Let's face it. Almost everything we see was made in some remote third world country. Large American economic behemoths setting up factories where a villiage once was. Employing the villagers for a dollar a day so that they can make shoes or other products that are too "labor intesive" to prduce in the states. The workers have neither safety procautions nor do they have job security.

.....the classic American little red wagon will not be made in Chicago Ill anymore - they are moving production to CHINA.

My brother visited China on business a few months ago, his first time there.
He was toured around the production facility and he saw workers who were not paid much money, but they're given food, uniforms for work, housing and health care.

The airline had lost the bro's luggage so the host company's liason took him shopping and paid for a shirt, pants, underwear, socks and a belt - total cost about $35 American.

See, their whole economy is SO unlike ours that we cannot compete fairly - the playing field isn't anywhere NEAR level.

I'm becoming more and more of the opinion that if the work needing to be done in America were left in the hands of the work ethic of the general american populous.. there would be an economic collapse.

That asside,

Yes their economy's condition allows them to undercut us by a large amount, so american manual laborers are being cut out and have to look for new work.

A long time ago companies decided to remove the working class from the US, and instead employ foreign workers at a considerable proffit. Our super-bloated commercial economy is BASED on that. China is nothing new, it's just a lot more plentiful. It will continue to be so until China moves the entirity of production in-house, and becomes the service provider, and America is forced to do it's own menial work, or buy everything from China. In the end, there will always be work to be done by Americans, since every American needs a place to live, food, clothing, housing etc.. What China -will- do is flood our economy (as it already is) with astronomically cheaper alternatives to products made by major american companies which are already overcharging for them. In the end, America really wins in terms of physical wealth, and China will probably become a bigger world power as well.

Americans are losing jobs to these big Coporations, that Bush supports. It`s all about money these days!!!!! It seems like this today:Big Coporations first and the people second. This is wrong indeed!!!!! Too many jobs are going overseas!! It is Bullsh**!!!!! We need a change, a change for the better, a change that will help us, not harm us. Yes, Yes, Change, Indeed, We need is a Change Indeed!

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I wonder if anyone ever thought about this: the chinese have long aspired to becoming a nuclear power in the world, the problem being that they didn't have the economy to support it. now our corporations have given it to them.
anyone who thinks that the chinese do not hate the U.S. as much as during the mao regime had better think again..these people (chinese gov't) are dangerous. anyone up for being nuked by our corporate-fed comrades?[/b]

Outsourcing is a dead issue that was never a concern and never will be.

Even Kerry has stopped talking about it, hoping people will forget that he declared it such a big problem when it was nothing.

Just to be sure, roll the facts:
1. Government statisticians reckon that outsourced jobs are responsible for well under 1% of those signed up as unemployed.
http://www.economist.com/World/na/di...ory_id=2501977

2. We have economically, provably resulted in a net gain of jobs here when measuring countries outsourcing here to our outsourcing to other countries:
http://www.economist.com/World/na/di...ory_id=2572245

Remember this is from a magazine that endorsed Clinton over Dole. So it can't be smeared as right-wing...

3. The obvious job recovery is in full swing. The last few months have seen a tremondous amount of jobs created after a natural downturn. Bush's tax cuts certainly helped propel it.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic...b-growth_x.htm

Outsourcing is not a concern...at all. The Democrat Party always need a bogeyman when out of power.
In 1984 it was the big bad Japanese taking over all our companies.
In 1988 it was robots and machines displacing American workers.
In 1992 it was Mexico stealing all our jobs.
In 1996 Clinton's numbers were good, so no bogeyman.
In 2000 After 8 years of Democrat rule, a bogeyman would probably make Gore look bad, so none here either.
In 2004, a Republican (Bush) in office so bogeyman is China and India stealing all our jobs.

But now that won't work, they'll have to find a new villain, my guess is the Saudis.
Who will fall for this again? I think regular Americans are smart enough not to keep falling for the same fearmongering BS.

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