[dp0622]

Ninety-six percent of the world’s customers are outside the U.S. To create more jobs here, America needs to sell more goods and services over there.”

you lie!!!!!

How many American jobs did NAFTA create. How many manufacturing jobs did opening the door to China create?

et tu Cruz?

[factoryrat]

NATFA and favorable trade status with china has destroyed more industry in the US, and nearly as much in Canada and Mexico, as any actual destruction caused by a real shooting war could have caused.

As for the IT/tech workers who have to train their H1-B replacements under penalty of lost pay; you’re a day late and a dollar short to this outsourcing/replacement slave party. This has been going on in numerous industries since the mid 90’s, but everyone ignored it until the H1-B lobby worked their way up the food chain.

Next stop will be H1-B replacements for lawyers, financial sector workers, banking management, and ultimately government employees.

[arthurus]

Actual free trade including removing the tax and regulatory burdens on American industry would put American industry and American labor back in the driver's seat. EXCEPT FOR the inordinate burden of regulation ant taxes and the uncertainty created by the ever changing and increasing regulations, American workers are still the most cost efficient in the world for an employer. Industry is not decamping our shores because of the small wages overseas. Industry is leaving because those low wages combined with high taxation and pervasive expensive regulation makes production offshore more profitable or enables a company to return to profitability. The wage scale is not the important number. The cost of labor per unit of output is the important measure. By that measure America and Americans win, except of course, that America is taxing and regulating its industry right out of the country. It is coming to the point where wage rates in Indonesia that equal or are higher than wage rates in Illinois would still be more profitable in Indonesia.

[cornelis]

What we need for jobs here is a bank specifically for exports and imports! : 0

[Bob434]

careful- if you don’t 100% agree with everything Ted stands for, a popular forum member will threaten to have to kicked off the site- Apparently not agreeing 100% with Ted on everything here on FR is a no no- just a heads up as I’ve run into being threatened with a ban by him