Reply #28: I have yet to hear a real solution - does one exist? [View All]

[Democat]

When you are running a business, and you can get similar labor exponentially cheaper elsewhere, and in fact your competitors already are using cheaper labor, what are you supposed to do? If you decide to pay and charge more for a product, you will probably go out of business, then those jobs are lost anyway.

We can all get upset about it, but are you willing to pay triple the price for a shirt or a computer program because it was made by U.S. workers? I doubt the average Walmart shopper cares where something is made, they care how much it costs.

Also, outsourcing is not always an issue of exploiting workers. Many workers in India and other countries are paid reasonable salaries for the work they are doing, it's just that "reasonable" in India is a lot different than "reasonable" in America because of the cost of living in each country.

What is the solution?