Exporting Jobs, Importing Poverty
The unintended message of “GM Strike Is Hitting Workers in Mexico Hard” [June 24] is that GM alone has 84,000 ex-American jobs in Mexico.
Political opponents of Ross Perot loved to ridicule him partly for his famous line about the “giant sucking sound” of jobs going to Mexico. But by effectively silencing him, his opponents made sure that these jobs did not make a giant sucking sound when they went, but instead went quietly with the acquiescence of U.S. politicians. Most important to Americans is the fact that they went south nonetheless.
Anyone who thinks that America is a bottomless pool of jobs and money is a fool. The U.S. cannot continue indefinitely to export jobs and import poverty.
ROBERT PEREZ
Rancho Cucamonga
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