Glenn Thompson Helps Ship Jobs Overseas Before Complaining About Unemployment
U.S. Representative Glenn Thompson has made some loud sounds of protest against unemployment recently. “Thompson Decries New Unemployment Figure of 10.2%”, reads the headline to a recent press release from Congressman Thompson’s office.
If Representative Thompson is truly so upset unemployment, though, why has he introduced legislation to the House of Representatives that would help corporations avoid employing workers in the United States of America?
H.R.3565 and H.R.3566, both written by Glenn Thompson, would exempt certain chemicals (pellets of dry adhesive copolyamide and a powder called Orgasol) from ordinary import tariffs. Though the chemicals could be manufactured here in the United States, an American company based in Thompson’s home state of Pennsylvania has decided to try to import them rather than produce them in manufacturing plants that would provide American jobs. They’ve decided to ship the related jobs overseas, and Glenn Thompson has decided to help them do it, by making the import process especially cheap.
It’s this sort of activity that has diminished manufacturing here in the United States, and contributed to our current state of high unemployment. So, when Glenn Thompson gets in the mood to complain about unemployment rates above ten percent, he might do better to pause, look at himself in the mirror, and ask how his own activities in Congress are contributing to the problem.
