[RSBob]

Back in the 90’s the cry by big business was for Globalization. The Arthur Anderson group was one of the consulting companies leading the charge in pushing offshoring to major US manufacturers as a way to cut costs and increase profits. It made the shareholders happy while US factory, textile and many more manufacturers had shops in the Far East and other third world low wage countries while eliminating their domestic workforce. People here wanted it cheap, companies are under pressure to have increasing profits and so here we are.

I try to buy American even if it costs more to support American jobs. I try to buy from mom and pop shops rather than big box stores. The more of us who buy US goods made here the better for our economy and fellow Americans. It’s too bad that everyone doesn’t have the income to do that.

Oh, my dad used to be a Pathologist and learned that images of American tissue samples are now being electronically sent to India to be read by their Pathologists whom earn less than their US counterparts, but the amounts charged to patients and insurance companies only goes up.