Quote:
Originally posted by Epidemic
What is the solution, all those who are crying the sky is falling. How do you force companies to hire local tallent who can produce the same unskilled tallent for 2 & 3 even 10 times the cost of overseas.
I guess one way is to start demanding equal pay scales in foreign countries. yea thatll go over big.
China you must pay your unskilled labor 13 dollars an hour to put the head on a doll.
India you must pay 22 dollars an hour for programmers.
What is the solution? |
Hello again this is Tony,
My apologies for posting as Neo, but I hardly frequent this forum so I will not clog up your bandwidth with another user name. I do feel that this is an important enough topic to warrant discussion and thus I will borrow Neo's handle once again.
I will concede to the fact that I am complaining about this problem of outsourcing, but it is only because I see many American workers who have had their sky fall upon them many times, like my friend Charlie. When you see over a dozen people that you have worked with, whom have been with a company for over 8+ years and in Charlies case 15 years, building it up only to receive a pink slip, it drives a wedge into your heart. I understand when a company starts slipping in profits and has no choice but to lay off its force. But this is not the case with most of our major firms. They will admit to ever increasing profits, but they plainly state that they closed down their U.S. companies in order to stay competitive with the other companies who have moved over seas. It is here that we must change the policies. America's strength and economy is built on capitalism which promotes intense competition and rewards the most astute entrepeneurs and investors which in turn benefits consumers by lowering cost of goods. This is all well and good as long as we are playing by the same rules, but if you allow the entrepeneurs a way to cheat the system by moving operations out of the country then of course the most astute companies will pack up and leave for greener$$ pastures. Now I say cheat the system because our capitalist system was designed to promote growth in our country, namely large manufacturing firms and corporations who in turn employ hundreds, thousands, and even entire townships of people thus completing and strengthing the circle between producer and consumer. By not properly regulating outsourcing over-seas, the corporations and manufacturers(and their investors) are the only people benefiting whereas those hundreds and thousands and townships are now unemployed and scrambling to Walmart with their pride stuck between their legs in order to stretch their welfare checks that all us who still have a job are paying for with our taxes. I think we should reform the Free Trade agreement and rename it the Fair Trade agreement so that America has a fair chance at keeping her companies and thus her people fed and sheltered. We can do this by increasing import tarrifs or export of labor tarrifs. This is done with import cars where the US implies a tarrif on them in order to even out the market with US makes. We can make it a requirement that a US company must build a comparable company in the US for every company built over-seas. We can offer much more aggressive tax programs and benefits for firms that remain in the US. There are many creative ways to encourage growth both in the US and over-seas, it should not be strictly one way or another. As the policies stand, what level headed entrepeur would stay on this playing field when the cheat codes are over-seas.
What am I doing about it? I will make sure that my employees get paid a decent living wage and encourage them to become part of my business. I will make sure that they and their family be insured at the expense of my personal wealth because that is what I have always wanted and dreamed of America to be.
Once again thanks for listening to the diatribe
Best Regards,
Tony