American Vs. Foreign Employees
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Presidential responsibility requires much focus on both the United States' economy and the labor force. In order to establish a thriving nation of successful commerce and secure employment opportunities for all Americans, it is important to create policies to ensure that these goals are achieved. Therefore, an essential platform in my presidential race would be the guarantee that although businesses have the right to manufacture their products overseas, a law should limit the ratio between American vs. foreign employees to at least 2:1 in order to improve employment rates in the United States.
One of the major reasons the economy has been suffering in recent years is the fact that employment rates have plummeted. Workers are deemed unqualified for many jobs, and while lower classes struggle to find work, the upper class enjoys extravagant salaries. In order to balance the employment rate between the classes, the United States also must provide higher education in order to better train and qualify more Americans. If there were more skillful workers entering the work force, employment rates would be fulfilled rather than depreciative, thus improving the nation's economy.
It has become a common business practice to conduct physical labor overseas, because it is much more cost efficient to pay foreigners to do a job that Americans would require more pay for. Most corporations have established a distinct ploy that calls for design/intellectual labor to be accomplished in the United States, while the actual manufacturing/manual labor is done in countries overseas. This has caused a decrease in the employment opportunities that should be presented to Americans, and it must be stopped. Although it is beneficial to individual company revenues, the collective effect of international labor has been damaging to our country's economy. Therefore, I feel it would be in the country's best interest to establish a ratio of American workers to foreign workers in order to guarantee that the hard-working citizens of the United States are offered the same opportunity as workers overseas. Although we run the risk of harming our foreign relationships by denying them jobs, the total outcome should prove worth it. Ultimately, this should help boost economic profits, if income is being earned in the United States rather than overseas, due to the fact that said income will also be spent within our borders as a result.
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