In 2014, David Perdue wanted to become the next US Senator from Georgia. Unfortunately, he came with some baggage that too many Republicans seem to be carrying these days: he made lots of money by sending US jobs overseas. More unfortunately, he won.

When it comes to making money vs. building up the US economy, too many US businessmen (including Donald Trump) have been willing to do the former. Not all by any means - in fact, most stay right here in the good ol' USA and do just fine, thank you. We've seen a number of entrepreneurs on Shark Tank who said no to a shark's deal because it would have required moving their manufacturing to China. We applaud those Americans who stay put and encourage you to support their businesses.

On the flip side, though, we encourage you not to support those who deliberately sent US jobs overseas in order to make a buck. Particularly those who then want to run for public office in America. We may support those folks for a political office in China, but we do not intend to support them for political office in the United States.

(Perdue image from politico.com)
Which brings us back to David Perdue. During that 2014 campaign, Politico.com revealed statements made during a 2005 deposition in which Perdue said he "spent most of my career" outsourcing. Asked to defend those comments during a campaign stop in Buckhead, Perdue replied, "Defend it? I'm proud of it."

Two examples of this outsourcing experience that Mr. Perdue discussed in his deposition included:

Kurt Salmon Associates, a management consulting firm that specialized in the outsourcing of manufacturing for apparel companies. Perdue became partner there after helping footwear companies develop the ability to import shoes from a variety of locations throughout the Far East
Consumer goods company Sarah Lee, where Perdue built an Asian operation from the ground up

(The deposition related to the bankruptcy of Pillowtex, a North Carolina based textile firm, where Perdue served as Chief Executive Officer during 2002-2003. Pillowtex's bankruptcy resulted in the layoff of ~4,800 workers in North Carolina alone, at that time the largest layoff in the state's history.)

Perdue said the outsourcing he was involved with was the result of bad tax policy and too many regulations in the United States and he hoped to change that when he got to Washington. What a convenient excuse. As we mentioned earlier, thousands of US businesses are doing just fine without having outsourced their US jobs. Our tax policies and regulatory environment haven't made those firms unprofitable.

And if he still intends to make the US look more like China, where the pollution is so bad people were wearing masks in the big cities before Covid and the 2008 Olympic Committee was worried about athletes' health in Beijing, or where many workers are making pennies a day and working in sweatshop conditions, we'll say no thank you, Mr. Perdue. The Communist Chinese may be ok with their citizens living that way, but that's not how we do it in this country.

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