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Originally Posted by mosc_007
Trying to force American companies to return to the USA wont work. Like Australia, the average American couldn't afford to buy goods made in the USA.
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Originally Posted by Bevan31
Trying to force American companies to return to the USA wont work. Like Australia, the average American couldn't afford to buy goods made in the USA.
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The scary part is we have little to no manufacturing jobs in Australia and while a lot of older members here would remember having steady 40 hour per week employment now many people I know work 3 jobs (and have children) to get enough hours up per week to pay bills and raise children.
I think we older folk had it good in a many respects, steady, reliable income and the ability to plan. Since all of the manufacturing was moved offshore, while prices are cheap it doesn't help if there's no job and no money coming in to buy them.
The problem I've been told is the Australian workers expected too much pay while the people overseas (in Bangladesh, a story on ABC the other day about the owners behind Rivers and several other brands owing the sewing/clothing manufacturing company in Bangladesh millions of dollars they've been told they are not going to get) get paid very little for long hours.
Those people in the Bangladesh factory work for $6 per day.
All of the BIG brands got very rich off of slave labour overseas.