[waterstraat]

What exactly do you do when you "leave the job market?" Stop eating?

When there arent any jobs, you stop looking. The jobs are all in china and india, and they dont employ americans.

It is up the rest of americans who still have jobs to make up the difference. Not only do you have to pay more taxes(to make up those who no longer pay taxes) but you will also have to pay more for welfare, food, clothing, shelter, etc. for those whose jobs went overseas.

Until and unless, american companaies start opening up factories in america, and when they stop out sourcing and hiring H1-B visa people, you will be expected to continue to pay up.

Free trade is not free.

Someone has to pay, and it is not going to be the global companies who are permantently laying off people. government spending is not going down because there are fewer taxpayers, it is going up, with fewer workers paying.

[Steven W.]

that is the most pathetic accumulation of garbage I've ever read outside a Puplava column - seriously, get a life & get a job. better yourself. improve your skills. but don't adopt a pathetic liberal line "wo is me" - this is America & you can do whatever you want as long as you're charging a fair price for a desired product.

[Ford Fairlane]

Caterpillar's smaller construction trucks are now being designed in India by contract engineering firms - they are even cheaper than the H1B contract employees they had been using in this country

(The trucks are still being built here, but that may change when the contract with the UAW expires next year)