Nope. Nothing to do with it. Regulations or not, China would still have .37 an hour average wages while we have a much higher standard of living. Not because of regulation.. but because of supply and demand working within the market. Negotiations and competition drove wages and benefits until guys like you decided to find someway to point blame at anything possible for selling out America for profit. At least the Rosenbergs were executed honestly for their version of it.
So, you think I should be executed. Thanks for the sentiment.
But I ask again, if you do not support free trade, what do you support? Central planning? Are you a commie?
Incidentally, we would pay some jobs a lot less, except that there's this minimum wage thing. That's not supply and demand, and it's not free market. Instead, it's a legislated cost of labor - that you deny. And it's just the tip of the iceberg. What we have here is far, far from a free market.
That's the biggest load of BS I've ever read on this site. Bring the corporate tax rate to 15% or less and kill the regulation and you'll see this country's GDP skyrocket.
Our labor comes from automation now. Get some new skills - protectionism is for looters.
I would only point out that the First President, AKA the Father of the Country, was also named George.
I am at post 22 and you are doing your "GO PAT GO" rendition. I wonder how many posts I have to go before someone starts blaming the Mexicans for devaluing our "way of life".????