If corporations keep exporting jobs one day there won't be anyone here to buy their products

[DainBramaged]

no matter how cheap those products are, except tourists and the robber barons who put us in this mess.


Jobs here, jobs now, no more job exporting.


Have a nice day.

[flyarm]

1. is there anyone left now????????? heck all the shops near me have for rent signs in the windows! n/t

[Skink]

2. It won't matter when china and other countries become bigger consumers than the west.

in fact I hope when that occurs the U.S. starts to buy home grown products. Maybe even return to farming as a way of life.

[Juche]

8. That doesn't sound to appealing

Everyone in the US having to grow their own food just to survive while China lives high on the hog and develops a world class economy?

But yeah, China and India are becoming the consumers. The US isn't part of the loop as much anymore, things don't need to be produced or sold here anymore.

Hopefully US production can meet demand overseas. But who knows.

[Warpy]

3. They always think somebody else will hire their ex workers

and absolutely never think that those ex workers will end up with a patchwork of dead end, low wage jobs that barely pay subsistence with no benefits and that those ex workers will buy nothing but food, beat up cars that barely run, gas to get to work, and second hand everything else.

They are incapable of seeing the bigger picture, which is one reason they get paid the big bucks to fatten top management at the expense of the company, the employees, and the country.

Come the revolution, the rover boy executives who offshored all the jobs should be first against the wall. The lawyers can wait.

[Fumesucker]

11. I don't think it ever enters their minds at all what fired workers are going to do..

They simply don't give a fuck..

[area51]

14. +1

I think they have hatred for anyone less rich than them.

[laughingliberal]

4. Precisely how oligarch favoring capitalism eats itself in the end. nt

[The2ndWheel]

5. How many people exist on the planet?

Americans, and really people in general, aren't needed as much as we used to be.

[Kber]

6. There is a story about Henry Ford showing the head of his union through a 100% automated plant

He says to his Union guy and says "So, you think you can organize these workers?"

The union guy turns to Ford and says "I don't know Henry. Do you think you can get them to buy cars?"

True then. True today.

[T Wolf]

7. That is of no concern to them. Long-term, or even mdeium-term planning is so

last century.

ONLY this quarter's profits are important (for bonuses, dontcha know?).

[gratuitous]

9. When that happens, the Wall Street Journal will tell us it's our own fault

Why aren't you all selling yourselves into slavery to buy something? And if you think I'm kidding, check out this execrable piece from last week (link to non-WSJ source, just to deprive them of a hit):

http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/workplace_issues/cut_everyones_pay_by_10_to_solve_unemployment_170839.asp

[Cleita]

10. I was thinking the same thing yesterday when I

went to K-Mart to pick up some batteries and light bulbs. There were only two cashiers and hardly anyone in the store and it was a Sunday.

[OhioChick]

12. ....

[applegrove]

13. But there will be a growing middle class overseas. That is who the transnationals want to sell to.

The West is filled with mature economies that cannot get much more productive unless there is deregulation, union busting, lower taxes. The rest of the world, especially the BRIC countries growth will be about 10% or higher. So that is who the transnationals want to sell to. The rich and their stocks have disengaged from the middle class in the USA. They are not relying on the middle class in the USA. Fine. But don't expect tax cuts boys!!!

[Zephie]

15. I watched an episode of the Twilight Zone the other night that was so eerily relevant

It was called The Brain Center at Whipple's, and it was about the workers being replaced with robots, not shipping the jobs over seas, but the executive in the episode laughed and laughed about all the money he was saving and how efficent it all was... Until HIS overlords found a robot to do his job. It ends with the now ex-executive mirroring his laid off workers cries of "A man has worth", which he had previously ignored and even mocked the idea of to the faces of his employees as he fired them. If you ever get the chance to see it, do.

[Jamastiene]

16. They are already several steps ahead of you. They already know that.

They don't care.

Here is why:
They can play the people of one country off the people of another country, keep us fighting with each other and resenting each other over sparse jobs, while they use everyone in every country in the world to make their money.

Their view of what you just said: So what? People in other countries can and will pay for products and buy products. Americans might not have the money now, but people in other countries who have jobs, have money.

They've got this weird worldwide musical chairs game going with the money and jobs. While we look in one direction, they are several steps ahead of us, already planning on what they'll do to us next. Later down the road? Who knows? They might start rationing important items to make us pay even more for something that already costs too much now...just so they can get more and more money.

I used to always say it was impossibly to get blood from a turnip, but somehow, the bastards have figured out how to anyhow.

It is pure unadulterated greed, unchecked because of collusion with politicians all over the world who are on the take and allowing, and in too many cases, even pushing for, it to happen.

Sadly, until we discipline ourselves en masse, target the ring leaders, boycott the right way, VOTE the right way during primaries (instead of listening to the same old same old reasons, aka lies, why we shouldn't vote progressive) and refuse to play their games that are making us poorer and poorer, it will continue.