For those that know me it comes as no surprise that I am not a fan of Georgia ‘W’ Bush. Living in a county where 85 percent of those that voted in the 2004 election voted for Bush…I’m a minority in my own community.
One thing I do agree with President Bush on that most in the Southern U-S probable do not is the Central America Free Trade Agreement. Recently one of my cohorts in radio did an editorial asking people to call their congressman and ask that they vote against CAFTA . Saying we were going to lose the last remaining textile jobs and lose other jobs to countries in Central America.
Well it’s time for the textile industry and those that are hanging on with hopes that textile jobs will come back to wake up and smell the dye because those jobs aren’t coming back.
American companies are going to continue to outsource to other countries as long as the production cost is less and the quality is as good if not better. And guess what? The cost is less and the quality is better. American Made doesn’t mean what it used to anymore.
If you’re a textile worker and you’re not looking for another job, getting new training or preparing in someway to support you and your family when your job gets exported, don’t blame others because you couldn’t read the writing on the wall…I guess no child left behind came to late for some.
AJ
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