(CNN) -- Americans have become used to the fact that most of the jobs created by Apple are in China. We know that Steve Jobs told President Barack Obama that "those jobs aren't coming back." Recently, an executive at Apple said that the company has no obligation to solve America's problems by moving some of those jobs back to the United States. As a business, Apple has a right to fear that moving the assembly work from China to the United States will entail raising labor costs so high as to make the company less competitive and profitable. But for it to say that it has no obligation to help solve America's problems is completely unacceptable.
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Apple says the company has no obligation to help solve America's problems
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Does Apple owe anything to Uncle Sugar? Clyde Prestowitz says yes
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Prestowitz: Apple should tell suppliers it wants more components made in the U.S.
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Apple can also move some of its assembly operations to Mexico, Prestowitz says
As Apple is trying to get out of the recent controversy surrounding its suppliers' labor practices in @placeholder, where workers put in more than 60 hours a week, the world's most highly valued company would do well to consider how best to spend and invest its $100 billion cash pile.