My response to " Why doesn't GM Sell Crack"

My response to: Why doesn’t GM Sell Crack?
Written by Michael More


“Why doesn’t GM Sell Crack” is an essay that Michael More wrote, concerning the Outsourcing of American jobs to other countries. He believes that we should not send our jobs overseas just so huge companies can make a little more profit. He strongly argues the need for jobs to stay in America. He goes into explaining a time when he met the CEO of some large American company that made office supplies and was based in Taiwan. He asked the question to this CEO “How much is enough?” in which he replies “Enough what?” “How much is enough profit” he replied, “There’s no such thing as enough!” the CEO says.
He goes on describing how GM made nearly $7billion but wanted to move one of its factories from Ohio to Mexico just so they could make $ .1billon in profit. He then asks the question, “Why doesn’t GM sell crack?” if they want to make money they should sell crack. He talks about how much safer it is, he says that more people die in car wrecks then from doing crack.
I think that that he might not have used the right illustration for his essay. For one thing selling crack is illegal, selling cars is not. I think that he might have done this to make a more significant impression on the reader. I agree with him on the point that he is making, I think that we should not outsource are jobs to other countries. I think that we should keep them in the USA. I know that we will probably never be able to stop job from going overseas. I can’t even imagine what the people in a small town like the one in Ohio would do if such a large company moved from their town. So many people would lose their jobs it would be a disaster!

Writing Strategies

#1: I think that his voice is not very effective in this essay. He gives a lot of reasons that i dont think even match with what he is trying to say. comparing GM with selling crack is not going to work.

#2: He does it by showing that GM just moves all its jobs over seas just so they can make a little more money. So then he ask the question why dont they just sell crack instead? they could make a lot more money doing that.