Which is a bigger threat to our workforce, exportation of American jobs or illegal immigration?
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If I work somewhere and illegals work there driving down the amount I make, it would suck. I would make less. If my job went to India, however, I would have no job at all. I think that would be worse.
Mexicans only take the low class jobs, so no one cares. however, exporting involves both low and high technology jobs, thus having a greater effect on our workforce.
Job exportation. At least a little of the money stays here with the immigrants.
Exportation is worse because the job actually leaves the country. With illegal immigration a lot of these guys are willing to do jobs that no American will do. But at least the job is still in America and if someone legal wanted to try and get the job at least they have that opportunity. If the job was in another country then there is no opportunity.
Work force exportation is the reason the US dollar is falling at a rapid rate. I say scrap these free-trade agreements and bring back tariffs on imported goods made from cheap and or slave labor.
Not to mention that corporations are going to places where the environmental laws are non existent so the don't need to install pollution control devices. And where workers rights don't exist. Sure the items they sell are apparently less expensive but what is the real price we are paying.
The blood sweat and tears of the unfortunate that get paid a pittance and the destruction of the earth by unfettered pollution.
Outsourcing, definitely.
It is becoming a one world economy. Corporations exist to generate profit for their shareholders not to supply workers with jobs. Pretty soon illegal imigrants won't want to come here anymore because the jobs will be in their home countries. This is all pretty disturbing. I blame labor unions for a lot of these problems as they have priced the american worker out of their jobs in this world economy.
It seems that the ages old import/export argument is killing our economy. Add in the illegal immigrants are benefiting from our government's welfare and it seems there's little value in good, honest work ethics for many in our country any more.
I had no idea this was happening, but the way you describe it, it does seem to be a bigger threat. However, I am also opposed to illegal immigrants taking jobs away from Americans. I'm not blaming the large companies or the immigrants as much as I blame the government for it's total lack of supervision and control. That to me is the biggest threat to the American work force and the economy.
The biggest threat is big business who has stripped out loyal employee's and replacing the work force with disposable contracting employee's. Contracting has weakened the security of employment.
I thought I would never say this, but I wish Unions would regain in power.
I would like to see Contracting Companies Crushed, they put up a office some place with an admistrative staff, stick their hand in my wallet and send me off to work for them at less than the position pays. Oh and I can be let go for "ANY" reason.
Both of these trends are working to lower our standard of living.
But the other side of that, is that standards are being raised elsewhere.
Eventually, we won't have any manufacturing to export.
We've already lost the electronics business to China.
Our cars are being made in Japan & Korea.
The computer software business is going to India.
Exportation of jobs, well now there is this company leaving and more person will be out of a job.
It seems both political mistakes are taking their toll and
doing their share in making more Americans jobless.
I don't view either as much of a threat.
Cars were bad news for the makers of buggy whips. Bulldozers put a lot of human diggers out of work. Computers and printers made it possible to replace rooms full of women who were employed to write out electric utility bills by hand.
Jobs have been moving out of the country for decades. Take a look around - things are going pretty good for the country.
Yes - It blows to unexpectedly lose your job. But, if you talk to anyone who had a high paying, low skill job a few years after being fired, many of them feel lucky to have lost their job. The high wage was keeping them from looking for rewarding work, while losing their job made them soul search and they ended up better off and happier.
So much of our manufacturing is gone...just gone, textiles, electronics, etc. When companies go out of the country we have NO hope of giving those jobs to Americans.
It is definately exporting that is the biggest problem.
Lack of oil, a contracting economy.
When things cant get done in the country because there is not enough energy you need to make them overseas and then import them. In the resulting economic contraction companies are not capable of paying high wages and must resort to slavery. Covert slavery, thats it.
American consumers depend on slaves, both inside the country in the form of underpaid mexicans or abroad in the form of chinamen.
I'm not saying your country "needs" slavery in principle, but has to unless a new energy source gets discovered and implemented.
Neither. The biggest threats to the semi-skilled workforce are low interest rates (who wants to hire ten workers if you can hire one worker and lease a machine that will do twenty workers' worth or work at the same cost?) and high land values (who wants to build factories on expensive land when cheaper land is available elsewhere?)
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