[PGR88]

I notice a lot of Freepers like to blame FREE TRADE for loss of US jobs to China/India, etc...

If you want to really understand why jobs go to China, read this article closely. Understand what tort law does to insurance rates and worker-comp. Look at the role of unions in manufacturing. Look at the costs of Govt imposed health care, taxes, etc...

[algernonpj]

I notice a lot of Freepers like to blame FREE TRADE for loss of US jobs to China/India, etc...

If you want to really understand why jobs go to China, read this article closely. Understand what tort law does to insurance rates and worker-comp. Look at the role of unions in manufacturing. Look at the costs of Govt imposed health care, taxes, etc...

These Freepers are most likely referring to so called 'free trade' agreements, designed and enforced by NWO globalists. These agreements place American workers and companies (burdened by onerous regulation and taxation) in an untenable competition, interfere with our national sovereignty, and over-ride our immigration law.

(Part of the reason we are importing 125,000 new legal workers (guest workers and green cards) each month while unemployment as measured in Reagan's time hovers near 25% is visas incorporated into various free trade agreements and regulated by the WTO.)

Even if the onerous tax and regulation burden were removed, an American business hiring American workers could not compete with corporations using workers in a country where you can hire 15 - 20 workers for the price of one American. ... Unless you are willing to give up our standard of living and devolve into a third world country.