[RS]

"It is not the paper only. They are also getting the American manufacturing."

Your'e right ... in a sence we are paying for it in our loss of jobs.
Because of our high labor costs I would suppose that many of the plants would be automated if we continued to make things like VCRs here, so I think that in most cases the jobs would be lost anyway.

[A. Pole]

Your'e right ... in a sence we are paying for it in our loss of jobs. Because of our high labor costs I would suppose that many of the plants would be automated if we continued to make things like VCRs here, so I think that in most cases the jobs would be lost anyway.

And not only jobs are lost. When the manufacturing is moved (automated or not) to get those VCRs, one has to pay or do without.