Heck, if weren't hiring illegal immigrants to do the work for naturalized Americans here, we would just be sending the jobs overseas to be done cheaper somewhere else... oh wait that's happening anyway. As Gilda used to say.... "never mind"
No wonder Wal-Mart is a mega empire, everything they sell comes from China or South America. And those country's use slave labor from prisioners to manufacture their products. I know absolutely for sure they use slave prison labor in mining operations in China, it's the only way they can compete!! Then they export those materials here to be put into Sanyo televisions and Hitachi blenders to be sold in America for 800 dollars a piece and 30 cents back home.
Now how can Americans possibly compete with slave prison labor?? We can't. I believe the only way to fix this is to raise terrif taxes so damn high that American Co's have no choice but to manufacture their products right here. After all we are the world largest consumer market, what would we care if it destroyed the Chineese economy. I wouldn't. It would certainly level the playing field.
I remember Bush trying to do exactally that in the steel trade industry just a couple of years ago, of which China and Russia are the formost exporters of steel now and Pittsburgh Pa. used to be the number one exporter of steel, then the WTO had a fit about it and other countries begain saying they would boycott American products if we raised terriff taxes. So Bush relented under the pressure and gave in, single handedly laying waste to the American steel industry in the process.
I wish someone with a spine would run for president, someone like JFK. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat. I like Bush but i don't think he has the guts to confront the world, and he definitely dosen't have the communication skills to get his point across to the American public, so the apathy just continues as usual and people just go on with their pathetic lives, watching Friends, Survivor or American Idol instead of getting involved and voting ...potentally changing their lives for the better. It just goes to show why america is in the dumps today... the people aren't involved in their political system anymore. It hurts us all, what a shame. I expect in a few years we will be the International States of America. Thats when i'll puke in my boots and cash in my chips.
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