Re:Why 3.5M Americans in their prime years aren’t working
by jacquesm on Saturday February 24, 2018 @03:54PM
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American companies have actively moved their manufacturing to other countries to save on labor, nobody forced them.
This resulted in lower prices but was a net negative for the American job market.
America was totally free to engage in free trade by exporting their local products abroad, and by accepting foreign products to be sold in their own market without gutting their production capacity.
I think you're mincing words and avoiding the main argument. Wether or not the US government is "pushing" or "allowing" doesn't alter the affect on the US manufacturing sector and jobs overall. I suspect from a corporations' point of view, they are "pushing" it, from labor's point of view, they are "allowing" it. Both political parties embrace it and as it is today, it benefits corporations immensely at the expense of the US manufacturing sector.