Hershey's Chocolate moving to Mexico affects all ER nurses

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Setting aside the fact that most ER nurses like chocolate, the Hershey's chocolate company has decided to close all its American and Canadian factories and relocate to Mexico, laying off thosands of American workers. Do all of the ER nurses realize what this means? The more layoffs, the more unemployed; the more unemployeyed, the more people without health insurance; the more people without health insurance , the more ER visits as a result of people using the ER as a clinic.

Something needs to be done.

Only one of many many industries that have abandoned the US worker.It doesnt make any sense .When the poor cant even afford Walmart the US economy will fall even further. Why don't these companies realize when there are no jobs HERE, people wont be able to buy their products, made everywhere BUT here,anymore? Greed is an ugly thing, has ruined our country.

The companies benefit financially by moving away from America. This is very deliberate on the part of those in power (lawmakers, those who control the money in our world).

Soon they will bring us the total collapse of the dollar. Maybe even this year.

Heard of NAFTA?

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i was raised by auto workers, i know this all very well. i remember my dad being laid off, and i remember the gm plant he worked at was threatened with closing and sending its senior employees (my dad included) to michigan. my mom tells me about how she used to have to picket.

i buy american whenever i can. because i know what it's like when people don't.

jess

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Hope they spike the cocoa with a little coca! ;) Just kidding. Serious crisis. I guess maybe my addiction to chocolate will be fed for a little cheaper.

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The companies benefit financially by moving away from America. This is very deliberate on the part of those in power (lawmakers, those who control the money in our world).

Soon they will bring us the total collapse of the dollar. Maybe even this year.

Heard of NAFTA?

YES, who hasn't?
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hi,

well, we can't really compete with china, india, or mexico. we won't work for a dollar a day. we're not all willing to live in shacks in the slums. there aren't a billion americans yet.
i'm sorry but this is absolute rubbish - you are comparing apples to oranges to orangutans.

it's an easy cheapshot to accuse asian economies but the truth is that china, india and other asian economies hold a lot of current us debt. yeah, it's a snap ******** about "outsourcing" and "loss of manufacture related jobs" --- but the truth is rarely ever told. if it weren't for the central banks of third world nations (with the exception of japan) - which by extension mean the product of the peples of those nations - so generously subsidising our lavish lifestyle by continuing to finance our trillions dollar debt, most of us would be living a far harder life than we'd imagine.

don't take my word for it - just check what the economist outs out every month. i merely suggest "the economist", because it is futile to get a straight answer from congress.

so, in order to fatten the bottom line, ceos screw over americans and close down american factories to make goods to export to americans who are increasingly out of work or have lower-paying jobs
if you so disagree with the way ceos of us companies do business - stop buying their products.

i hear a lot of complaints about the "free market that makes it possible for scum to rob the honest hard working people". most people who fall for that complaint never seem to check how many "subsidies" (meaning 'tax payer money') are offered by government to thousands of classes of "industry" deemed "vital" or "preotected".

a certain industrialist is able to curry favor with a politician to ensure his competitors have an unfair obstacle to surmount in selling the same product.

then masses call "foul" on the "free market" - though there is no such thing in place (indeed, one just has to start scanning the over 10,000 pages of the federal register that lists the myriad "federal regulations" to even begin understanding the concept).... though the actual scam slips by - namely that some people ("certain industrialist") got to benefit through government intervention at the cost of others ("other industrialist" or maybe even "mom and pop store").

if you think i'm jesting - take your common cola/soda for example: when all the rest of the world uses pure, natural sugar to flavor soft drinks - why are we in the us stuck with "high fructose corn syrup"?

i wonder if these ceos have considered the fact that if americans don't buy their products, that chinese, indians, and mexicans aren't going to pay the same prices for their products that americans were willing to. few people in third world countries will be able to pay $15 for a pair of pants, $3 for candy. they're used to paying pennies on the dollar, and the wages they're getting paid aren't going to make them any more willing to pay american prices. i guess the population difference in china and india will make up for it.
this is absurd - you aren't mating price parity with purchasing power. meaning?

just because a can of coca-cola costs $0.50 in the us doesn't mean it will cost $0.50 in the countries where they are sold. it may cost the equivalent of $0.50 ... but more likely than not, it'll cost what the local market dictates.

let us take india for example: a 300 ml bottle of coca-cola costs about rs. 15 - which is equivalent to about $0.35 usd in todays exchange rate. when was the last time you had a can of coke for 35 cents? or even 50 cents?

"cost" is more than just what "monetary unit" you pay into.to say something like :

the wages they're getting paid aren't going to make them any more willing to pay american prices.
belies a lack of economic function.

can you make one logical argument as to:

1. why should companies market products outside the us at us market prices?

2. if said companies above did market their wares at us market prices, why should the locals where those products are sold buy them?

europeans protect their own. why can't america do the same? european workers get better wages and benefits than american workers do, but few european companies are screaming poverty and moving from germany and britain to russia or turkey, leaving their workers in the lurch.
if you're willing to accept the stagnating economies of europe with little to slow growth and their high rates of unemployment - be my guest....

kudos to our captains of industry for screwing america over yet again. i guess as long as you guys get what you want, nothing else matters, huh.
actually, business in america is responding to political climate - the more unfriendly it becomes, the fewer businesses will stay.

remember, it's "business". not "charity".

big difference.

thanks,

matthew

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