publiusvarus wrote:
Kuja,
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sending one manufacturing job to China
This is where your argument breaks down. You assume that because a company was created in the US that the jobs must remain in the US. That in fact US citizens have some kind of right to those jobs. Here's a news flash...these jobs are not guaranteed to US citizens. I actually watched a show on the trvl channel or something like it that laid out how Wal-Mart supplies it's stores in China as well as other third world countries. To simply say they exploit child labour is a lie. When you use terminology like "living wage" I can tell you could care less whether or not a company is profitable, only that it employees people you say it should for a price you think they should. Any of this getting through?
If an American company thinks it can send work to another country and then import that item to the US - in order to circumvent paying someone here a liveable wage - you are damn right those jobs should stay here.
And you know what? Thomas Jefferson - you know, the guy who wrote a little diddy called the Declaration of Independence, whom if the British caught would have tried and hanged, the guy dubbed one of the best US presidents and one of our strongest forefathers - wrote "Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains." hmmm. It sounds like a guy who was so critical to the birth of our nation had absolutely ZERO tolerance for business or people selling their wares. Would you care to call Thomas Jefferson a Communist since he detests business so? Would you care to say he is un-American for thinking if our country was based on commerce it would lead to widespread corruption?
You call yourself a true American, and yet if it came to supporting an American family by giving the father a job or supporting capitalism by sending his job overseas, you will pick supporting capitalism. You are loyal to some political ideal but a traitor to America.
If you were a REAL American, you would pick supporting America's families over some merchant who doesnt give a shÃt about what happens in America so long as they get paid. Thomas Jefferson was right about you.
But go ahead, support sending those jobs overseas. Support sending manufacturing jobs to places like China. Sacrifice an American's well being to support your horseshÃt, dogshÃt capitalist dogma while harming our way of life. Hey, as an added bonus, when people are out of work and they are on welfare you can complain and call them lazy social leeches while you are getting a load dumped down your gullet by those very merchants ole' tommy J was talking about.