
Originally Posted by
Hopper
Not all other countries are communist or enemies of the U.S., so it's not treason to hire outside of the U.S. Ironically the requirement for American companies to only hire American employees is unpatriotic, since it free enterprise requires the freedom to hire whomever one wishes. Does this extend to allowing American companies to buy supplies from only other American companies?
The notion that everyone should buy only American made products to protect American companies and jobs is actually very wrong. Each country should manufacture or provide what it produces most efficiently and buy from other countries what they produce most efficiently. This is the best economic arrangement for all, since it assures the lowest prices and the highest quality. This is the same thing on an international level that we do individual level. We don't practice total self-sufficiency, we make use of specialists for all of our needs, because it saves us the most money and time and gives us the best standards. America doesn't lose jobs or money to foreign countries or companies, since if the other countries buy from America, it evens out.
Buying only American would actually be damaging, because costs increase and quality goes down. It does not benefit American companies, because those companies are also buyers, meaning they have to buy American too, regardless of whether it is for the best price and quality. If they pay more and get lower quality supplies, they are forced to produce lower quality goods and services and also raise their prices to cover the extra costs to themselves. In other words, American companies don't benefit because they make the same sacrifices as their customers do by being loyal to them.
This is NOT the same things as "globalization" or "free trade", which are actually a set of legislative restrictions (i.e. not free enterprise or trade) devised to arrange world manufacturing bases and trade conditions to the benefit corporations, not countries and all people in them.
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