James Merkner’s April 3 letter, “Immigration: U.S. must go back to old numbers,” expresses the frustration of many voters in not understanding why Congress encourages millions of American jobs to leave for foreign countries with low paying wages. It starts with the American corporation’s promise to make large campaign contributions to individual members of Congress in exchange for support of national trade policies encouraging the moving of production plants to countries with cheap foreign labor.
Large corporations are hiring foreign workers while simultaneously laying off American employees. Blue-collar manufacturing jobs were the first to be “outsourced”; now, high paying white-collar jobs are going overseas as well.
As the exporting of high-wage jobs moves to low-wage countries such as India and Communist China, both of our major political parties are pushing economically destructive federal policies that hurt American jobs and reward foreign countries.
Will Congress take responsibility for the loss of American jobs, and will its members have the courage to face their corporate friends and say, “no more”?
If American jobs, businesses and communities are to be saved from this devastation, the middle class white-collar and blue-collar workers and independent business owners must combine efforts to force Congress into reversing the destructive policies that are exporting our productivity and standard of living and start protecting America’s workers and families.
Edmonds
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