[Free Market Fred]

Excellent post, Rev. Jim!

You are absolutely correct, outsourcing is the way to go. Like you, I got tired of all those ridiculous "workers' rights" regulations like giving employees coffee, lunch and bathroom breaks. What's wrong with eating while you work? As for the bathroom, in our factories we deliberately don't pave the floor with concrete - this enables our workers to relieve themselves right there on the dirt floor, then use a shovel at the end of the day to turn over the soil. This is natural organic composting, which is good for the environment, so the greenies should approve. Furthermore, it's easier on the workers' feet - standing on concrete hurts when you don't have shoes.


Dirt floors - better for workers, good for the environment

That having been said, there are a couple of points where, quite frankly, you could have handled the lay-offs better:

Originally Posted by Rev. Jim Osborne

Well, my staff started feeling entitled. They said I left them out in the cold by laying off everyone en masse with three days notice.

Big mistake giving three days notice. They make take those three days to provide bad service, say bad things to your customers, steal items from the office, etc. The best thing to do is give no notice - just send a text message after they've left work saying that they're fired, and can pick up their personal items from the cardboard box you've thoughtfully placed next to the dumpster out in the parking lot.

One lady who worked for me for 10 years even had the gall to demand a couple weeks severance from me. Excuse me? Why should I pay someone weeks of work when they do no work? I even tried to compromise by agreeing to retain my American workers, but at the equivalent of Indian wages (which would of course be paid under the table.) They balked at my generous offer.

Good point about the severance pay, but again, hiring back your laid-off staff (even at Indian wages) is a non-starter. You'll get all kinds of grumbling, employee sabotage, etc. If you still want to hire workers in America, you're much better off with illegal aliens, who are too terrified of being deported to make any trouble when you underpay them.

This socialist mindset is destroying America. Don't people realize that what makes America great is the free exercise of capitalism? Don't they realize what is best for the CEOs and richest 1% is best for the whole country? Didn't they listen to the Godly President Reagan and understand how trickle-down economics work? If I get richer, I spend the money, and that money goes back into the economy. It keeps the life blood flowing.

A big Amen! to all of the above. Trickle down economics does benefit American consumers. For example, even though I put almost all of my billions into my Swiss bank account and the vault in Hong Kong where I keep gold bars, a least a few million trickles back to the USA in the form of bribes to congressmen and senators. And let's not forget that my company's pay-day loan business provides quick cash to middle class American consumers at a mere 400% annual interest rate.

There is no better way of protecting American jobs than by outsourcing them so that companies can save money, and thereby stimulate the economy better.

Absolutely true! And once we get American wages down to the level of China, I think there's great potential for American workers to find jobs abroad. Massage parlors in Moscow and Beijing are already looking for young American women who would like a working-holiday (typically five years) abroad. After the recent disaster in Chile where a mine collapsed trapping workers, the Chileans are considering bringing in low-wage laborers from the Third World - again, this is a great opportunity for unemployed Americans, if only they weren't so spoiled by Obama's socialism.


Coal mining - new career opportunities for American youth abroad

Has our country gone mad?

You need to ask?