[wayoverontheright]

And what’s more, heavy-handed regulations on the part of EPA, OSHA, and the IRS,...... Obamacare, labor unions, double-taxation of foreign profits, racial and gender quotas, legal hamstringing of hiring processes, affirmative action, high corporate income taxes, irrational product liability court decisions, along with entrenched subsidies to favored industries, Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes Oxley, and the massive anti-capitalist funds supporting the vilification of commercial progress and NIMBY anti-construction movements in this country.......... have absolutely nothing to do with the loss of South Carolina manufacturing jobs since 1994.

Nope, it’s NAFTA, and NAFTA alone.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Obamacare, labor unions, double-taxation of foreign profits, racial and gender quotas, legal hamstringing of hiring processes, affirmative action, high corporate income taxes, irrational product liability court decisions, along with entrenched subsidies to favored industries, Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes Oxley, and the massive anti-capitalist funds supporting the vilification of commercial progress and NIMBY anti-construction movements in this country...

Well said and worth repeating. And make that the world's highest corporate taxes.

[Gen.Blather]

-And what’s more, heavy-handed regulations on the part of EPA, OSHA, and the IRS,...... Obamacare, labor unions, double-taxation of foreign profits, racial and gender quotas, legal hamstringing of hiring processes, affirmative action, high corporate income taxes, irrational product liability court decisions, along with entrenched subsidies to favored industries, Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes Oxley, and the massive anti-capitalist funds supporting the vilification of commercial progress and NIMBY anti-construction movements in this country.......... have absolutely nothing to do with the loss of South Carolina manufacturing jobs since 1994.-

That is the most complete summation of the anti-business regulations and agendas I have seen. Nice work.

[Rashputin]

NAFTA made it possible for industries to avoid all the things you mention by moving overseas instead of putting their heavy lobbying money behind fighting them. It's a lot easier to just buy a few more votes for another "free trade" bill than to fight an entrenched bureaucracy and those who are inclined to fight such bureaucracies aren't inclined to support the liberal secular agenda the wealthy heads of industry love so much.

All that crap you list would have never gotten as bad as it has become if industry didn't have the option to move offshore.

[central_va]

Carrie has been in the news because of their planned move to Mexico. The average wage at their plant in IA was $18.00. When asked the CEO couldn’t name any regulations that were causing them to move.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Very well said. Unfortunately, that's one of those mumbo-jumbo, overly-,technical, lawyer-like, "elitist" explanations intended to trick WE THE PEOPLE!

It's so much simpler to run with the mob and blame it all on free trade.