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"With our trade deficit? With the vanishing industries to slave labor countries?"

The trade deficit will heal itself once we break foreign interventions from continuing to keep our Dollar propped up at artificially high levels (e.g. vis-a-vis the Chinese Yuan-Dollar peg and Indian national bank hording of Dollars).

As for slave labor, as I wrote earlier in this thread...just How cheap will such labor appear next to free robots?

How many "slaves" are going to stand on street corners to compete against free newspaper vending machines/robots? How many "slaves" are going to wait around in office complexes in order to compete against Coke machines in selling soft drinks?

How many "slaves" are going to compete with robot automotive welders and robot car painters?

I think that you'll find that so-called "cheap" labor looks very, very pricey compared to automated solutions such as robots and vending machines.

In fact, the *ideal* for manufacturing is to completely automate a process.

Well, even with "cheap" labor, you can't beat that ideal of a fully automated process.

Which is to say, how are low-paid Chinese going to be able to compete with free American robot labor?

The trade deficit will heal itself once we break foreign interventions from continuing to keep our Dollar propped up at artificially high levels. . .

The dollar is a fiat entity, based on nothing but comparative values and believe. The medium of exchange should not be traded as a de facto commdity.

How cheap will such labor appear next to free robots?

Slave labor can't compete with robots, once they are made and programed. Question who makes them, who develops the programing for them and who are we dependent on to repair and replace them. Not to mention that robots are not happening to any significant extent and have not started making the millions of items we import and have come to depend on.

How many "slaves" are making our fabrics, sewing it into clothing, making all other apparel and foot wear, making the internal workings of the machinery our economy is now based on, the components used in our military weapons and transport, and all the items we use and buy every day?

Where are the robots that compete with that? And if they are there and being used, why aren't they programed to place "Made in America" on the items they are making.