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Explain to me the 'sense of fairness' in employing 5k per year engineers in India that were schooled in US universities on freebee foreign student programs? We've been sold out by greedy multi-corps who use the US military for protection and then screws the US citizens.

We are sold out by the govt. that allows this change to occur. It is easier to promote "freetrade" and "international cooperation" and "most favored nation status" than to stem the torrent of job and manufacturing losses we are seeing.

Realize that the american worker - both white and blue collar and small business owners are supporting the global economy with the sacrifices they are making.

My loss of business ( as a woman owned - small business manufacturer) to China, Singapore or Mexico is a "sacrifice" being made for me by the feds. The Congress is buying the silence and and global peace by paying off cooperating countries by allowing cheap imports to poach on the american economy.

We are all supporting "global peace" by allowing the chinese to produce, without EPA OSHA IRS or FDA oversight, products to sell in the US for cheap. Without govt. interference the US would be as competitive as the foreign pirates and wage-slave employers.

I guess we can call ourselves heroes for being the sacrificial lambs of the new world order.

We are all supporting "global peace" by allowing the chinese to produce, without EPA OSHA IRS or FDA oversight, products to sell in the US for cheap. Without govt. interference the US would be as competitive as the foreign pirates and wage-slave employers.

It is not competition to have US companies under this costly regulation and paying taxes that amount to confiscation.

We are all supporting "global peace" by allowing the chinese to produce, without EPA OSHA IRS or FDA oversight, products to sell in the US for cheap. Without govt. interference the US would be as competitive as the foreign pirates and wage-slave employers.

Bingeaux! And we can thank the mavens of Junk Science and strage economics for this, too.

Amen.

I'm all for free trade too, as long as it is fair on both sides. Retool.

You tell me what technical degree you can hold today that can't be held by someone in India?

The USG can erect tariffs on outsourced labor that equal the regulatory burden and level of subsidy that country received last year. That will make the playing field a bit more fair.

We can WHACK H1B visas all together. We can make foreign investments in capital plant and equipment something that is privately insured, rather than protected in total by the USG.

We can impose tariffs on all goods coming into the US that would be equal to the regulatory burden placed on similar manufacturing in the US. Your 5 cent pencil manufactured in China next to the polluted river and the open pits of graphite waste, it can carry a 25 cent tarriff that would offset the OSHA, EPA, and DHSH regulation costs, plus the Payroll Tax, plus the state B&O tax, plus unemployment.

That, to me is fair, free trade. If we as US corporations have the moral responsibility that goes with diversity, the environment, charity, community outreach, training, roads and infrastructure, noise abatement, picking suppliers in other countries that don't employ children, the the only way that trade becomes 'free' is if we release corporations from those responsibilities. We aren't going to do that, so that means a tariff, and a great stinking big one to boot.