Re: globalism/outsourcing

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 <majors.br...@gmail.com> 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 <dhses@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.

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