I hope you can now see how and why I consider yours to be a faulty argument. If not, please correct me or say why.
I didnt make the argument. In fact the statement above about "I am sick of Americans thinking that they are intitled to employment without competition" is not something I believe I said in my post or anywhere on this thread. So unless you went into the archives and found something I said in the past, please correct the record. I didnt say it.
This issue is troubling me more and more. Generally I favor Globalism and the right of corporation to spend its money on resources the way it prefers. However, I'm beginning to see that belief has consequences and we as a country need to figure out what we are going to do with huge chunks of people in their 40's and 50's who due to low wages in Asia are now faced with oblivion unless they reinvent themselves.
It is an issue that has really always been part of the world. In the thirties, farmers were severely affected by drought. In the fifties and sixties, auto workers were affected by the import of foreign cars. In the mid 18th century, sheep and flax farmers were devastated by the increased growth and the improvements in the area of cotton harvesting.
The issue is much larger than *offshoring*. Should technological improvements be halted so that jobs can be protected? Where would the world be today if cotton poduction had been controlled? (Scratching themselves to death at their computer terminals, LOL).
It is not the place of the government to solve the problem of layed-off workers. The country provides 39 weeks of unemployment and most people know when a layoff is coming.
It is the job of parents to teach their children that there are no guarantees in life and that they must be adaptible and they must be experienced in basic survival.