Why Do Our American Companies and Their Jobs Move to Foreign Countries??

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In starting this discussion, I would like to point out that NAFTA is and was Bill Clintons pet project. The question stated in the title is one that has many answers but not many people have ideas or solutions that might bring these industries back into the fold so to speak. The first reason that comes to mind is labor and labor unions. Now I know that unions can be a touchy subject and believe me there have been some lengthy and heated discussions in my immediate family concerning unions. My stance is that unions have not only outlived their usefulness but the have successfully priced themselves out of competition for the jobs provided by employers that are currently moving to friendlier climes. I also contend that the union as it once existed for the worker has in recent years began to take on a life of its own and now exists solely for the union and the union only. Example: In the city in which I live the city and surrounding 50 mile radius has approximately 100 thousand people. We have a plant which is a total union shop that employs about 2000 workers and works around the clock. Every three years a new union contract is negotiated and most of the time this goes without a hitch but the last contract negotiation didn't. The union was asking for a sizeable pay raise which the company wasn't about to budge on and the company was asking for a concession in company provided health insurance and the union wasn't budging on that. Long story short, the union struck and for about 30 days these 2000 people were without paychecks. Now before the union put the strike notice up for vote from the population, the president of the company told them that if they struck over these small concessions the company would be forced to move. The union didn't believe them and now today preparations are being made to move this company and its 2000 jobs to China. How do you think that will affect the economy here locally? Oh, the concessions? Pay raise--40 cents more, health insurance employee paid premium 18 dollars per month. That sure is something to lose your job over, isn't it? The union knew this when they recomended the strike but didn't want to look "weak"! Now they look dead! The next thing that weighs upon decisions to move companies out of our country is taxes. I have always maintained that you cannont ever overtax the wealthy who provide our livleyhoods simply because they also control the prices of goods we have to have or eventually will want. When a politician arbitrarily states that the people providing the jobs, the goods (cars, groceries, houses, whatever)along with taking ALL the risks and providing their own money or borrowing it, are not paying their fair share when they are already paying the greatest percentage of the taxes paid, this politician needs his head examined! When these people have more money to spend, more jobs are created. When these people are "punished" because they are successful, they do things like take jobs away. As long as there is a mindset in this coountry that the wealthy business owners are the problem, the companies will continue to move and America's economy will erode. In closing this discussion, we need to examine just how much we really want to "punish" the wealthy business owner for being so successful. When it becomes impossible for these people to make the profit they believe they need to make(and it really is these businesses that decide that)then we will see more and more of these businesses and their jobs with good salaries moving to China, Mexico or where ever the tax laws don't eat most of the profit. You people who have been here on MyLot know who I am maligning here and now it is your turn to add to this discussion. Do you feel the same way or not? Is there a better way?