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Originally Posted by Scott Campbell
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Originally Posted by red
if american companies don't have american workers......
If?
That horse left the barn years ago. The american factory worker can not compete in a global economy when skilled Chinese factory workers are making 70 cents a day. And if it weren't China, it would just be some other low wage country.
Capitalism has little pity for the weakest competitors. You either adapt, or die.
How do you expect American workers to adapt to these realities? Work for 65 cents per day? Beg in the streets?
I don't understand you. I feel reasonably safe in saying that you aren't stupid. A little less secure in thinking you are not cruel, but we'll go with that theory for sake of discussion. Why are you so unwilling to help people who are displaced by globalization? If health care is tied to employers, many people are going to suffer badly, there simply aren't enough jobs with good benefits to go around. It is very hard for people to retrain themselves.
I don't see how we can have relatively free trade without massive consequences to people. Yes, people must adapt, but do you truly beleive they will be able to do it, in large numbers, on their own?