Just asking...

[YepYep]

the questions Sunday news shows won’t ask.
To the esteemed scholar Nutnick. If other countries use the factories to produce goods resulting in a trade imbalance, then why should we listen to your party when your party destroyed American industrial jobs by sending them overseas? Just so businesses could make even more money? Ruining the lives of American factory workers?

[Clouds Passing]

1. Excellent question...

They’ll blame it on President Clinton.

[WhiteTara]

2. but it was really Bush the Dumber

[Norrrm]

3. And Mitt Romney who made a business specialty of sending jobs overseas.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

4. Have you ever watched "Shark Tank?"

The first question they always ask is where the product is manufactured. They almost always limit their investments to items outsourced to overseas manufacturers. That's why I stopped watching years ago.

[TheRickles]

6. Interesting. Even Mark Cuban? (not sure if he's even still on the show)

[Grumpy Old Guy]

7. I believe so.

However, he always seemed to me to be the most ethical one of the group. He was always the first to drop out of the bidding if something seemed fishy. I haven't watched it in years so I can't really say.

[cksmithy]

5. It is always about money and cost to do business.

It became cheaper to manufacture out of the country and then pay shipping costs to bring product back to the usa. When businesses did this, the only alternative was to have to pay the higher minimum hourly wage at the time (compared to China or Vietnam), which would of helped people of the us. They couldn't do that, they had to make more and more money. When this happened years ago, people talked about how the us was turning into a service economy, think, fast food worker, customer service departments, bank tellers, house keepers, gardner's, and not a manufacturing country. I'm old, the town I grew up in had a Firestone tire factory, a Smucker's jelly/jam factory, Nestle's or some candy factory and a Spreckles's Sugar factory, where high school graduates could get a good job. That was back in the 1950's to late 1970's. All gone now.