So, Step 1: Deport all illegal aliens.
We have just found jobs for 10 million Americans. 11 million more jobs to find.
Step 2: Put a tariff on goods coming in from all those countries with unfair trade practices (yes, that would be China). At the same time, make it easier for American businesses to expand.
Less Chinese goods will be sold because now they are priced higher. American factories will pick up the difference.
Deporting illegals is a good start, but many of those jobs would simply be outsourced to other countries where the labor costs are lower (frighteningly, the chart notes the high cost of labor here................and we are flooded with illegals.......which if illegals are doing the jobs of Americans, then that cost of labor wouldn't be an issue, which leads me to conclude this whole line about illegals doing work is simply B.S.).
As of right now, thats not considered an unfair labor practice.
You would see the great American exporting of all jobs.
Yep, that's an enormous hurtle.
But I wonder what would happen if every state was a right-to-work state, and if health insurance was market-driven, and if the government was not so tax-and-regulate crazy.
I know, I'm just dreaming.
Using that rationale, all of those jobs will be exported eventually. There is no way we can compete with the labor costs of China and India and the rest of the emerging economies. In fact, China and India also have educated, skilled workers that work for far less than in this country.
If labor costs is the determinant factor, then there is no way we can compete unless our labor wages decline signifcantly. The mulitinational corporations are exporting whole industries, including the latest technology, to these countries making their workers just as productive as our own. And skilled labor jobs can also be exported.