[BIGZ]

Labor accounts for aprox 10% of costs. Where did the jobs go?

High taxes, EEOC, Workers Comp., The Enviromental BS, OSHA, Litigation, Unions, Medical costs, Government intervention, Affirmative Action, Local intervention, high energy costs, on and on and on.

[Eighth Square]

You Got it! In a "Frigging" nutshell!!

[Monty22]

Amusing how Exxonmobil, who is raking it in with the energy prices like never before, is offshoring a massive chunk of its IT (including me) off to Canada.

The system's broken, badly.

[GOP_1900AD]

This is the first non knee jerk response in the chain of them... kudos. I think that when the orthodoxy get snippy about critiques of open borders and globalist economics, they assume that the critique is a leftist one. Nothing could be further from the truth. My own critique of these issues is straight out of Edmund Burke. In order to move myself any further to the true Right [a distinction, Vs. say, the faux Jacobin "right" and the faux Fascist "right"] I'd have to get into a time machine and go out on my steed, sword in hand, wearing armor. ;)

[arasina]

Ding ding ding! A winner! Anti-capitalistic legislation is at the root of decline in higher paying jobs.