Posts by harryg123 5 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2012
"The Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly shown it will freely break any law or norm to achieve a perceived intelligence advantage," As does the NSA, CIA, and FBI in the USA, or the British MI6 or whatever it's called these days?
Any government, anywhere, at any time, will break any law, treaty, covenant, promise, or moral stricture in the name of "national security."
QUOTE: Imagine if AT&T, Motorola, Wal-Mart, Sony, Philips, Deutsche Telekom in Germany and Telstra in Australia demanded improvement, this could make a world of difference for VTech’s exploited workers.
Far better: Imagine if ATT moved their factories back to Lansing, Michigan, Waco Texas, or other Stateside locations. Same for Walmart: Benton, ARK. Deutsche Telekom to some place in the former German DDR. Etc.
What a boon to the local economies.
The boards of directors of these global companies think with their bottom (line) instead of thinking about the people in their own countries. USA has over 10% unemployment, is bankrupt, and the Dollar is worthless. All because greed-driven companies have shifted their manufacturing to China.
Hell, they could even diversify their mfg operations to Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc. As well as their home countries.
American, I am told, has turned from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. Translation: we're all going to get rich by counting each other's money.
I would start with the Boards of Directors who have destroyed the economies of the developed nations by shifting manufacturing (jobs, income, standard of living) overseas.
Reason they did that is because it's cheaper to build widgets when your factory doesn't have to pay minimum wage, comply with environmental laws, etc.
Protective tariis would be an incentive for people to purchase local products. If a cheap, trashy, Chinese phone costs $20, and and American phone the same, which one will the people buy? American, of course. If the If the cheap low quality Chinese item costs $10 and the American one $20, which one will they buy? Chinese of course. Out of a job, on welfare, flipping hamburgers, I can't afford anything else.
Tariffs drive up prices? Bad for business?? Perhaps. On the other hand, 20% of American families have an income that is less than the official US Government "poverty line". All because manufacturing (jobs) have been shifted overseas.
It’s nice that at least some big firms are concerned about their workers, even underpaid one in the (former) worker’s paradise. I just wish that Apple and others would worry more about domestic workers instead of foreign ones.
USA has more people on the dole and out of work now than ever before in her history. California is bankrupt, and as Calif. goes, so goes the rest of the country, if history repeats. Major reason is unemployment.
I think it would be good if big business such as Apple would import some jobs back into the USA.
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