Here's Republican Senate candidate David Perdue, explaining that he has nothing to explain regarding his career spent outsourcing and in fact is proud of that record.
I'm sorry, but Perdue is wrong and he knows he is wrong. No conceivable combination of regulatory and tax policies was going to bring the textile, furniture, apparel, footware or electronics industries back to the United States, not once he and other top executives in those industries realized that they could get workers to do the job for a tenth or less what they would pay American workers. In China, for example, the typical worker gets paid an average of $4,700 a year, and companies are now leaving that country in search of a workforce with a still lower pricetag.
Take a look at this graph:
Note that much of the collapse in Georgia's manufacturing sector -- a 33 percent reduction in jobs in a 15-year period -- occurred in an era when Republicans controlled state government and controlled most of the federal government as well. No, that doesn't mean they caused it. But it sure doesn't square with Perdue's narrative that the decline was caused by liberal policies.
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