Reply #1: How many US retail jobs do you need [View All]

[terisel]

How many US based retail jobs do you need to sell over the internet to American customers?

Basically I think many multinational corporations see Americans right now as taxpayers who fund services for them:

1. military might and State Department services that gives them confidence to locate and do business overseas.
2. source of payments when they are contracting directly with US goverment or obtaining "support" payments through Agriculture and other departments.
3. a market for their goods and services.

At the point when we no longer have a thriving middle class as a market-they will be marketing to emerging markets around the globe.

The reason Bush will never limit immigration from Mexico and South America (which drives part of his base crazy) is because lower wages will require more workers to pull in the same amount of tax dollars for the ever-expanding corporations.

Beware the "we" word.