I think you misunderstand my point.
Henry Ford's idea of paying his workers well enough that they could buy the cars they made was a marvelous one, but I can assure you that this idea would have gone nowhere if he also had to pay a myriad of overhead costs that had nothing to do with the production of automobiles.
Please understand I have had my own bisiness for over ten years now. I know the overhead costs you are talking about. I pay them. I have to pay for FUTA that I will never get a penny from. When I stopped hiring new peopel a few years back I was able to keep everyone employed that I had employed until they either found new jobs or had retired (one person was retiring). Now I do not liek all teh regulations and all the other taxes taht an employer must pay but that is the cost of having employees in the USA. I sold what I sold in the USA so I did not object to those costs. I have lived in the USA my entire life. I am a loyal conservative and I realize that the currtent trade envirornment is destroying too many Americans's lives. It is also destroying a whole lot of economic activity in thsi nation. I ahve a real problem with people who think they have a right to shop the world for the lowest price for anything and then bring that into the USA. They have to pay what duties are imposed by Congress ande signed into law by teh President.
I also have a real problem with Republicans who do not recognize theeconomy is in a "jobless recovery" it has list jobs constitently this year. This will bite GWB if he does not make it his issue.