[Chu Gary]

"When you can use slave wages to compete against regular wages, the regular paying jobs lose."

You clearly have never been to Asia. A person can survive just fine on about US $300 per month; this allows them to lease a small flat, feed their family and exist. If one or two other members of the family also are working, they will save money to better their lives. This is the reason that people from Mexico and Central America sneak into the U.S. for the agricultural and manual labor in the U.S. during the Summer; the money they make (small by our standards) will allow their family to survive very well til the following Summer.

[A CA Guy]

When you own nothing and everything is under price control, I guess you could live on nearly air officially.
Your quality of life is horrible, but not having anything, you wouldn't know it.

There is a lot of oppression there. A friend there in China saw some guy who stoled a purse from a tourist get his hands cut off last year.

Plus they are aborting daughters all over the place.