[link:http://www.journalstandard.com/newsnow/x772636936/J-S-Letter-Outsourcing-is-not-an-inherent-right-of-U-S-business]Outsourcing is not an ‘inherent right’ of U.S. business

Freeport, Ill. — In response to John Heilman’s lengthy, but fact-free, October 9 letter to the editor claiming Sensata workers were “barking up the wrong tree” in their on-going struggle to save their American jobs from being outsourced to communist China, a few fallacies have to be cleared up:

None of the employees whose jobs will be soon shipped to Red China have ever claimed that Mitt Romney was the current head of the company.

The workers and their many supporters contacted the company’s board of directors and Sensata’s current CEO — as did our local representatives — to plead the former Honeywell workers case, but to no avail. Sensata’s Board of Directors responded to their soon-to-be laid off employees that the decision to move the plant to Red China was in order to be “closer to their Asian customers.”

That means that the company sees no future in American exports and that they also think we’re all idiots.

First, if a company believes that U.S. exports are a thing of the past, they certainly shouldn’t be rewarded with tax incentives to move off-shore, let alone a foreign trade treaty.

Secondly, the Sensata’s “Asian customers” are unquestionably other Chinese factories who will use Sensata’s products to produce goods destined for our shores.

And that’s where Mitt Romney comes in...

The company’s response meant taking the workers’ case directly to the company’s stock holders as a last ditch effort to keep their jobs in Freeport, and Mitt Romney is, and has always been, the company’s main shareholder.

To Mr. Heilman, and to those others who refuse to open their eyes, I say this: Too many Americans falsely believe that the outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas is an inherent right that American employers have earned and deserve.

But such is not the case.

No trade treaty with Red China, no outsourcing U.S. jobs to Red China.

To paraphrase George W. Bush’s former labor secretary, while no American worker is entitled to a good paying job, let alone one with decent benefits, no American employer is entitled to communist Chinese labor, either.

There’s no giant corporate tax break that a company could ever get that would match the profits that a domestic employer could pocket using overseas communist slave-labor and no government regulation that could be done away with that would make up for the horrible working conditions that Chinese labor toils under.

I’d wise up real quick, Mr. Heilman.

Your job is next.

Del Wasso
Freeport