How the American businessman sold America out and how the American government helped.

Generally, businesses occasionally worked with other countries to manufacture parts and consumer goods, they always have. Most of the time they were connected with making a small part for a larger part, for example I owned a 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am. Although, it was built and assembled in Van Nuys, California, I found a few components such as the dashboard speaker was built in Mexico. I don’t particularly know why that part was made there other than proximity to the CA plant. But I do know a lot of other goods may partly be built based on where many of the product’s materials originate for ease and cost and it does make sense. However, many decades ago, not long after the Vietnam War ended. China, as well as America was a mess. But eventually those doors slowly began to open. It wasn’t long before the American businessman got word of record profits due to the access to cheap labor. Exponentially inferior cheap Chinese manufacturing increased while American manufacturing plummeted. Everyone knows this and likewise everyone is also guilty of making it worse. This is why we have mega markets like Walmart and Amazon selling extremely cheap garbage. To go even further, many of these companies will import the materials and other unfinished products to their Chinese based manufacturing companies from other countries only to have their cheap garbage once finished sent back here to be stocked on our store shelves. To add, how many times have you the reader tried to get in touch with a customer service agent only to get forwarded to some overseas foreign call taker. We shot ourselves in our foots, not once but twice. Running parallel to the decrease in manufacturing here in the states, wages started lagging as jobs began to go by way of the dodo and competition for existing jobs increased (basic economics.) Ever since, wages have remained at 1970’s levels. There were attempts to reign this in but likely disappeared by companies paying off officials over and over. Do not place blame on democrats, this was a businessman thing! And if shooting ourselves in the foot, once or twice wasn’t bad enough. We did it a third time. These businessmen that we hold dearly in good ole America dodged taxes every chance they could as they profited. Wait a minute, wait a minute, we shot ourselves in the foot yet again! Those businesses here in America who couldn’t export the labor imported it. For decades as immigrants continued to trickle into the “land of the free,” Americans were sometimes replaced by immigrants and increasingly illegal immigrants. But many of these jobs were jobs Americans were never going to do as the pay fell to deeply substandard amounts. I did carpentry for several years and the pay simply was not worth the hard labor involved. The parallel issue was people that needed work on their homes no doubt trying to save money in an increasingly expensive country, logically hired those immigrant-led construction crews. DO NOT BLAME OR TERRORIZE the immigrants for wanting to live a good life. PENALIZE those businesses that hire illegals! There is always an excuse why these businessmen keep getting away with shit and it needs to stop!