Last 2 elections show this isn't true at all. DNC got far, far more money from big corps.
Which elections were those? Both parties are dominated by corporate money, but I don't see how a link about union members supporting Trump proves that. There is no way you can deny Dems are better for workers and unions than the GOP which is why you haven't tried. Good. Unions directed 91% of their campaign contributions to Democrats from 1990 through the first half of 2020 for a reason. And individual union members voting against their own economic interests (or at least against worker protections and pro worker candidates) proves to me they're more likely racist than concerned about their financial well being than they are with worker rights, as I just said in my last post. The only reason they have unions in the first place is because of Democrats, but the second someone comes along and dog whistles to their biases their dicks get hard and they can't help but start waving giant flags with his name on it. How embarrassing.
I don't really care who is president in either party.
Lol coulda fooled me. You went hard for Trump. Own it.
You haven't answered my question about opportunity costs to the nation.
I don't see what my answer has to do with my skill set. I won't apologize for my tangent either, cuz I was responding to the wrong quote. Deal with it. My points are good. You're welcome for sharing my insight with you :)
Yes national security is one of the only opportunity costs I see from outsourcing if you're referring to the country as a whole and not individual jobs or industries. There's exposed security + economic risk being at the mercy of other countries in important sectors like manufacturing. Take the Covid-19 crisis as one example when we needed lots of PPE and fast. We would not want to have to rely on China or any other country for supplies in an instance like that.
It goes without saying I'm very much pro trade. I do think we need to renegotiate a few things, but for the most part outsourcing jobs doesn't bother me. I guess another opportunity cost would be trading stability and security in exchange for prosperity and opportunity. However I very much value the latter. The economy will evolve to provide jobs in the US; that's what I was getting at in my last post.
There is an old anecdote (probably fiction) about Milton Friedman being taken on a tour of a giant Chinese infrastructure project of some kind, in which the workers were using old-fashioned shovels and picks and wheelbarrows. Friedman asked why they weren’t using bulldozers and other heavy machinery. The answer was“We care about creating jobs for our people.” To which Friedman responded “Then why not use spoons?”
