Reply #15: Pissing in the wind.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Corporations have to make profits and expand or face death. They will go, or stay, where the "cost of doing business" is cheapest. If they can get a well trained, or trainable, workforce for half of what they're paying here, or elsewhere, that's where they're going to go. If they can get labor cheaper from "illegal" immigrants, they'll do that.

Hoping that Americans, or anyone else, is going to "buy American" products, when similar or supererior products are available at less cost is a fantasy. And, the corporations know it.

The West has been exploiting the rest of the world for cheap labor and resources for a couple of centuries. Now, they've turned capitalism against us. In order to survive, the corporations have to go to where the cheap labor and resources are.

As time goes on, the workers in the third world, will become more skilled and demand higher wages and better working conditions. The corporations will then move on, until they run out of places that will abide them. When wages & conditions rise enough in Guatamala, Honduras, Mexico, China, India, etc, the workers will stay put. But, it's going to be a long and bumpy ride for the rich nations.

To paraphrase Lenin, "The Capitalists will manufacture and sell us the rope with which we will hang them."