[Nik Naym]

I won’t deny that many many manufacturing jobs have gone overseas. A lot of this is due as much to over regulation and over taxation as it is to labor costs. However, your post addressed “auto” jobs. Off the top of my head I can not think of one car sold here that is made in “third world countries” by “slave labor”.

(Unless you want to count Mexico as third world, and then there are Dodge Pickups, and quite probably some GM and Ford products as well made there and sold here.)

[mysterio]

A lot of this is due as much to over regulation and over taxation as it is to labor costs.

Agreed on the high taxes part. But :

Would you live downstream of a factory with no pollution controls?
Would you allow your kid to work at a factory with no OSHA?

I wouldn't.

And that's the slave labor we have to compete with.

And I disagree that it's not mostly labor costs. Pay a worker 36 cents an hour in China or $2 an hour in Mexico. And you think that's not the main reason those jobs have been shipped out?