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You tell me what you think and I will tell you what I seen and experienced.

I was born in 1945 and started working part time when I was 15 and in high school. My experience is typical of the other 430 that graduated with me and those in the south and probably the nation.

We had those evil tariffs and unions that encouraged the Corporations to invest their money in their homeland and protected not only American workers but those American companies who thought it was good business to invest in the homeland.

Believe it or not but these giant corporations made good money and high profits back then also.

Then you had some who decided they could increase those profits make a lot more money if they could get to the cheap overseas labor market but only if they could sell their products back here to those well paid American workers.

They also needed to convince the American public that them investing American dollars in foreign countries and making them strong was really not unpatriotic, but a good thing or else the public might not go along with their plan and that would hurt business.

So they lobbied [bought]the politicians they could and got all those evil tariffs that leveled the playing field for American businesses and workers eliminated forcing not only the American worker but those American businesses to compete against them with their cheap labor and with their almost zero overhead, taxes and regulations and other incentives heaped on them by foreign governments.

People from my father's generation, although he didn't have a high school education, could provide for his family a home food, clothing, medical care and transportation with out the help of government.

Those from mine could do the same only at a higher standard of living.

I and those that graduated with me that didn't have go to collage still had plenty of good paying jobs available.

. Like me their wives didn't have to work but hey had a nice three or four bedroom homes, two cars, boat,maybe RVs,clothing, education for their good health insurance, retirement investments and packages able to take vacations etc you name it all provided by good job opportunities and some hard work.

The federal government wasn't needed or wanted to provide any of these things. All we wanted was for them to stay out of our lives. We thought it much too big back then.

Now it requires $2,000,000,000,000 a year and is growing in leaps and we think we are in contol and a free people?

Then came the Federal Government at the urging of a few of it's Big Business donors. Typical of the government it decided to fix what wasn't broken.

So they done away with the tariffs that had been in place and used to finance the government before income tax and used to protect American business and workers from foreign slave labor and foreign governments who subsidized these businesses.

So those businesses that believed in America first and investing dollars in her future to make her strong where forced to follow the lead dictated by those few "anything goes for a dollar corporations" and their political lackeys.

Now you have young couples with college degrees both trying to work sometimes two jobs for grocery store wages, with no benefits ,living in a house trailer signing up for government health care because they can't afford their own.

It wasn't just blue collar jobs lost when those factories left but all kinds of managerial, engineering and research jobs.

We haven't reach bottom yet. It wasn't enough to encourage the companies to leave with the good paying jobs and invest in the future of our enemies, but to keep the wages down for their patrons, the government opens our borders and floods the job market that is left with cheap labor so they can lower and keep wages down of the jobs and workers. Then those workers a lot of whom don't want citizenship haul those future dollars out of the country also.

You couldn't devise a better plan to lower the standard of living or increase the dependency of a people on their government if you tried.

. I know some of the products we buy are a lot cheaper but not the important ones you need to live like a home ,food, utilities,education and health care.

I know those who are doing well won't believe me but that's okay just give it a little more time it hasn't gotten to you yet. But it will.You are in competition with the third world whether you know it or not.

If you are making a good living and have good benefits as an employee or have a small business and you are making a decent profit there is somebody who is in another part of the world who is willing to do what you do or provide what you provide at a much cheaper price than you are.

The only way you will be able to compete is to lower your standard of livng and be willing to accept those standards he is willing to accept.