What Do Republicans Think About Free Trade Agreements And Outsourcing Of Jobs?
Posted by China Sourcing CommentatorOct 10
Do they for example feel about it like John McCAin does?
Do you agree with John McCain and why?
As a solution to our economic problems, would you do what John McCain would do? which is to find some more poor countries to have trade agreements with and continue the race to the bottom (bottom being the cheapest labor pool possible to manufacture goods to sell back in the USA).
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/mccain_trade.cfm
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True conservatives, not Republicans, do not want free trade agreements and never did. Actually the idea of free trade agreements and non protectionism is a liberal creation and violates the intent of our Forefathers who wanted the US to trade freely out to other countries but to have strict barriers of tariffs in place when other countries wanted their products here. Please read some of the treaties by our forefathers is anyone has questions to the contrary.
There is no way Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and guys like Pat Buchanan thought free trade ever benefited the US. The new set of liberal Republicans such as Bush and Bush senior and liberals such as Clinton wanted to change the way our forefathers envisioned trade.
Once Reagan got out of office, and he opposed free trade vigorously, along came Bush senior, a noted internationalist liberal and shoved NAFTA and GATT down our throats without any debate. Conservatives all warned him not to do it but he did anyhow. Then came Bill Clinton and the WTO and conservatives warned against the WTO and he shoved it down our throats anyway. Well……..years later………….look where free trade agreements got us in the US?……………….We made other countries flush with US expatriated dollars and we lost jobs and the standard of living went down here in the USA and our greatest enemy China as soared to new economic levels and is poised to purchase our own US big three auto makers and they are laughing at us as they hold trillion of dollars of US Treasuries simply because of agreements such as the WTO and GATT.
It’s as plain as common sense, if there is someone who is going to do the same work for cheaper, then the customer is going to go with the same work for cheaper.
If you were going to get your house painted, and you got bids from three companies, are you at fault for picking the lowest bidder? Would it matter that the most expensive guy also happens to live in the same neighborhood? Whose fault is it that his price was too high? Is it your problem that you are not representing your neighborhood by going with the cheaper guy?
It’s the same thing with companies. If laborers in Africa, Mexico, or India are willing to do the same work for cheaper, then it’s not the company’s fault that they are going with the lowest bidder, anymore than it is your fault for going with the lowest bidder to get your house painted.
Either we redress our values and commit to a willingness for lower wages in order to stay competitive, or we accept the fact that we are primarily a service based economy (which we already are).
Service sector jobs are not so bad. A doctor is a service sector job. A lawyer is a service sector job. An artist is a service sector job. What do children want to be when they grow up; a doctor, lawyer, or artist? or to work on an assembly line? The reason that service sector jobs constitute such a significant percentage of our economy is because service sector jobs are just that much more preferable.
This Republican thinks we should shed the Democrat imposed restrictions that prevent us from being competitive in the world.
I also think we should abandon the Democrat ideology of demonizing the corporations and investors who employ us, and stop driving them away to nations where their investment and jobs are welcome
Outsourcing means cheap foreign labor, the inferior quality that comes from foreign labor, and a reduction of jobs for Americans.
Hey, what’s not to like, right Libs?