You bringing another, unrelated issue into the argument. American businesses outsourcing labor. That's caused by the cost of labor and production in the US compared to other countries. Totally different issue. One which I believe needs to be fixed as well, however. American companies outsourcing labor and manufacturing is for the exact same reason that foreign auto manufacturers build vehicles here. Cause it's CHEAPER to make cars where they're sold rather than in their country of origin and have them shipped half way around the world. Just like how American companies outsource labor to countries in which they can operate CHEAPER and are still able to ship at a low cost.
Actually, it's totally related. You want the money coming here. They want to ship the jobs elsewhere while collecting loans and subsidies from the gov't. The big money might be going into the hands of
an American, but it's going into the hands of
America. I'm sure that when unemployment hit 13-19%, people were more interested in having a job than in the warm fuzzy idea that someone, somewhere in America was making a lot of money (which was probably being sent to Swiss banks to dodge as much of their tax liability as possible). From 2006-mid 2008, GM laid off over 38,000 hourly employees. Toyota, reeling from the same slowdown, laid off ) American workers during the same time. They halted 3 factories for a few months, but the workers reported in for work everyday and were given extensive training to make them even more productive when manufacturing reopened, some built houses for Habitat for Humanity, some were temporarily sent to other plants. Who would you rather work for? I'm a GM man myself, but I sure wouldn't mind working for an employer with Toyota's mindset. As far as the money goes, I'm fairly certain that Toyota North America, Honda North America, etc do have to pay taxes here. Not to mention that their cars are selling better than the domestics so the dealers are doing good business, pumping lots of money into local, state,
and federal.
As far as building where they're sold, explain why GM was importing the Aveo from Korea? They bought/control Daewoo, paid for them to design and develop the car, then paid them to retool the factories to build it, and then turned around and paid shipping and any tariffs to get them from Korea to here, for minimal profit. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to design and build it here since the costs of getting it here would eat into its already razor thin profits?
And I couldn't care less (not literally) about how many workers the foreign companies employ, they're still taking the big bucks and keeping it, investing it in their own, FOREIGN, company, or investing it in their own, FOREIGN, country. Even if domestic manufacturers do outsource labor, their profits are still going to an American company - which has numerous benefits to the US and it's economy. You obviously don't understand the concept of economics - and if you don't get it by now, you're not going to.
Again, I'd rather Americans be employed and getting paid than worry about the guys at the top and where they live. Explain to me why it's better that the company be here in America vs the jobs being here in America. I really would like to see your logic. So far you've only argued with broad vague thoughts (The money should be here!), contradictions (I don't care about the number of jobs here, we need the money so we can make jobs here!), and condescension (Dumbest thing I've heard, you don't understand economics, etc). You've avoided facts that could prove you wrong, ignored info you didn't have a poorly worded response for, and never provided any back up for why your side is right.
So please, enlighten me.
