[Moonman62]

...and, our government has a responsibility for creating a profitable environment within our own borders.

True, and the federal government's recent crackdown on corporate management, while the government wastes more money than ever isn't helping any.

[ARCADIA]

while the government wastes more money than ever isn't helping any.

The core issue is neither the reallocation of wealth, nor a differencial in wages. It is our predatory legal system, fed through an infinite slush fund of mandatory insurance coverage that is destroying everything we do and produce here. That is why health care costs continue to climb, why factories continue to leave, and why our individual freedoms continue to be curtailed. Everyone is trying to minimize their exposure to this mandated protections racket.

Until we attack tort reform , and scrap most of mandatory insurance requirements that fund our opposition, we are going to continue to sink.