alot of things go into the cause but the plain and simple fact is businesses send jobs/manufacturing overseas b/c its cheaper. Do the taxes and regs imposed on them by our govt increase the costs here? absolutely...do the lack of regulations and taxes overseas contribute to that? absolutely.
The US govt doesnt seem concerned at all with making our businesses more competetive globally.
I don't disagree with any of that in principle. But do you honestly believe that in the absence of taxes and regulation, companies would be making jeans here when they can continue making them for eighty or ninety cents a pair in, say, Bangladesh where a worker is paid just over a dollar a day?
(Reference) And there are cheaper places still... Bangladesh isn't the cheapest source of labor.
No. The simple fact is that while can and
should do more to make the United States attractive to businesses, the kind of businesses we should be focused on attracting are in the fields of engineering, computers, biotechechnology, aerospace, etc. -in other words, everything that falls under the "high-tech" moniker. And in those jobs, we are still at the forefront, even if our lead has been cut back substantially.
Will we always have a need for unskilled labor? Yes, someone will always need to shuffle food around on a tray, or stock up the shelves at Walmart or what have you, but those jobs are just a necessary evil if you will; not the kind we want to attract back to the United States.
