Looking for an American Job
By Daniel Miessler on January 31st, 2008: Tagged as America | Culture | Politics
Joe Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN) for 6 a.m. While his coffee pot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG). He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA).
After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA) he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO) to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA) he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) filled it with gas from (Saudi Arabia) and continued his search for a good paying (AMERICAN) job.
At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer (MADE IN MALAYSIA), Joe decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL) poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE) and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA). He then wondered he can’t find a good paying job in America.
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In many of these cases, the managers and shareholders of these companies are in the US.
But sooner or later, people in other countries will figure out how to manage and own these companies without Americans.
There will be mass panic when over-paid US executives will lose their jobs, and foreigners buy more and more US companies.
That will be the tipping point: When either the US will start to retake manufacturing jobs and becomes strong again, or it becomes a rapidly shrinking market of people who make nothing but buy trinkets on their credit cards.
What does Warren Buffet think of this? http://www.pbs.org/wsw/news/fortunearticle2003102603.html
Comment by Ash — 1/31/2008 @ 4:25 am
So maybe Joe should…make something?
Comment by j — 1/31/2008 @ 2:45 pm
What would Ron Paul’s solution to this be?
Comment by Jason Sares — 1/31/2008 @ 5:56 pm
Joe invents something one weekend. He gets a brilliant idea, sketches it out, and even builds a crude prototype to convince himself that it will really work. He’s convinced that he’ll make some money if he can get the item produced inexpensively enough. It’s not something that people will pay big money for, but he’s convinced that it will sell if the price is right. Where should Joe get the item manufactured so as to maximize his profits?
Comment by Carl M — 1/31/2008 @ 6:31 pm