IMO there is quit a bit of truth to many of the posts. Globalization, for the US at least is a good thing but it could also be a horrible thing if not kept in check. It has certainly given us more options but it has also weakened us as a country because we are less reliant on ourselves. The part that is most disturbing to me is the fact it has happened so fast, sure it has been happening for years but in the last few, at least in MI, we have suffered major job losses because of it. And although the fat lazy union rapists who have been destroying the price of US manufacturing products for decades (small rant, sorry) had it coming it is a giant economic/job loss for us, and one that will not be recovered in the same manufacturing capacity ever. Basically leaving many very skilled manufacturers without a hope of doing what they are good at and being forced to switch careers into something they will have to learn. Of course we will recover but it will not happen without some painful bumps. In hindsight we should have regulated outsourcing and exporting overseas and south more carefully.

It is kind of like one day the global doors were opened and the factories in the US’s doors were closed.


Thanks America*


*Translated from the Spanish and Chinese.