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Whose Job Is It Anyways?

November 28, 2006 ⋅  E-Mail Article ⋅  Print Article ⋅ Post a comment

Whose job is it anyways? It’s not my job, is it your job? Whose job is it to create jobs in America? If you ask the President he says it’s not his job to create jobs, it’s his job to make sure America is in an environment conducive to creating jobs. If you ask the Congress or the Senate they both will say it’s their job to oversee the jobs created but they do not specifically create jobs for Americans. If you ask your Mayor or Governor they will tell you it’s not a local politician’s job to create individual jobs it’s their job to oversee the health of business in their control as a whole. If you ask your current employer whose job it is to create jobs they tell you that they only create positions as the need arises and this is a policy constantly being changed. Lastly if we ask each other we will all say the same thing, it’s not our job to create jobs. So whose job is it? Do you really understand how and why jobs are created in America? It’s simple, if we build it we can buy it if we can’t we won’t and not buying is the beginning of the end for any economic prosperity. Understand now?

To begin with, we all enjoy shopping at places like Wal-Mart. We love the cheap big screen televisions, we love the under-priced T-shirts and pants, and we love the cheap durable goods. However, when we buy cheap imported goods at places like Wal-Mart we are actually costing ourselves a little piece of the American future as well as costing thousands of Americans their jobs immediately throughout domestic America.

I have no problem with Wal-Mart, they employ a large amount of Americans and this is a good thing. However, the fact that they sell mainly imported goods from India and China is a bad thing, a very bad thing. Imports hammer American prosperity and the price dumping policies of some Asian countries is almost lethal in regards to cheap imports. This begs the question, ‘If we rail on Americans for buying cheap cars from Japanese and Chinese automakers, why do we let American shoppers off the hook when they spend their hard earned dollars at stores who specialize in selling cheap imports?’

If we say buy an American car then why do we tolerate an Indian Help-Desk, or a Vietnamese Call Center? If you want to be a stickler then at least be consistent. We cannot pick and choose when we want to be patriotic and sensible, we either are or we are not. We rally so hard about he name on an automobile while at the same time we buy imported goods at Wal-Mart and call foreign Call Centers for our helpdesk needs. This is hypocrisy at its finest and it is this hypocrisy coupled with American complacency which is costing us American jobs.

It’s up to us to create American jobs. We need to support businesses who keep domestic workers in America functioning. We need to ride our politicians to make sure they do keep America competitive in the economic marketplace. We need to make sure our fellow Americans understand that buy American is just not a slogan for the Big Three, it is an economic policy for all areas of American commerce.

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