Apple would not be the company it is today (biggest in the world) if it applied the logic suggested in this article. The technology sector is notoriously competitive. Look no further than films like “The Social Network” or the endless amount of patent litigation between the industries’ key players. Apple’s success should not be attributed solely to the fact they make hip devices. Plenty of companies make cool devices; Apple’s operations and marketing separate them from the competition (most of whom also manufacture in China, many at Foxconn – a fact conveniently overlooked above). To suggest Apple “bring this work home” and increase their manufacturing costs by a multiple of ten is beyond absurd. Any existing margins would disappear.

Further, if this article truly cared about the American worker, perhaps it would take Apple to task over the status of retail employees in the United States. There are stores in all 50 states with an avg 100 employees per store but Apple Retail employees are NOT unionized. Taking Apple to task over China/Foxconn is easy, short-sighted and ignores basic tenants of the technology sector. Indeed, the Apple/Foxconn issue is a moral issue, one worthy of our attention. This article merely exploits it for political ammunition. For shame.

When American citizens are bypassed, new job growth doesn’t benefit them and the money is often sent out of the country which doesn’t benefit our economy.

Also, the quality of the jobs is omitted from almost all media reports. Most of these new jobs are not on par with what Americans are accustomed to in pay and benefits.

Furthermore, the growth in U.S. population is omitted from the media reports of new job growth. This is also important because newborn American citizens quickly grow into adults that need to earn a living.

Look at the U.S. population clock: http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html

The U.S. gains 1 international migrant worker every 46 seconds. They are taking about half of those jobs and to a lesser degree insourced foreign workers on visa via “our” U.S. Labor Bureau’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification.

But illegals get some of them too. Consider that in Texas, for example, between 2001 and 2007 the Center for Immigration Studies was able to show that 81% of all new job growth went to immigrant workers (both legal and illegal). Natural born American citizens were just passed over though the job growth was touted in the media and used to propel Rick Perry’s run for the presidency until the CIS report came out ending Rick Perry’s chances.

http://cis.org/immigrants-filled-most-new-jobs-in-Texas

Both the red and blue teams play these games with the American public and so does the popular media which is owned by wealthy elitists and large corporations.

If we’re going to have a serious discussion about new job growth, the nonsense needs to end. There is NO recovery for American citizens whom are unemployed, underemployed, and/or underpaid.

But American citizens don’t know this because it is hidden from them by the popular media. It’s called lying by ommission to accomplish political objectives and that falls under propaganda NOT journalism!