AMERICAN JOBS GOING OVERSEAS EDITORIAL
It has been said that the person that complains the most about something is the person that has the least to complain about. Almost every day someone is blaming President Bush for sending jobs abroad. I think more of the blame should be placed on the specific individuals that are the true problem. "YOU" are the problem, take a look at all the labels that you have purchased in the last year. How many of those items were Made In America? How many items did you, yourself put back on the shelf and show your Personal Support of American Workers because they were "NOT" Made In America, in the past year?
Everybody blames the President because he is fair game. He can not defend himself against your comments because you are hiding, anonymously.
The specific reason why the big box stores of this country go overseas to have products made, is your American dollar. They have millions of share holders to feed with your dollars and they want as many excess dollars as they can get. "Store 1" can entice you into their specific store by saying "We Have The Lowest Prices." "Store 2" will go out and find laborers to work for even less. "Store 2" can now say, "We Have The Lowest Prices." The stores fight each other, offering lower prices. Where do you think the low prices come from? They come from lower wages paid to "WORKERS," do management and share holders take a cut in pay equal to the workers?
The huge big box stores can go to a manufacture and say we want lower prices because of the huge orders we place with you or we will go to another supplier. The manufacture has a choice, lower his price or lay off the workers making that order.
Do you have any idea what would happen to the big box department stores if you said, I will only buy American Made when I spend my American Dollars. They would have a fire sale trying to unload Foreign Goods with no customers to sell it to. There would be manufacturing plants popping up all over the United States. Unemployment would drop down, almost to "Zero." I know, you are going to say I cannot afford it. Let my neighbor buy American. That sounds good, but he is saying the same about you.
I do not know when it will happen, but I feel that our economy is like a 3 legged stool with one leg being manufacturing. If you take that one leg of manufacturing away, the stool will not stand up. The other 2 legs will also fall.
Our country is like your savings account, how long will you have money in your savings if you keep taking out more money than you are putting back in. How long can the drain of our American Dollars going to other Countries continue. You can see what "YOUR" lack of support for American workers has done to our American Manufacturing sector.
Each day, you have the ability to show your Loyalty and bring jobs back to America by the way you spend your dollars. Can one or a thousand people make the change, NO, it takes every single Citizen. END.