Lost Jobs

[Walks_in_islam]

They probably are not coming back no matter who you vote for.

Put in simple terms:

They are jobs making things and products. Manufacturing things that people want to or will buy. Due to regulation, tax code, and spiraling healthcare costs, those things cost less to make in other places. Businesses work on a difference between costs and value of their product. SO: For constant value businesses produce products at lowest cost possible.

So businesses are making products elsewhere. The people who have the jobs making them are not working in the US.

If you could make a product in China for a few dollars a day with little to no paperwork to keep up with or navigate your business through the staggering amount of financial, personnel, and healthcare related regulations in the US what would you (or any sane person) do?

Even I remember when everything in the household was made in the US or you could find a brand made in the US and the quality was second to none. How many of the things you buy are made there now?

Once these companies move and spend capital to set up, they don't come back. Our best export at this time? We will soon join Mexico and Nepal and Bangledesh and other countries where our people go to work somewhere else and send the money back home OR we will just tax foreign products and create an idle welfare working class.......

Originally Posted by Sam

Well, in a few weeks we'll have another election so we're being inundated with political ads and political talk. A lot is being said about "lost jobs." What are these jobs that have been "lost"? and are they coming back if we vote in the correct candidate?