Jeremy Bentham (Will Campbell)

How one can even consider shifting jobs overseas in order to improve the economy is truly appalling. How is it not blatantly obvious that doing so would certainly not improve our economy? It's more likely to drive it further into the ground before it could POSSIBLY ever improve it! The only good reasons to send jobs overseas would be to take advantage of the cheap labor in other countries and the abundant natural resources there. Now sure, that sounds all fine and dandy, but just stop and think about it for a second. We're shifting jobs overseas because we are maliciously choosing to force men, women, and children of other countries to do our jobs for us just because we can pay them less to work more; that's absolutely terrible! By shifting jobs overseas, we are making the lives of countless foreign people harder just because we're too selfish to pay our workers what they really deserve. Also, by having them work for us, their own country is now left with less workers to make their own products; either that, or the foreign workers will be forced to work double time, which would be even worse for them. Another important reason why shifting jobs overseas would be a horrible idea is because, not only are we taking advantage of other countries' laborers, we're also taking advantage of their resources. We're so focused on getting more natural resources for ourselves, we're not even considering that other countries may want the same thing! By shifting jobs overseas, we would just be stealing resources from other countries, as well as their work force! Lastly is the obvious flaw in all of this: if jobs are shifted overseas, that means our own people will be left without jobs. That, in and of itself, is horrible considering how greatly it would decrease the standard of living for countless families. Also, though, to stay on the prompt at hand, if Americans don't have jobs, they cannot buy/invest in things. If Americans can't buy/invest in things, guess where our economy's going to go? Down the toilet! So really it's quite obvious (as it has been from the beginning) why shifting jobs overseas would be a inconceivable idea: malicious abuse of foreign peoples, hoarding of foreign resources for ourselves, and a plummet in the number of Americans with jobs. Not only would shifting jobs overseas be poor for our economy, but for the world's economy.