"Why do you think corporations are sending jobs overseas? Lower costs? Larger margins? Cheaper labor? Less taxes? Less regulations? Unions?"
This series of questions was asked by someone commenting on an article about jobs a few weeks back. The person posing the questions seemed to be hostile: He wanted to make sure that people who were complaining about the lack of jobs understood that the problem was all of those regulations, nasty unions, the insistence of the American labor force on fair wages and working conditions. (Just a touch of sarcasm there.)
I didn't reply to that particular post, but I did copy these questions and thought about them, as these kinds of questions are typical in discussions about the current jobs crisis.
I didn't reply to that particular post, but I did copy these questions and thought about them, as these kinds of questions are typical in discussions about the current jobs crisis.
Do we want to become a Third World country?
After consideration, here's my reply to the series of questions in the first paragraph:
