Outsourcing America’s Future
OPS_admin | Apr 12, 2010 | Comments 0
Outsourcing is not a new phenomenon. Companies have scoured the globe for cheap labor unions for decades, manufacturing cars in Mexico and shirts in Malaysia. Yet the practice has never threatened U.S. sovereignty to the degree it is today. Outsourcing has ballooned in recent decades, leaving the United States uncompetitive, its citizens jobless and its future bleak.
The way our markets are structured, it is almost impossible for any business to resist the trend of cutting American industrial jobs and shipping the work overseas. Although American corporations have laid-off millions of American workers in recent years as part of their outsourcing policies, they are not to blame. The real blame lies with the corrupt politicians and foreign trade lobbyists who push their ideals onto the American people through debilitating “free trade” deals.
The North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization make it impossible for the U.S. to place taxes or tariffs on outsourced work. U.S. businesses search the Earth to find areas where workers are underrepresented and lax environmental rules reign supreme. Since America’s competitors engage in outsourcing, it is completely unavoidable for American corporations if they want to remain in business. Individual American corporations must do what they can to survive. Once their competitors start moving jobs overseas, they have no choice but to follow suit. Today even high paying jobs are being outsourced to India including doctors, mathematicians, accountants, financial analysts engineers, biologists, architects, physicists, chemists and programmers.
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