Hire Americans, pay them competitive wages. Companies need to resist the urge to just work the "left behinds" harder. When I was working, I survived a number of layoffs and each time my workload increased with no increase in pay, which pissed me off and trashed my work ethic.
When my turn eventually came I seized the opportunity for a buy-out and walked with a six month severance and moved out of the city. I was pleased to go, but I could have worked five more years. As it worked out in the long term, it saved me from having to make tough decisions about the COVID vax because the company would have surely mandated it. There was no way of knowing that in 2018.
That experience is likely experienced by many the same way.
It used to be manufacturing was by American companies who hired Americans.
Then American companies drifted more toward the service and tech sector, mostly retaining Americans to perform work.
Foreign manufacturers filled the manufacturing void by making products with foreigners overseas as 'American-made' declined.
Later the American companies became inconsequential by-and-large, and the ones continuing to work hired some foreigners to work US plants while upping overseas manufacturing with foreign workers.
Some American companies sold out to foreign countries (like the iconic GE Appliance Co which sold out to a Chinese company). Many other American companies did the same thing. This caused more and more US-based manufacturing to employ foreign workers, with a real affinity for the cheap labor afforded by illegals.
This cheap labor was a major impetus by the Uniparty to look the other way while illegals worked these jobs, even more so under Biden when they poured relentlessly across the border.
Will replacing foreign workers with American workers bring about higher costs so higher prices to products?
Likely a yes in the short term. But longer term, it will also bring more prosperity to America with more jobs, taxes being paid and a higher GDP. Far better than a growing government spending money and creating it out of thin air while it runs up our debt.
Also, I believe there is nothing wrong with a foreign entity owning manufacturing for Americans, as long as it is done here with American workers.
The next war will demand our manufacturing prowess to return and all those foreign-owned plants can be converted for our benefit if needed.
