How many Americans (and Canadians) will allow their neighbours and friends to be thrown out of work simply because the discount stores will sell a similar but cheaper and less reliable product... It is most unfair that you blame the importers if you are also unwilling to pay a slightly higher price for goods that are locally made, and co- incidently of better quality. I frequently have to shudder, and grit my teeth when I hear of the bargains that come from south of the St. Lawrence river. And laugh out loud; I bought a coffee maker during a trip to Watertown NY, It was clearly made for the Canadian market... (markings in English and French) but imported to Canada from China....
On May 31, 9:48 am, Bruce Majors <[email protected]> wrote: > How many American jobs exists only because the companies offering them are > sustainable ONLY because they are able to import some factor inputs > (Canadian lumber, Mexican oil, Indian software, etc) from low costs sources > abroad? > > You won't be able to figure out the answer. > > No government agency or other entity collects data on this question > > > > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:41 AM, D S <dh...@m> wrote: > > > You claim that outsourcing is no good for America. We often hear how it > > is lamentable that the huge textile industries that used to exist, are now > > mostly offshore, which has resulted in the loss of ten of thousands of jobs > > for the women who worked in those textile mills. > > > For those of you out there who take that line, I'd like to ask that if that > > positon were reversed, whose women would you want to return to the textile > > mills to make our underwear for us? > > > Do you mean your own women, or somebody else's? > > > I surveyed my own women and those of my drinking buddies. They report that > > there women prefer to be things like; molecular biologists, dentists, > > doctors, bio-chemists, nuclear engineers, college profs. > > > col. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
