Bob_Skurka
Super Member
- Joined
- Jul 1, 2003
- Messages
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Why would we want a 49% limit on foreign ownership of anything in a free society?
Foreign investments help to create more stable trade between countries allowing us to not only import but to export.
Foreign investments help to stabilize the American Dollar.
Foreign investments help to create jobs in America. . . how many manufacturing jobs have American companies shipped overseas (ask the guy driving the John Deere CUT) . . . and how many people here are employed by Honda, Toyata, Mitsubishi or Subaru assembling their cars in America instead of just importing them from Japan already built.
Our biggest problem with why we export jobs is our labor costs combined with our government interfearing with businesses. And then there is the fact that we are not willing, as consumers to pay extra for quality so we support stores like Wal Mart that sell about 80% foreign made goods but wave a big American Flag around so we feel good when we buy clothes made in sweat shops in Asia or we get that foreign made nut or bolt for .005 cents cheaper than we can get the American made one. And our unions here are a big reason we export so many jobs because they prevent imegrants from working for minimum wage in sewing shops in America or assembly plants for minimum wage so we'd at least have some entry level jobs here instead of shipping them overseas. And the governement, mostly the Democrats but often the Republicans, works with the unions to raise the wages, or impose regulations that drive more and more jobs overseas until the only jobs left here will be upper management jobs and service jobs that require you to say "and do you want fries with that. . . ?"
OK I jumped on a soapbox, but the country was built on foreign labor, with foreign imigrants, with foreign investments and we all became Americans after we got here, or after our parents or grandparents got here from somewhere else. And we prospered because we are an open society. But the unions are taking over the governement jobs (the only growth unions have is unionizing municiple workers) and the do-gooders in government keep handing out benefits that impale small businesses so that it is harder for little guys to make a profit. And then we ***** about foreign investors when in fact they come here and fix some of our broken companies!
Foreign investments help to create more stable trade between countries allowing us to not only import but to export.
Foreign investments help to stabilize the American Dollar.
Foreign investments help to create jobs in America. . . how many manufacturing jobs have American companies shipped overseas (ask the guy driving the John Deere CUT) . . . and how many people here are employed by Honda, Toyata, Mitsubishi or Subaru assembling their cars in America instead of just importing them from Japan already built.
Our biggest problem with why we export jobs is our labor costs combined with our government interfearing with businesses. And then there is the fact that we are not willing, as consumers to pay extra for quality so we support stores like Wal Mart that sell about 80% foreign made goods but wave a big American Flag around so we feel good when we buy clothes made in sweat shops in Asia or we get that foreign made nut or bolt for .005 cents cheaper than we can get the American made one. And our unions here are a big reason we export so many jobs because they prevent imegrants from working for minimum wage in sewing shops in America or assembly plants for minimum wage so we'd at least have some entry level jobs here instead of shipping them overseas. And the governement, mostly the Democrats but often the Republicans, works with the unions to raise the wages, or impose regulations that drive more and more jobs overseas until the only jobs left here will be upper management jobs and service jobs that require you to say "and do you want fries with that. . . ?"
OK I jumped on a soapbox, but the country was built on foreign labor, with foreign imigrants, with foreign investments and we all became Americans after we got here, or after our parents or grandparents got here from somewhere else. And we prospered because we are an open society. But the unions are taking over the governement jobs (the only growth unions have is unionizing municiple workers) and the do-gooders in government keep handing out benefits that impale small businesses so that it is harder for little guys to make a profit. And then we ***** about foreign investors when in fact they come here and fix some of our broken companies!
