Because govt. regulation and unions have made employing people a gigantic and costly pain.
>>Because govt. regulation and unions have made employing people a gigantic and costly pain.
11.1% of the labor force are represented by unions. In more than half of the country, the unions have very little bargaining power and really don’t pay much more than non-union jobs. The old “unions are driving jobs overseas” cliche is worn out. It was true 30 years ago to some extent (but we didn’t have so many ways to outsource back then).
Government regulation does add to the costs of doing business, but they add to every facet of doing business. And in foreign countries, there are certain costs associated with dealing with the governments too.
No, another poster was correct: they told us that if we let the rich get REALLY rich, then the wealth will trickle down to us. It did for a while, so the rich came up with new strategies. We call it the Cheap Labor Express.
1) Outsource manufacturing
2) Import cheap foreign labor for service jobs
3) Import/outsource tech labor
4) Devalue labor until Americans will work for foreign wages and voluntarily lower their standard of living.
5) If that doesn’t work, invent an environmental crisis to demand a lower standard of living for those who are laregly unaffected by #1-4.
I don’t care if the rich are rich. But a person really needs to bury their head in...ummm...the sand to not see what is happening here.
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