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[Chris Merrill]

On 1/24/2011 12:24 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> The same is true for fruit pickers, meat packing plant workers and nurses. Bringing people from
> outside the country, to live in USA at a pay that americans can't live on, 

Let's be clear, here.  They (we) CAN live on a much lower salary, but choose not to.
Our standard of living here is very high. We should not be surprised that our customers
(the companies that purchase our work product) look elsewhere when they can get similar
quality for 1/2-1/4 the price.

Now you can certainly debate the difference in quality, but at least to the customer,
they believe they are getting more for their dollar (if they didn't they wouldn't be buying
the product).  How many of us will buy the US-made product at a premium price when all other
things are considered equal?  We may say we will, but study after study shows that people
will buy the less expensive foreign-made product every time.

So despite an apparent quality gap, companies continue to outsource to cheaper
labor markets. If you want to change that, you have two choices:
1) Make the case for it not really being cheaper due to lower quality.
2) Make it cheaper to do business here. This is primarily a public policy problem.

We must obviously avoid discussion of topic #2 as it is way off topic for this forum,
but I encourage you to think about it next time you are in the voting booth.


Now, trying to bring this post back to the topic at hand:
The point here is that you need to think like them. You need to get into the heads of
your customers (employers) and make sure that you are offering the product they want
to buy. We all have to be a salesman for ourself.  We may not like it, but that is the
reality of the labor market.


C


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