Jim Donovan, the Ageless Boomer

There is a lot of media attention being given to the topic of
outsourcing to foreign counties, which in case you just dropped in from
Pluto, is when a company subcontracts its business or a portion thereof
to another company. Usually it’s for cost savings.

Presently, in the United States, this is becoming a problem since the
outsourcing is being done to other counties thereby eliminating US
jobs.

Is all of this being driven by corporate greed? In some cases, yes, in
some cases there are greedy corporations concerned only with return on
investment and looking good to their Board of Directors. Focusing only
on the current stock price, they’re quick to turn their backs on the
American workers who helped build the company in the first place.
There is however, another side to the issue. There is another even
bigger culprit behind the loss of hundreds of thousands of US jobs. As
someone once said, “We have met the enemy, and it is us!”

Those among us who prefer to shop at superstores in order to obtain the
lowest price always; instead of supporting our local economy, are the
real cause of this down turn in the US job market and the resulting
economic down turn.

It is our dichotomous position of “buy the lowest price” but “keep my
job here” that forces the hundreds of thousands of small businesses to
stop selling to the likes of Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Marshalls. Companies
like Artscape, Inc. of Bala Cynwyd Pennsylvania, who were forced to
stop selling to one of the giant chains because they could not produce
a product low enough to meet the demands of the buyers, something
easily accomplished by competitors who pay a daily wage that is less
than the average American earns in an hour. The local economy jobs
that would have been created from this increase in Artscape’s business
will not occur.

We can’t have it both ways. The old adage of “you can’t have your cake
and eat it too” comes to mind. We can’t demand the lowest price on
everything we buy and expect jobs to remain in this country. As they
say, “something’s gotta give.” Personally I’m willing to pay a bit more
and support my local businesses when possible. This makes sense to me;
it always has even before the big box stores. Local small businesses
are the backbone of any nation. They provide the bulk of new jobs in
any given year, for example, in 2003 small businesses created eleven
million new jobs.

Small businesses put money back into the community in which I live
through their taxes as well as supporting team sponsorships and
charitable donations to local causes. Each of us must decide if we
want to buy into the poverty mindset of having to get the lowest price
and “beat the other guy” or if we are ready to open ourselves up to the
abundance of our world and understand that life can be a win-win
proposition and that getting the lowest price is not all that important
in the long run.

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