Dick Durbin presses Apple on human rights in China

Durbin should be far more concerned about the huge numbers of our jobs being lost to China every year.

People wonder why all of the jobs are overseas. It has been a foreign policy for decades that people are just starting to scrutinize. Low tariffs and a close relationship with China's labor-force has pushed jobs elsewhere. The two groups benefitting are the consumers and CEOs of corporations. Consumers benefit from the low prices and the CEOs see an increase in profit margin. Questioning these corporations will lead nowhere. Our reliance on China and other Eastern Asian countries is entrenched into our society.

This is posturing, nothing more. If the Chinese yuan was actually allowed to float against the world's major currencies, the trade imbalance would fix itself in short order and our goods wouldn't all be made in China.

Let me know when Durbin calls for a list of 30 US government agencies that coddle the Chinese in one way or another.

Evident in another Apple blog is apparent angst over a transfer of guilt, or responsibility, due our consumption of under-priced recreational electronics. Lots exasperated: "if the iPod was made here it would cost $1500...you'd never buy it".

We have coasted for too long under the spell cast by corporate hypnotists, and have allowed the production of most consumer products to be shifted to other nations. Most of it to China. Most employment in the production of components and goods in the U.S. gone.

Consumer action can make a difference, but it seem we've lost the ability to do what's 'right' or best for the furture.

Few, if any, Corp BOD's demonstrate allegiance to the USA, other than as a place to collect dividends and hangar their jets. Now the SCOTUS have given these folks have the 'right' to spend as much as they want on elections. So much good to look forward to.

So, the headline should have been "Durbin presses 30 companies - including Apple - to respond on their relations with companies in China"