Nor did we get here by using labor on foreign soil at the expense of Americans...
But that's OK. What comes around goes around. When the Chinese come for India's jobs (in avery short time), who do you think they'll come crying to?...
Unless we find starving life on another planet, globalization for cheap labor is a Ponzi scheme.
Yes we did. First we imported slaves. After we ended slavery, we started to import vast numbers of Irish and Chinese workers. In the south, Jim Crow created a pool of cheap and powerless labor. After that ended and after the early wave of European and Asian immigration ended we began importing labor from Latin America, which is essentially where we are now.