Common Sense in Government

I made a comment in the forums today in which I identified myself as “A Lower Class American”. Six months ago, before I was unreasonably terminated from my job, I was “A Working Lower Class American”.

The only differences I can see between these two titles is that six months ago I was collecting a mediocre paycheck for doing an honest days work and now I am not. Now instead of barely able to keep up with the over inflated cost of living in the United States

I am not able to keep up at all.

Would I rather be working? Absolutely!

The trouble is there are so many problems with the value system in America that the average working class in America is being left out in the cold!

CNN new compiled a list of companies, who in there words are "Exporting America." This is a list of U.S. companies, which CNN has verified are either sending American jobs overseas, or choosing to employ cheap overseas labor, instead of American workers. http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/popups/exporting.america/content.html

Out sourcing creates jobs in America. Yes it absolutely does, but it does not create jobs for middle and lower class Americans. These jobs are being taken from us at an alarming rate. The practice of outsourcing is not new. It has been going on for years but it is only just recently that major companies have started shipping all of their general labor and production jobs overseas. Hershey, Pfaltzgraff, and Tyco Electronics, are a few major players in my area who made CNN’s list of notables.

It seems to me that if this problem is allowed to continue unchecked the “Executives” managing the outsourcing projects will be the only ones working and unless I have been seriously mislead for many years, Americans need American Dollars to buy American Products.

Another thing I found very interesting while doing a brief Internet search of outsourcing is that when you type in ‘outsourcing American jobs” into the “Bing” search engine it returns 2,870,000 results of which the top 20 are all sites that have found outsourcing to be a bad idea. The top 20 of “Google’s” 962,000 results are much the same as “Bings.”

I do understand that while we little people are concerned about staying afloat, these companies need to find away to stay competitive in the world market and for that reason the big companies feel justified in outsourcing to lower waged workers.

So major companies are responding to the American workers whose demands for ever increasing wages are forcing them to seek less expensive alternatives. While American workers are responding to the ever-increasing cost of living being driven up-words by American companies desire to produce greater profits. 

            I do not claim to be anything other than a reasonably intelligent hard working American but it seems simple to me

Stop the outsourcing – our government is always so interested controlling and mandating, why don’t they put that talent to work where it might help.  If major companies are penalized for outsourcing unless and until the American unemployment rate is less than 1% the problem would end in a hurry.

Buy American – American workers who have earned American dollars working in American companies should spend their money buying American products. The unfortunate part of this is that right now there are very few products that can boast that they are 100% American made. There are some natural resources that are just not available in our country but import should be limited to un-processed raw materials.

This would create more jobs for Americans

Price Control - Controlling the cost of products on the basis of cost to produce would prevent companies from increasing their cost to American workers. In turn preventing American workers from demanding higher wages and eliminating the need for American companies to seek alternatives like outsourcing.

 I do not know but it seems to me that our Government has tried applying everything but logic and common sense to this problem without success so what could it hurt to try