[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?

[Nik Naym]

Again,

What car is being made in China and sold here?

And what companies are making cars in Mexico for sale here?

As far as my “kid” working at a factory with no OSHA, yes.

If you look at the rate of death and injury on the job before OSHA and after OSHA, you will find that the rate of decline (increase in safety, if you will) DID NOT CHANGE.

Should I go on about some of the hyper stupidity of EPA or do you get my point?

Also, I said OVER regulation. Where did I say we should have NO rules or regulations at all?