Economics: I just don't get it. We're persuaded that outsourcing is the way to go to increase the economy. Fine, but?

Economics: I just don't get it. We're persuaded that outsourcing is the way to go to increase the economy. Fine, but ... ... at what price?

Doesn't outsourcing mean shutting down production in our own country and importing cheaper goods that people can easily afford? This results in job losses here by the thousands, even millions for all I know. Now the U.S. president is talking about jobs, jobs, - but didn't they see that coming long ago?

What went wrong? I'm in Canada, a smaller population than U.S., but the outcome is the same. Are we to blame free trade for any of our troubles?

Or is it a transition period from old methods of getting things done to a more efficient way? If so, how does it justify job losses and economic problems we have at this time? Clarification would be appreciated.

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When Bill Clinton was president, He passed a bill called NAPH. What it did was to let any business that wanted to move to Mexico and build a business there, they could with the blessings of the United States Government. This bill would allow any business to operate in Mexico, bring there goods back to the US to be sold with no penalty’s.

It would be just like being here in the US. Bill Clinton explained that this would be good for the United States and Mexico. This would bring plenty of jobs to Mexico.

The people of Mexico would no longer be trying to leave there own Country. That would stop the illegal people from crossing our borders every day. It would in time also bring up there cost of living, and these people would be making the same pays as we enjoy here in America. It all sounded good there was only a minority of people that opposed this bill at the time.

What actually happened was Company’s by the hundred started to move to Mexico, GM, Motorola, Hershey Chocolates etc. The pay scale in Mexico was and still is fifty cents an hour. Company’s started making large profits that they have never made before. These Company's for got all about the people here in the United States that supported them for years.

They left here and left there workers out in the cold. Company's are still moving to Mexico with no regard for the US worker. Yet we still keep buying there products.

Who had a Hershey bar this week, or some Kisses, or bought a Cell phone, or for that matter, just about any electronic device made to day. It will say assembled in Mexico. The labor market in Mexico will always be cheap labor, because of the corrupt government there.

This one type of out sourcing has cost millions of jobs in the US. It is time our government say's we made a mistake. Lets fix it.

You can't just revoke the bill and ask these Company's to come back. You can though impose a import penalty from Mexico that is high enough to hurt these Company's unless they reopen business here in the US. Many of these business still have there original factories here sitting empty.

For example Hershey, GM, they all have empty Manufacturing plants just waiting to open again, but not for fifty cent a hour employees. Yes this is costing us millions in taxes and jobs. When will our Government wake up and start looking out for us the American people.

You don't make your own shoes, or computers, because other people do it better, and cheaper. Almost everything you have is "outsourced" to some degree. What's so great about a national border that says, "Oh, those other guys are too far away.

" The job is the job, whether it's in Ontario or Bangladesh. You get more things, and better things, for letting other people do the work. The money you save can go to other things.

In hard economics times, it's BETTER that you outsourced some things to people who can do them more cheaply. If we didn't, we'd starve. All I'm trying to do is to encourage you not to oversimplify.

In doing so I'm oversimplifying myself. There are good reasons to to outsource to other countries: they may not treat their workers well, or do bad things to the environment, and so forth. The "right" amount of outsourcing is a matter for debate.

I'm just trying to point out that it is a debate, worth having, and not just something to be railed against.

Goldie080 replied to post #1: 2 #1 - Thanks Pam. I'm not railing, I don't have that kind of energy, lol. Here again the printed word falls short of one's intent.

However, I'm extremely puzzled, that's all, after hearing of the president emphasizing jobs, jobs, but where was he and others before those jobs disappeared? Surely the economists could see the future? That's my point.

1 - Thanks Pam. I'm not railing, I don't have that kind of energy, lol. Here again the printed word falls short of one's intent.

However, I'm extremely puzzled, that's all, after hearing of the president emphasizing jobs, jobs, but where was he and others before those jobs disappeared? Surely the economists could see the future? That's my point.

3 No one seems to mind outsourcing jobs to foreign countries as long as it's not their job that is being outsourced.

No one seems to mind outsourcing jobs to foreign countries as long as it's not their job that is being outsourced.

Kar* replied to post #2: 4 I agree with you goldie080, I have often been puzzled by the same thing. I everything is outsourced, what are we supposed to be doing here? How are people supposed to make a living if all the jobs are outsourced?

There has to be some kind of balance. Products might be cheaper, but if nobody is working, how are they supposed to get the money to buy them? .

I agree with you goldie080, I have often been puzzled by the same thing. I everything is outsourced, what are we supposed to be doing here? How are people supposed to make a living if all the jobs are outsourced?

There has to be some kind of balance. Products might be cheaper, but if nobody is working, how are they supposed to get the money to buy them?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.