Cheap Labor Overseas Creates Job Losses Here

I just learned that I’m about to lose my job. I guess we always knew the day would come when we would run out of projects. I guess I always kept my eyes closed, hoping that it would never happen. I’m 50 years old. I’m told it’s the worst job market in 20 years. I’m told that some competent, young people in my technical field have been out of work for over two years. I’m told that we’re about to create a war that, in a global-dependent economy, will only drive us deeper into recession ... or worse. Sometimes I wonder why we don’t withdraw all our overseas corporate ventures from the soil of foreign lands and bring those corporate entities home to employ the more than 2 million Americans who are out of work.

But I forget ... for eons, the bottom line of any business transaction in the money system is to take more than you give, or you’re out of business, and the easiest way to do so has always been at the expense of cheap labor -- cheap labor that is in abundance overseas. I just don’t believe that I belong here anymore. The wicked CEOs of the West have gone mad. Where is our Dorothy when we need her? I want to go home.

Chip Stinnett

Irvine