Bernie Sanders Quotes

But on the other hand, there are many corporations who have turned their backs on the American worker, who have said, if I can make another nickel in profit by going to China and shutting down in the United States of America, that's what I will do.

The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply being screwed, or whether one looks at this in terms of corporations who are benefiting, the fact is it is certainly not helping the American economy.

America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen.

Globalization: We get cheaper running shoes—You lose your job!

One of the major forces driving the decline in wages and the concentration of wealth at the top is the offshoring of American jobs overseas - reducing wages not only in manufacturing but also across the economy.

We're not going to let our companies be raided by other countries where we lose all our jobs, we don't make our product anymore. It's very sad.

We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that.

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?

High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention.

The first reactions from Germany and German industry was quite negative. People right from the start were saying that we will steal technology and take it away and move the plant to India and use low cheap labor to compete.

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

You cannot buy an American telephone, TV set or VCR. This is a part of America that has gone abroad and will never come back again.

Unfortunately, we have lost our manufacturing capacity.

There are practices which most people believe should be ended. They include … the shifting of actual production form one locality or region to another in pursuit of the cheapest wage scale.

I think there's a big difference between the impact of trade agreements on corporate America and the impact on Mr. and Mrs. America. Corporate America has adjusted to them by investing lots of capital offshore... What we're doing is we're exporting jobs and importing products instead of exporting products and keeping jobs.

Technology has been advancing so fast that the number of jobs globally in manufacturing is declining. There is no way that Trump can bring significant numbers of manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.

I have lived my whole life just outside Youngstown, Ohio. We watched the steel mills close and 50,000 jobs disappear in the late 1970s. We watched businesses move overseas throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.

The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia.

My dad was in furniture for 35 years. He got run out of furniture when everything went to China, went overseas. Manufacturing in the country broke down. Everything left.

We have relied on China for far too long to provide cheap labor and goods at the expense of America and our workers.

Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological innovation destroyed industrial jobs or exported them to low-wage economies. The loss of work had a devastating impact.

The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.