the economy being allowed to move itself toward more and more efficient means of production so everyone can be better off.
What you mean is you are knee-deep in global capitalism. The problem is that we don't run the globe. We barely run this country. More efficient means of production in your definition is "cheap labor, and plenty of it." How is an American better off because someone else is doing his job cheaper? Oh yeah, you don't care about American jobs. Where exactly will most Americans have left to work when everything is outsourced? McDonalds?
Our deficit is the fault of the government's over spending, which is necessary for the regulations you seem to love so much to be enforced.
No, government inefficiency is what leads to overspending. The ineffiency can be decreased. It's like in New Jersey, where the NJ Turnpike has never made a profit. Does it make any sense, considering that the Turnpike was established to make money to pay for the road, and it takes in huge sums of money? No. That's why you establish independent boards to oversee large scale projects. That way you're more likely to see your money's worth, rather than it ending up in executive pockets. Trusting corporations to oversee themselves as opposed to government intervention, I might add, is laughable. Remember Enron?
Our dollar is devalued because we've been in a terminal state of inflation for a long, long time. Once more, the fault of the government.
OK, so let's look at your suggestion to solve it- send our jobs elsewhere and punish the evil American middle class for making too much money. CEOs and upper management deserve that hard-earned cash for figuring out that they could make a bigger profit elsewhere. After all, it's "a more efficient means of production"! What better way to stimulate the American economy than by having fewer jobs here!
Hate to break it to you pal, but a healthy import export market has always been a stapple of the American market
Uh.. hate to break it to you, pal, but about the only thing we've been exporting lately are Big Macs and our jobs.
