Why do we export so much unskilled labor and then wonder why the uneducated can't seem to find jobs?

[Alice]

I am more concerned with overseas labor, but of course "importing" illegal immigrants isn't helping the situation.

[Iceman]

You mean import?
You have a good point most unskilled labor come to this country trough Immigration both legal and illegal.
Due to lack of eduction and skills, the majority compete for lower paid jobs that could make it harder for the Americans who are also interested to find such jobs

[vwvw40]

Cheap Labor is why! China will make their workers labor for 14-16 hours a day 7 days a week and if the complain, they die! China will force these workers to work for $2.00 a day, if they complain, they die! Hmm seems to be a pattern here.

[Thunderousuncle986]

where u fro in california its imported so us californians cant find work .so if your exorting laborers to here please take them back we do'nt want them

[nononsense]

Let's see, in China 50 cents an hour for labor, in America $6.50 for the same labor.

[Home-School]

I believe you either meant to say "Export jobs" or "Import labor"

Why do we expect to fix joblessness by taxing corporations and making it more expensive to build products here?

The party of the poor, needs to create more poor people. The more poverty, misery, unemployment and immorality it can produce, the more people who will demand government help.

[David G]

It's all about $$$$$. What is the annual goal of every company in the world? It's to make more profit the next year, hence the outrageous charges for dumb things on phone bills, increase in tuition for students even though they're less professors/teachers working, etc...Companies get greedy and they're always looking for more ways to make you spend a penny or two. If a million people spend a penny for your services...well, that's a lot of pennies.

[63vette]

Actually I think the unskilled labor jobs here are filled by the immigrants, both legal and illegal.
The industry I have been working in for the last 18 years has a lot of unskilled and lower paying jobs in it (most is manual labor and hard work). The problem is that there are no uneducated/under-educated Americans who will take the jobs....... only the immigrants. The Americans always quit because the work is too hard.

If you are wondering why so many of American jobs (manufacturing, etc.) are going elsewhere, the reasons can be found in all the trade agreements put in place over the last 2 - 3 decades and lower costs (wages, taxes, etc.) for moving those type jobs to foreign countries.

[George S]

The grossly overpopulating cultures pump out ever more desperate excess labor that is always willing to work cheaper than our unskilled work force.

[Peppermint Patty]

Because the "we" in your question is different for the two cases you mention -
unskilled or low-skilled labor is outsourced because "we" (the people acting through Congress) subject our own labor force and factories to regulations, taxes, wage levels and other uncompetitive factors,

then "we" (our businessmen and their lobbyists) let countries with lower wages, less safe workplaces, poorly-protected work forces and more polluting factories compete very unfairly for work with our own people,

then "we" (you and me and everyone else who is frustrated because ten percent of us in the United States are out of work) wonder why not just the uneducated, but people of all walks of life and educations, can't find jobs.

"We" (the people, acting through Congress) should demand that cheap goods built in ramshackle, polluting, unsafe factories by poorly-paid, poorly-treated workers (some of them prison labor) not be imported and sold in the United States. I think that on a level playing field, even people with modest educations in this country can compete effectively with overseas workers.

"We" should also stop labor unions from committing the abusive practices which make our products and our workers uncompetitive on the world stage.

"We" (the people) should demand that the press cover ALL the reasons American industial workers are not competitive - gouging American consumers by demanding relatively huge wages in the auto and other heavy industries for our new cars and other heavy durable goods. We should take a long and searching look at labor unions and how they enjoy power far beyond any benefit they may provide to American society.

And "we" (the people) should never vote for or support any candidate for public office who has promised to help labor unions gouge us and their own workers by demanding inordinate wages, much of which in the form of union dues support corrupt and outright evil politicians. The power of labor unions is so pervasive that I don't have to point out who's in labor's pocket - the President, Vice-President and most of the Congressional leadership are terrified to tell Big Labor to take a hike.

When we go back to a fair day's work for a fair day's wage, demand that goods built under terrible conditions not be imported and sold here, and put Big Labor back in its place, we won't have to wonder why so many of us are out of work.