Old Guy,

Is your answer to stopping employers offshore to import the conditions facing workers in the Third World?

I shouldn't have to explain this to you, but then again you aren't acting above board. You have an agenda which has you use cute little cliche's to make your point. We often refer to folks like you as "a mile wide and a half inch deep.

Manufacturing goes offshore for a couple of reasons. The first is to escape regulation. You remember regulations, those nasty little things that say workers shouldn't be exposed to dangerous chemicals and dangerous working conditions? Those nasty little regulations that say kids should be in school and not working 6 twelve hour days? Or that governments shouldn't use prisoners to make products and take away jobs from decent folk.

Unions didn't drive business offshore. Manufacturers went offshore for one reason. Increased profit. Remember the days when northern businesses moved to the southern US to escape unions? Remember what happened? They were there for a while, then decided to go to Mexico. Then later they decided to head for the Pacific Rim. It wasn't about unions, that was just the red herring they tossed out. It was about corporate greed.

Remember the old days when an employer, so long as they could pay themselves a decent salary, maybe show a profit, they would stay in business out of loyalty to the people that made their product? Today they will close the doors and move offshore, not because they are unprofitable. Often they are making record profits, but can make more offshore, but gosh we are sorry we have to take you and your families livelihood away.

And all the while your buddies in the Republican party continue to pass laws that don't protect US workers, but make it easier for industrialists to ship our jobs away.

pdq doesn't like it when I attack your views. Tough shit. It is long past the time to drop the gloves. Your views are dangerous to working families.