In 1972, the Republican Party Platform stated: "We deplore the practice of locating plants in foreign countries solely to take advantage of low wage rates… We will take action to discourage such unfair and disruptive practices that result in the loss of American jobs." Yet, when we fast forward nearly fifty years since those important statements were made, clearly, we see that the Republican party has completely disowned those patriotic sentiments to be replaced instead with the corporate pursuit of profit, above all, and therefore subsequently the millions of good American jobs so lost, in order to thereby fill the coffers of multinational companies with extraordinary profits, utilizing, quite frequently, the cheap labor rates and easy environment regulations that foreign countries offer, in order to feed those foreign lands with desirable capital investment from those multinational companies.
Sure, plenty of Americans are employed, but far too often, the jobs that Americans are employed at, are skimpy in their pay, derelict in providing good and affordable healthcare, delinquent in providing a full and steady forty hours of week for employees, and abusive in dictating to their workers the hours, days, and times that their employees are mandated to work. The bottom line is that people need money in order to survive in this country, and with labor unions essentially eviscerated by the powers-to-be, then those so seeking work, are often left to take what they can take, or simply have no work at all; of which, the bottom line is that millions of hard working and dedicated employed Americans, are considered not to be worthy of being paid a living wage.
When one's own country determines that its own people should not and do not deserve a fair opportunity to make a living wage, but instead insists that the biggest and most powerful corporations that rule the roost, are entitled to make their profit first and foremost, any way that they so desire and thereby without any constraints placed upon them; then by permitting these corporations to have their way, the end result can only be catastrophic for a wide swath of Americans, while primarily being of benefit to only those that are within the inner circle of those multinationals, along with those that finance them.
Look, it doesn't take a genius to understand that the wages so having to be paid within third world nations are going to be a fraction of what such wages would necessitate in the United States, and further that the necessary environmental laws which are required so that corporations are thereby compelled to take into proper consideration, that they have an ethical responsible to be a good steward of this earth, can more easily be circumvented in those nations that are not strong and vibrant democracies, for they are instead typically autocratic in nature and often corrupt.
All political parties make promises, but in this particular case, we can see that fundamentally the Republican party has sold out its fellow countrymen, so as to serve and pay full obeisance to those multinational companies, and in return for doing so, well placed politicians and well placed individuals are the beneficiaries of such; so that these select people, are able to thereby live high on the hog, whereas many of their domestic brethren, humbly feed at the limited trough of despair and loss.