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Your post is laced with elitism. You automatically toss everyone you does not believe in your point of view in the "uneducated sheeple" group. What you fail to understand in your world economic view is that all economies are not the same. There is a major difference between China's or Mexico's standard of living and the USA. Because of this difference in standard of living we as a country have additional costs that other countries do not. Up until several years ago the majority of these costs was born by the business community due to the labor movement in the last century. To compete with these other countries which has no labor laws to speak of one of two things must happen. either they must raise their standard of living or we must decrease our standard of living. Since they do not have a freely elected democratic government and they do not need to listen to the people, these countries will listen to the "power" which is the ruling elite who has no interest in raising the standard of living for the masses because that directly affects their power base. So therefore for globalization to work in an unfree undemocratic world we must lower our standard of living to compete on price. This means a loss in pensions, health care, sick days, pay and an increase in taxes by the government that must increasingly shoulder the costs of retirement, health care etc because we do live in a democratic country and our leaders must listen to us they will continue to vote to keep our standard of living for as long as they can which means higher and higher taxes.