You are right about the no easy solution. When we come back to the States every summer I usually spend one shopping day just trying to see what I can find that is made in America. Aside from food, it's hard. All talk of taxes aside, how do we create an economy that benefits everyone in a relatively equitable manner? As a consumer I want the best quality at the lowest price, but if that means that I am buying something made elsewhere then that will have a long term negative impact, will it not? So in the US you already have the race to the bottom taking place with states that offer tax breaks, right to work laws etc. And when companies relocate to those states they continue tolooking for ways to lower costs. And the biggest cost is labor. So then the factory moves outside the US and it's bye-bye jobs.

Bottom line, it comes down to greed, perhaps. Does profit always have to be maximized? Vulture capitalism is a disease of the spirit. In American society it's "me before we." It's not like that every where.

The "they're taking our jobs" argument has been going on for longer than any of us has been alive. Just substitute "India" or China" for "Arabs", or "Japanese", or "Italians", etc etc

If they are overseas, they are doing it better and cheaper than you. Suck it up. As for the social "problems" it causes, I'm sure Japan and Taiwan can tell you about the economic before and after within their countries when they decided to do it better, cheaper.

If they are within your country, they are not stealing a job, they are doing the job no one else wants, then spending the money they make within the community they live. I get cracking down on illegals for the fairness aspect, but you are kidding yourself if you think that a 3rd generation American or Canadian is suffering because someone from Bangladesh is scrubbing the office toilets.

Which, by the way, my grandfather did in the Great Depression. Trust me, I heard about it often enough.

Yeah but that was in prison.    I guess he passed that skill down.

GRANDPA WAS NOT IN PRISON, FAT BASTARD!!!!!!!!!

Did they call it the hoosegow back then?

LEAVE MY GRAMPY ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!