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Originally posted by: Shimraa
ho ho whats this an american complaining about other countries depressing his economy, you should read some case studies on the things america has done to some of the latin american countries in the form of cash crops and so on.Quote
The reason jobs are leaving the US is because the playing field is not level in terms of the labor market. So, instead of making things better in the cheaper paying countries, the answer always seems to be to lower the standard of living in the US.
exactly and who are responsibe for this, TNCs. your right the large majority of jobs are privete, the reason for this is TNCs moving there factories, the movement of factories lowers the employment rate, no employment, no income, lowers the standard of living. so its the TNCs that are doing it, AND its also the TNCs that are keeping the standards low in the lower paying countries.
did you know that corperations like nike will pay there workers enough money so at the end of a year the workers will make enough money to feed themselves but will make just under the amount to live. by live i mean eat, have a home. so families will stay alive but will remain in poverty.
anyway this is a far cry to what i was taking about before the idea of free trade. and the soft wood lumber things. known of the stuff on TNCs or the importing of jobs applies there cause canada isnt a poor country, we actually rank highier the the US in quality of living.
I'd be interested to know how you define quality of living (how many folks living on the border come to the US for medical care, for example?). However, you raise some interesting points. You should take into consideration that at least in the US, 1/2 the cost of the goods made/sold here are made up of taxes, mandatory health insurance, regulatory costs, etc; That's not a level playing field, and the associated cost is NOT applied by the companies...they're leveled by the government.