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In reply to the discussion: When are we ever, as a people, going to start to _try_ to make this country less miserable [View all]zalinda
(5,621 posts)If something is sold in America, it should damn well pay taxes in America. If the main company is in America they should damn well be hiring Americans to fill the jobs. You wonder why there is a downward spiral? It's because instead of companies paying wages that would support a family, they pay wages that would barely support a single person. If only one person in the family had to work, look how many jobs there would be available.
Companies closing doors all over the country because they can't make any money? If they paid their employees enough money to buy the products, maybe the doors would stay open. People only like cheap products because they don't have the money to buy the good stuff. Dollar stores are doing bang up business, so Sears starts selling cheap crap to 'compete' and now they are closing so many stores so fast that I'll be surprised if they are in business in a year. They didn't raise their employee salaries, they even changed their Craftsman line of tools, which were prized by so many DIY people, they did themselves in.
American COMPANIES are raping the rest of the world, it's not Americans, or white men.
Z