Job Loss

OK, this is a red meat issue for us conservatives, right? We like to see "Made in America" on all the stuff we buy because that means our fellow Americans are working, making money, and spreading the greenbacks around the good old USA.

But it ain't happening. I sell foreign (Japanese made) cars. I sell a lot to former American label car buyers. They tell me they are just tired of cheap American made junk. When I was a kid, it was cheap Japanese junk. Now, everything, it seems, is made in some foreign place.

There's lots of reasons for this, but how does it get reversed? Do we, as some have suggested, (such as here) adopt the Canadian model and mandate a return to America of all jobs lost due to downsizing and out sourcing?

There is a book called The Capitalist Manifesto by Andrew Bernstein, that should be read by every American, and every American who belongs to a union.

I won't spoil the ending for you, but I will ask you, if you own the company that outsources your job, and that outsourcing makes the company more profitable, would you complain?

If Americans built quality products, and if unions would use their millions of dollars for buying on behalf of its membership, equipment that improved productivity. well, we'd all be able to sit on the veranda and sip our mint juleps.

And we wouldn't need a nanny state to force jobs on the economy that are unproductive and inefficient.

Be careful what you wish for. We could end up being like France.

Half Baked Regards......