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Yes, it is un-"North" American not to bring our jobs home! It has proved to be distructive to this country with the exception of the the "undying" citizen, corporations.
Idle hands are the Devil's playground; idle minds are the Devil's playground. There's nothing to do here anymore but win the lottery or figure out some way to gain celebrity. Though on Craigslist, women may now sell their eggs starting at $8,000. There are also many openings for young girls willing to work as naked housekeepers or half-nude personal assistants.
We used to have diverse working communities, the highest-quality manufactured products, the safest-produced food, the best quality of life in the world, the highest morals, or so they said.
That's why we had to be tricked out of our greatness, so it is no longer ours, but gone over to the Old World Oppressor from which emigrating freedom seekers sought to escape originally. Wake, oh wake- we're headed for Hell in a Jardines Fleming Walker handbag before long.
I had a frightening thought today. It was that the Chinese are going to become wealthy from us all buying the products of their factories and then all the desperate-from-being-unemployed American workers would end up in labor camps making cheap products for the Chinese middle class.
Henry Ford understood that if the American worker wasn't paid enough, there would be no market for his product. Now with the "New World Order," who cares about the American worker? There are plenty of other chumps in the world.
Unfortunately, this brings to my mind the myriad of push polls I have received from the Repugnican Party. Of course, I believe our jobs should be brought back to this country. However, I also believe American workers can compete with any other laborers, no matter where they are. Cheap foreign "goods" do not approach the quality of fine products crafted by the most sedulous working men and women on this planet - Americans.
I disagree with the person that says Americans have too much time on their hands. There is a lot to do for anyone if a person wants to. The world is full of needs, but are we interested in anyone other than ourselves? I work up to 100 hours a week, I'm a good parent, and I also do victim counseling. The reason why Americans have a lot of time on their hands is because they are generally lazy, and I say that as a liberal and as a busy businessman and capitalist.
I am an American, live in America and own a company here. In the last two years I have interviewed 20 Americans and 20 foreigners for positions. I can honestly say that all of the Americans had lower work ethics (including the two I hired and fired) than most of the foreigners, the Americans had bad attitudes, they tended to want to preach Jesus or their philosophy in the workplace, and their skills were far less than that of foreigners, and the expectations of American employees are very high, American workers have a "sense of entitlement" that is not fair to the employer, and the worst thing of all is that I cannot instruct an American and be firm about it, or be firm in my directions - Americans get easily offended because Americans have been spoiled and have forgotten what "work ethic" and "chain of authority" mean in a business, whereas foreigners say "yes sir" and then do their job.
I spend most of my profits in my local American community, so what is the problem? I pay my taxes and I support Obama, so really, this kind of poll shows that Americans are generally clueless about how a business works and the meaning of "profit", as well as how to solve America's problems. I definitely know that Republicans are clueless, but when I see that progressives are also clueless then it does discourage me about the future of our country.
The best advice I can give is to stop complaining and get more education. I work 100 hours a week sometimes, and my $2 an hour employees overseas are happy to work for me, they have master's degrees, and they say "yes sir" which is something that I cannot seem to find among Americans.
Hiring foreign workers is good for making a profit and ultimately that productivity comes back to benefit all Americans when our businesses do well.
Jobs should be brought back to America. Regulations should be put in place to make it rewarding for companies to do so and penalize them for jobs held and created elsewhere. There are plenty of enthusiastic, intelligent and respectful Americans wanting a job at a living wage right now. What are these people supposed to do without corporate employment, waive a magic wand and poof-a-job? Government is here for a real reason, to govern and protect the nation through the voice of the people, not just a couple of people, but all the people. The problems is that the voice of large number of people is being ignored. The voice of reason is being shushed. Deception is spewed in the news headlines. We need government to work for "we the people" again and the only solution I see it is to converse with others and vote in 2012.