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"As to the residents unwillingness to work for $4/hour,"

How much is minimum wage again?

"But that would not have been possible without the U.S. having a stance toward open trade borders."

What does open trade borders have to do with a foriegn company buying a plant in the US? Nothing, that happened even before the trade borders were opened.

"the answer is to retrain the workers"

Retrain the to do what? There are only a limited number of service related jobs that can be created. If you look at the number of doctors that are not American, you will notice that that number has increased. A job is a job, they should be kept here. When do we say enough to them being sent overseas? When the number of employed and available jobs is over whelmingly less that the number of people unemployed? How about trying to avoid that from happening?

[ArGee]

How much is minimum wage again?

That's that stupid law they wrote to reduce the number of starting jobs, reduce the number of businesses working in the U.S., and curry favor with the liberals.

Retrain the to do what? There are only a limited number of service related jobs that can be created

There are active sectors here in the U.S., with new ones being created on a regular basis as people think up new ideas.

You don't need a wide open field, you just need to be better than others.

No guarantees in a free system, but if you will work, you can work.

Shalom.