[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.

[RS]

"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."

The only problem is that it dosen't seem to work that way -
VCRs are ten times cheaper and much more powerfull then when they were made here.
I really can't think of any product whose manufacture went overseas that jumped in price.