Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Gondring
If globalization/equalization continues, and Americans can't provide a good argument why they should be paid so much more than other workers, then the only way I see Americans maintaining their current standards of wealth is to forget jobs. Wages will be minimal. Americans must be the owners, getting a profit by using low-wage workers...and that's what the CEOs, etc., are doing now.

CEO's and globalists apparently want to have it both ways at the expense of working productive American people. Most productive Americans do not live nor do they want to live like those working in third world countries and the cost of living is not even comparable. These are exactly the reason that the Democrats WILL take power and we will become a socialist country. Hope all the globalists and cheap labor CEO's are happy destroying the American Dream for common man, not to mention the Republican Party who fails to address the average working American. What percentage of the population do you consider to be CEO's? This is ridiculous. Who is going to buy these products made by cheap wages?

92 posted on 12/23/2007 4:52:32 PM PST by Snoopers-868th
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 82 | View Replies ]


To: Snoopers-868th
CEO's and globalists apparently want to have it both ways at the expense of working productive American people.

That's part of capitalism. Note also, CEO isn't equal to "owners"...stock owners are often idiots in their voting.

Most productive Americans do not live nor do they want to live like those working in third world countries and the cost of living is not even comparable.

Agreed. Most Americans want other people to live in those conditions to make goods cheaply so they can maintain their standard of living as it is. Unfortunately for some Americans, these other people want to improve their lot, and do so by offering their labor at a rate they are willing to work. This is called the market rate.

As long as there are people willing to work at that rate, then it's crazy for any consumer around the world to pay Americans more unless they get correspondingly more in return.

Who is going to buy these products made by cheap wages?

Those few who are the owners or who are clever and gain an advantage in the marketplace.

Don't think that I'm happy at the situation. I would rather America kept taxes and government burdens low, our work ethic, education, and innovation high.

104 posted on 12/24/2007 8:35:06 AM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 92 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson