[PositiveCogins]

"Angel Mills is re-employed more efficiently as a massage therapist"
Saturating the market reducing another well paying job to entry level pay. A real nice theory. Communism is a nice theory too but it don't work either. You can't deny the fact
of a trade deficit.

[investigateworld]

The free trade Kool aid drinker find it goes up their nose when the Mexican worker doesn't get paid enough to buy the product of his labor. Thus a "receiving country, the good ole USA" has to be a market for their labors.
In other words, a race to the bottom.

[TheOracleAtLilac]

the average wage was $14.36 an hour before the layoffs, while after retraining it was $11.87 an hour

What many are failing to recognize:

$14.36 an hour was for experienced(?) workers in mature(?) industries.

$11.87 is a starting wage for a new hire in a new position & probably has upward potential

&, it's far better than minimum wage.

[v. crow]

Saturating the market reducing another well paying job to entry level pay. A real nice theory. Communism is a nice theory too but it don't work either. You can't deny the fact of a trade deficit.

If the market for massage therapists were already saturated, then it would not make sense for her employer to hire her. The fact that she was hired seems to indicate that there was a demand or at least a perceived demand for her labor in that position. I'm ignorant of the details of the American trade deficit, so I can't usefully comment on that.

[JasonC]

What in your opinion does a trade deficit have to do with the gains from trade? Is trade profitable inside a country but not outside?

[superiorslots]

Yep I agree
A country full of massage therapist or a country making a viable product through manufaturing. Which country would you rather live in??