How Outsourcing Will Destroy America

[OhioChick]

Thursday, December 7, 2006

I learned a shocking truth the other day, is this a big secret or a joke, I am not sure what it is, but it is scary, and disheartening, you better sit down for this one.

EVERY THING IS MADE IN CHINA! Turn it over and discover what's on that label on the other side of your shorts.

We have, through our greed as manufactures, lost it all to the Peoples Republic of China, they make almost every thing we use here in America, automobile batteries, tires, packaging, video, audio components, cigarette lighters, electronic components, this list can go on indefinitely, this computer I am using to write this article is Chinese made, they have us right where they want us, economically.

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=4453

<snip> The owners of major corporations, through their greed for higher profits are responsible for higher unemployment, payouts of benefits to laid off workers and a social deterioration of our nation's labor force, not to mention making America dependent on a foreign manufacturer for our much-needed necessities.

[Red Zelda]

1. You are so correct

And the whole time this was happening, all we heard was how good it was.
Bullshit! It was only good for the corporate masters.
Watch "Miracle on 34th Street." In the film, the toys are made in the US by union labor.
Merry Christmas.

[DainBramaged]

2. If there was a war, we'd run out of stuff in days

And if China pulled the plug, we'd be done too. Economic hostage to them.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Oh no!

If they pulled the plug -- just imagine trying to live without candy-pooping plastic reindeer, cheap clothes that fall apart after a couple of wearings, tools and parts that break, and toaster ovens that burn everything because their temperature controls don't work. Of course, China would be drowning in this crap.

The quality of products that are sold in American stores continues to slide downhill. Corporations want to cut every possible corner to grab more profits for their top executives, even if that means farming out the manufacturing work to slave and child labor overseas.

I try to buy American, but it's getting almost impossible.

[whistle]

3. Correction to your post title, "How Outsourcing Has Destroyed America"

...the last paragraph of the article explains why:

<snip>
By the way, all the jobs that the Chinese workers now have use to belong to American workers and all those trade secrets the Chinese now have use to belong to American Manufacturers. How smart is all that America?

:wtf:

[OhioChick]

4. Good Point. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Another bit of information: China is our credit card. They are second, behind Japan, in

buying US debt. Currently, they hold about $242 billion in US securities...an increase of 105% since 2001 alone...and it's growing.

[bonito]

7. And this has been going on for a while

I remember in the late 60s repairing my ford with a cast iron front end part stamped made in China, now that was "Red" China back then.

[EVDebs]

8. We have until 2031

Please read Plan B 2.0 by Lester Brown, especially
Learning From China in part of Ch 1

http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB2/PB2ch1_ss3.htm

The world has only until 2031 before the oil runs out that enables the globalized supply chain schemes these giant retailers and manufacturerers depend upon. We're going to go back to more local economies unless something replaces oil soon (not likely).

Another drawback is our tax system that subsidizes the outsourcing of US jobs, as described in David Cay Johnston's book Perfectly Legal.

[dapper]

9. Services are also being outsourced

Tech Support, Customer Support, Call Centers...

Why do it here when you can have someone in India do it for less?


That's the way the businesses are looking at it. They are taking away our jobs to save themselves money so the rich stay rich, the middle class gets poor and the poor get poorer.

The rich and powerful will only get more powerful as they basically own the Government.

Nafta, we have-ta...my ass.


Dapper

[Anakin Skywalker]

10. It's No Joke! It's Almost Completely Accurate.

NOT everything....YET. Automobiles are still not yet made there. But almost everything else is.

[OhioChick]

12. Are you sure?

Ford to build diesel engine plant in India-source
Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:19am ET

MUMBAI, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. (F.N: Quote, Profile , Research) plans to set up a plant in India to make diesel engines, an industry source told Reuters on Tuesday, as consumers in the fast-growing market shift to the more fuel-efficient option.

The plant would have a capacity to make about 100,000 units of the 1.4-litre Duratorq engine each year, the source said.

Ford, which makes 60,000 vehicles a year at a plant near the southern city of Chennai, now buys petrol engines from a unit of Hindustan Motors Ltd. (HMTR.BO: Quote, Profile , Research) and imports diesel engines.

Asked for comment by Reuters, Ford India's head said the company was studying "various localisation opportunities."

http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-11-14T091922Z_01_BOM183060_RTRIDST_0_AUTOS-INDIA-FORD.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna



Chinese car manufacturer Brilliance to export 158,000 cars to Europe
< 2006-12-01 >

Beijing, China, 01 Dec – Chinese car manufacturer, Brilliance, one of the biggest in the country, is to sell 158,000 vehicles to Europe over the next five years, according to a statement on the company’s Internet site.

Brilliance signed a contract to deliver the cars with HSO Motors Europe, a German importer, which is the biggest export contract ever signed by a Chinese car manufacturer under its own brand.

Brilliance has a partnership agreement with Volkswagen to produce the German brand’s vehicles for the Chinese market.

China exports cars mainly to the Southeast Asian market, the Middle East, Africa and South America, but Chinese vehicles have the reputation of being cheap and of mediocre quality.

Of the total cars produced by China this year, 77 percent had defects due to the price wars that have made producers to save on the quality of parts, according to a recent study by China’s Quality Association.
http://www.macauhub.com.mo/en/news.php?ID=2463

Cars made in India and China will be here soon.....


Indian S.U.V. Maker Plans to Enter United States Market
November 17, 2006, Friday


India's leading sport utility maker plans to sell its S.U.V.'s and pickup trucks in the United States through an American distributor, bringing Indian-made vehicles to the United States for the first time. ''Half of the global sales in S.U.V.'s and pickups is in the United States and we want ...

More: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50810FB3F5A0C748DDDA80994DE404482

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Not just the jobs, but India and China will become their own consumer

base as everybody's income improves over there.

I say we get cracking and invent something new. Whaddya say?

[Vidar]

13. Sums it up nicely.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. the rich are cutting their own throats

The rich are cutting their own throats, with their greed, but it's a long slow process.

By destroying the middle class they are eliminating the people who would have money to buy their products.

Also, unemployed people have lots of time on their hands to go demonstrate and protest. No time clocks to punch.

[rman]

15. There are ways to get rich without selling product

But certainly in the end people won't stand for it.

[cap]

16. no they think they will make up for it by a global mass market

everyone buying cheap s--- stuff.

[The2ndWheel]

17. America and China don't exist

Now that basically any center of power on the globe has the same interests, borders no longer matter.