[agere_contra]

Ever wonder why the wealth generating machines of the usa (manufacturing) are being moved overseas?

There's no conspiracy - it's just simple market forces. Some people abroad make things cheaper than seems to be possible in the West. Net result: the West gets to buy neat stuff cheaper from Indians, Koreans and Chinese-based producers rather than buy expensive stuff from feather-bedded/subsidised internal producers.

[lucysmom]

There's no conspiracy - it's just simple market forces. Some people abroad make things cheaper than seems to be possible in the West.

And yet the European Union (part of the west, I believe) has about 3 times the number of manufacturing jobs the US does.