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Government has way too much regulations on so many levels. Also, it's not the wild wooly days of early industry and I think unions do more harm than good. There are so much practical things that can be done first before anyone starts talking about tariffs and passings laws against outsourcing. However, government gets so much revenue from companies paying off fines, paying for this and that that they won't address these basic issues. Another thing about low priced items is related to the illegal immigration issue but that's another thread altogether.

275 - "Government has way too much regulations on so many levels. Also, it's not the wild wooly days of early industry"

Ah, you are correct. However, thats what our free-traitors are arguing for.

And doing away with government regulations won't change the fact that I can get an adequate 2 bedroom apartment in Bejing or Delhi or Cairo for $10 per month. No amount of regulation reduction will compensate for that. Their cost of living must be compensated for. I could live very comfortably for $100 per month in many 3rd world countries I have lived and worked, once I learned the 'local' 'market' prices. They don't have 'fixed' pricing. Especially for foreigners/tourists, which is the only thing most Americans ever find out. And you have to learn the local language to understand what they are doing.

Even taking all the regulations and taxes off everything can't reduce the cost of living/production that much, anywhere in the US, though when I first came to Texas from New York, (at the same salary) I figured I got a $3,000 salary increase, just from Tax relief, and for the same rent for a tiny 1 bedroom garageless apartment in New York (garage was $185/month more), I got a 4 bedroom house, with 2 car garage. So it cost me nearly 20 times as much to just park my car, in NYC, as it cost to house me and my family in a 3rd world country.

There is no way we can compete with this.

it's not the wild wooly days of early industry and I think unions do more harm than good

Thus, union membership in private industry is now down to around 13% of the workforce.

But it's not all 'peaches and cream.' As Rudeboy will testify (I think he's in IR)---one generally gets the labor relations one deserves.

There are still quite a few barbarian-type supervisors out there; but you are correct, there are LESS than in the 'bad old days.'