[luckydevi]

The solution is not to impose more costs on someone else, the solution is to reduce costs here. Make it cheaper to due business here. Get rid of the government drag on our economy instead of imposing it on someone else That will make our labor more attactive to foreign companies. They will come here instead of us going there. The answer isn't more government regulation it is less government regulation.

[oceanview]

even if you cut tax rates to zero, and stripped all worker protections, you cannot equalize the costs of a first world worker with a third world worker, unless you want to totally throw the idea of standard of living out the window. and that of course is the crux of it, our elites don't much like the middle class and their standard of living, since that appears as a "cost" on their balance sheet. those private jets are expensive you know.

[bvw]

Yes that is a solution, or a good part of one.

Yet ... it's like saying that the solution is that the patient needs a heart-lung transplant. Fine. Now we need a surgeon, none such exist yet, an opeartory -- none that are can handle such a procedure, a donor! (who is the volunteer?), and all the other support.

Nevertheless, here it is, upon us. Survival time against the tsunami! It's here, now. Good luck to all.