21st Mar 2011, 12:18
Canada has a totally separate economy. If U.S. companies are outsourcing jobs to Canada, then they might was well be sending the jobs to China as far as the advantages to the economy here are concerned. The only thing that matters as far as the U.S. and our unemployment figures is U.S. based jobs. Domestic companies have been sending many of these jobs to other countries, therefore taking them away from U.S. citizens. The argument has been that the domestic car companies wouldn't survive without these cost cutting measures of outsourcing, and therefore are saving millions of jobs by outsourcing so they can survive.
My point is that these companies should find a way to keep every last job in the U.S., or maybe they shouldn't survive anyway. I don't like the whole "ends justifies the means" argument that domestic supporters are riding on here. Sorry, if they can't compete in a fair marketplace with imports while keeping a work force that is 100% U.S. based, then they deserve to fail. I won't support incompetence just because. It is not going to help our long term goals for the future of the U.S. It is a temporary fix that will eventually fail, as the jobs are outsourced more and more over the years coming.
That is the point I have tried to make about the flaw in this argument of domestics vs. imports.
21st Mar 2011, 07:30
You are getting confused. We are talking about the American auto industry and NOT the North American auto industry. How is making cars in Canada, Mexico and Germany helping save U.S. auto worker jobs??? People truly only believe what they want to believe.