There was a period of several decades when this type of thing was actively promoted in these United States. That would have been, of course, when the southern and southwestern states were actively wooing established businesses in the northeast to relocate their factories to the less expensive, more "business friendly" environs of the south and southwestern states. Except for the workers in the aforementioned northeastern states who lost their jobs in such relocations, pretty much everyone then thought this was A GOOD THING®.
But then a funny thing happened. Workers in the southern and southwestern states started wanting to earn more money. The people who actually owned these companies, having learned that it was not all that difficult to pick up and relocate entire operations, then did what any sane, entrepreneurial type would do -- relocated again, only the next time they departed the U.S. for ... who knows? Mexico, Malaysia, Chine, India, Pakistan, Taiwan. Suddenly the politicritters in Washington, who thought relocation in support of the BOTTOM LINEâ„¢ was a great thing within the U.S., suddenly flipped and decried relocation as "EVIL."
Hypocrisy, thy name is politician.
“We are fighting not just for ourselves but to prevent our company from creating a dangerous precedent for the rest of the country,” one of the employees told the local press.
Cognitive dissonance. If one is an "employee," one is not an owner. Thus, the company is not "our" company. Yes, it sucks to lose one's job. I should know -- I've been through it a time or three. But the blame should not be laid on the shoulders of the owners of the companies, it should be laid squarely on the shoulders of the socialist politicritters who view productive companies as cash cows, to be milked until dry and then cast aside in favor of the next Ponzi scheme they can dream up.
