[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Unemployment is caused by government spending, not outsourcing. Foreign trade benefits both sides, in the aggregate.

If our deficit was under control, we would have full employment, like in the Reagan years, and even under Clinton. We even had full employment under Bush, with all of his spending.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I strongly disagree.

For an entire generation we have sold off US factories, and sent those jobs (millions of them) to other countries.

Many to China.

A couple months ago, it turned out that China according to some reports, now exports more than America and is growing.

We need to bring back US manufacturing.

Now.

[null and void]

Unemployment is caused by government spending, not outsourcing.

In part. There's also minimum wage laws that remove the first few rungs from the success ladder, and excessive child labor laws, together they help prevent a growing youth from developing a work ethic.

There's the H-1B, L-1, J-1 and related visa programs that exclude some Americans from jobs and depress the wages of those lucky enough to find one.

And if the wage and indentured servitude provisions of the worker visa programs aren't enough the visa workers are exempt from ObamaCare expenses!

Then there is the vast thicket of regulations where no detail of a business is too petty, no penalty too great...