We can't get those products back here easily. Worse the workers cannot be counted on to support us in wartime. The multinational corporations put profit before any of the nations they own property in, and have no interest in helping us either. Worse still, most of the work has been contracted out to foreign companies in nations that are not our allies. We couldn't defend those plants or get their products home even if we could count on them still operating in wartime. Gosh I hope the Republicans run on this platform.
They are already employing workers and factories overseas at a better cost. So you want them to shut that shit down?
A good defense is a better offense. That's why we spend what we do on the military and can deploy at a moments notice. We are already ready.
We can deploy because of superior logistics. But we can't out-log anybody without a dependable industrial base. Neither can we maintain a logistics operation to hundreds of foreign factorys and still be able to globally deploy a military force of any significant size.
Says you. We can cripple anyone with a moments notice. It is not in the mordern age design to fight huge world ground wars like WWII. We control the sky's bye a huge margin and with that the ability to cripple anything.
Well, just like you spun off numbers with no facts to back it up I did the same. You went off your general presumption of what you think as did I. However I also followed up with data that supported my claims. The literal comment was towards: “This is a prime example of helping a few, lost plant workers....."
Instead of asking me how I got my numbers, you just came up with your own. You and Red like to pull this “burden of proof card” but you offered none to challenge me other than your own, un checked, numbers.. You know, you often cry about personal attacks. Why get on my level?
There is a sound economic reason why certain jobs go overseas. Just because the AMERICAN worker cannot find a way other than handouts to get past this, you want to ruin the free world market and dictate what American companies can and cannot do. Besides, you and Red seem to be perfectly happy with Obama’s record. 8% unemployment is a good thing right? Re-elect him and just maybe we might see 7%..
My point NC, is that while you want to attack the American company for sending jobs overseas, you have seemed to fail to realize that a number of these companies are making 30, 40, and even 50 percent of their revenues OVERSEAS.. Yet, you just look at their profits and make this horrible claim that these are AMERICAN jobs. There is no claim on these jobs. It is the sole choice of who, what, when, and where these companies do business with. You foolishly assume all American companies with factories or whatever overseas sole purpose is to make goods only for the US. That is false.
You still do not get it that I am not proposing that factories only make goods to be sold here in the US. I am beginning to think you will never understand and that I am just wasting my time trying to help you along. Why are you against jobs in America for Americans? You are willing to trade in your patriotism and national pride for a few extra points in profits for people who do not need them? I understand, probably much better than you, how and why corporations move their assets and/or factories overseas. My understanding of the issue is not the issue. The issue is whether or not it is right to continue giving massive tax breaks to the "job creators" just so the "job creators" can send the jobs that they create overseas. Get my drift? Republicans keep screaming that we can't raise taxes on the rich because they are the "job creators." Now you have all but solidified my argument that the rich are not using their tax breaks to create more jobs here; they are pocketing the tax breaks and sending their assets and/or factories overseas to make extra profit. Why in the hell would you continue to subsidize someone for sending jobs overseas? Talk about welfare.....that's nothing more than welfare for the rich my man. So tell us why it is sound fiscal policy to subsidize the rich so they can send jobs overseas again?
