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Re: Re: John Deere moving jobs to Mexico????
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Posted by Still Shocked in Oklahoma on January 19, 2004 at 14:55:13 from (66.210.107.197):
In Reply to: Re: John Deere moving jobs to Mexico???? posted by Phil GA on January 19, 2004 at 14:34:01:
I fully understand the WHY of it, and the guys who talk about global economy are the WHO of it. NAFTA and all of that malarky. It is just sad that John Deere--another money-grubbing corporation, of course--is doing it. It wasn't long ago that Singer went Kaput, the last of the great US names to fall to "globalism". You can't have good old-time US manufacturing in a (gag) "global economy", where the object is to allow businesses to exploit this or that foreign country's underpaid impoverished workers in order to produce their products at the lowest prices to maximize profits for their stockholders. Do we sell/export enough manufactured goods to make it worth while to allow the imported, or partly imported, items to come in and compete? I think not. Do we want to retreat from this globalism horror and, through protective tariffs, get back to quality manufacturing by our own people? It would mean higher prices for us, but that would be ameliorated by US wages to US workers, who are the bulk of the purchasers, anyway. Do we really want to keep on "globalizing" until everything we buy is from Communist China, and all our US dollars end up there? Ask the consumer, whether union member or not, whether he would be happy to buy US-made VCRs at $1,500.00 a pop instead of the $89.85 Chinese jobs at Wal-Mart. I didn't intend to get you guys going so, but I got my own dander up again, so I shouldn't complain. Shocked
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