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spiritguide
18th October 2012, 10:27
The title of the thread is the title for an article from the global research site. The article is lengthly but worth the read if you want to know really what we allowed our past government,media and economic institutions sell us.

Here is a lead in for the article....

The cause of all of the problems is the offshoring of Americans’ jobs. When jobs are moved offshore, consumers’ careers and incomes, and the GDP and payroll and income tax base associated with those jobs, go with them. When the goods and services produced for American markets by offshored labor are brought into the US to be sold, the trade deficit rises, and downward pressure is put on the dollar, pushing up domestic inflation. (On October 12, statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reported that “third-quarter wholesale inflation jumped to an annualized 6.2%.”)
Jobs offshoring is driven by Wall Street, “shareholder advocates,” the threat of takeovers, and by large retailers, such as Walmart. By cutting labor costs, profits go up.
It is that simple. However, as a result of sending American jobs to cheap labor countries, US consumer incomes go down. The end result is to destroy the domestic consumer market. What would have been US consumer income growth becomes instead profit growth for US corporations

Here is the link......

http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-r-i-p-death-of-the-middle-class-offshoring-of-american-jobs/5308637

Again a lengthly read but worth it if you want a clear picture of the corporation's rip off of the treasures of America.

:peace:

AuCo
18th October 2012, 18:03
Well, is there such word as on-shoring as opposed to off-shoring? Jobs are gone to the Chinese right HERE in the US of A too.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/us-bridges-roads-built-chinese-firms-14594513?tab=9482930?ion=1206853&playlist=14594944

spiritguide
19th October 2012, 12:20
What to do? On an individual basis commit to buying only items made in the U.S.A. by American corporations based here. This is one way we the people insure our security here where it counts for our children and future generations. Even better support local producers of usable items and reinvest locally. We must resist the programmed greed and show the "to big to fail" programmers that without customers they will fail and our energies and tax dollars will not help them ever again. Personal and social responsibility is what is called for in correcting the neglect of the past. IMHO

Invest in American owned companies with an equitable employee profit sharing plan where everybody wins, including the customers. A product delivered by happy people has a quality that makes customers happy.

Lost Soul
22nd October 2012, 04:48
What to do? Get rid of free fade and repatriate the jobs. Buy locally and not from corporate giants like Wally Welt.

bbj3n546pt
19th March 2013, 22:25
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This information is provided for what it is worth. I personally would not agree with many of these selections.

Link:
http://www.glassdoor.com/50-Highest-Rated-CEOs.htm?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=bceo-13&utm_content=bceo-13