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This is a country willing to economically wage war with the First World. Anyone working in that area with that deserves whatever they get (and if the US had a willing administration, indirect assistance).
If the US wasn't hampered by an anti-American administration, that government would not be building the canal. Or at least they'd not have a known enemy of the United States building it.
Nothing wrong from taking a page from the LEO sales and having Chrysler make a taxi (given they're the only manufacturer left that's willing to make American form factor cars these days).
Then again, had Ford decided to not listen to Al Gore by killing all their American lineup (including the Crown Vic) we wouldnt have this problem.
Yet I do not consent to reverse colonialism, as practiced in the UK (or attempted in the US).
China had a chance to step forward and embrace freedom for all, even the people out in the countryside. Their government thought otherwise; the only thing they have is a country where freedom is limited to the few, urban, and well-connected.
Well, yes. And it's up to our country decide what social safety net they want to provide, under what conditions people want to work there, etc.
And as regulation was enacted, child labor stopped. And the same will not happen in China, unless responsive Americans save that economy through Westernization.
If I can't retire comfortably, it will be because of excessive attempts at tax evasion.
Fixed that for you to reflect the brutal truth. Any hope for a free China was lost on June 4, 1989 - in the Tiananmen Square Massacre - to be replaced by a multinational friendly despotic regime.
What entitles businesses to have a better status in the world than the people that work for them? Why should the United States have to bow before the world in order to prosper?
You seem to want some kind of guarantee of long term stability, but that doesn't exist in an era of rapid technological change. On the other hand, you also seem to think it's a disaster when the current jobs disappear, but it isn't.
Why should long-term stability not exist along with technological change? There are plenty of people that do better when long-term stability is guaranteed them - and through forms of labor that allow them to fully use their potential.
To simply sweep people under the rug and to believe on blind faith that *something* else "not seen" will come is to make things worse off.
And you're blind to what's actually going on in the economy; for example, you think only in terms of manufactured consumer goods, when America's manufacturing sector is bigger than ever, but happens to be making higher value products that you don't really see. [derp redacted]
Doesn't matter when it makes unreasonable skill demands and doesn't care to use the people that already exist within the manufacturing sector.
We just don't know what the jobs are going to be in 30 years, but there will be lots of jobs and they will be filled.
Immaterial given that you simply want to brush off the people of today while looking way far off in the future.
And if more people were to stay at home to raise a family because one parent's income is enough for all their needs and wants, like they used to, all the better; we don't actually need to reach 100% labor participation rate or have lots of two person households working.
Surrender your citizenship, go to the EU or some Third World hellhole, globalist.
Well, more free trade and lower import duties would be nice.
Not as long as any US citizen continue to be harmed. Not as long as any fraud is committed by any business that shows their contempt for free US citizens.
The economy doesn't work that way; rather, as the Chinese get richer, they'll have a larger share of the world economy until we eventually reach an equilibrium. And as borders and trade become more open, it will matter less and less anyway.
The more one forgets about the trees around oneself while looking at the whole forest, the more likely that one will see their own fate ended by a nearby falling tree.
If anything, the US should return to a policy that contains the Second and Third World nations - instead of using them as leverage against US citizens looking for work.
I don't think it's been painful at all. We're actually much better off than we used to, and the fact that the Chinese and Indians have developed as well as they have makes us all a lot safer.
Faust got a better deal for losing his soul.
Things are worse for gutting our own industries - in ways not seen before at this scale. Inviting hostile Second and Third World countries has made the world less safe given their predisposition to making things more dangerous and less free.
If you thought Arizona was bad enough, start thinking if about every state (to some degree) starts responding to China like that state responds to illegals.
While foreign programmer are willing to work for less money, they don't work for a lesser lifestyle.
They work for less freedom - the amount of freedom that a business wants US citizens to have, but cannot have courtesy of protections.
It just costs less to live at the median level in India and China than it does in the U.S.
Unlike the US, those backwaters are filled with junk products and bad infrastructure. In addition, living conditions are worse off than the US.
As Maxo-Taco said, where would companies like Walmart or Target be if China and India could sell directly to the public?
Since WMT is already an arm of the PRC after the pro-American founder died, you're already looking at it.
Imagine that you bypass Amazon and buy directly from China. DealsExtreme does it very cheaply. Walmart and Target are the real constituency of your senators and congressmen.
You get a lot of unreliable products - with inconsistent quality - that are shipped very slowly and might as well be an IED by manufacture.
The time's coming when American retailers and businesses will be completely bought out or displaced by Chinese companies as will the management that runs those companies. Then the wailing and gnashing of teeth will begin.
Followed by literal tons of dead Chinese that made the mistake of crossing to the United States - with nobody caring to prosecute (or surviving the attempt). If you want a possible scenario, think of Red Dawn, except with the Chinese in play. Same kind of threat, same kind of response.
Those places exist at the pleasure of larger countries that could just take them out and end their status as tax domiciles.
How long until those places end up with a surprise loss of connectivity that is complete, followed by a takeover of the area? This could apply even moreso to places that are near the US given the overwhelming weight of the military.
If the UK is so important, then perhaps it's time for them to consider penalties for creative accounting that does not provide the full amount of revenue.
The more hidden and convoluted it is, the higher the penalty.
Unlike the HDHP's, a real plan won't leave you hanging when something major wipes out the account. That and all the "tax savings" don't do any good when they cause more problems.
Going rarely screws you as much as going often.
At least you were lucky enough to catch it in time. If you look at the FCC ID of units from both revisions, you'll see the RX-51X that I'm talking about.
The other sure way to tell is if you have to use Pali's bootloader in the place of the bootloader used to load Nemo(Meego) or Android(GB/ICS if you want a strict tablet w/o non-VOIP data services)
Take away all the dishonesty and watch the cost "differential" evaporate into thin air.
In addition, those guest workers are sought for having the status as indentured servants, something not associated with citizens in the properly functioning (and non-distorted by guest workers/illegals) job markets of First World countries like the US.
A few decades ago, McCarthy would have rightfully put you and these companies in their place for siding with enemies of the United States of America.
All the force on K Street won't matter if Wipro/Infosys/etc. and their lobbyists have a very bad day with the explicit disclosure of why. Just explain to the public that their fraud and all their misdeeds (public and otherwise) on national television if someone complains. It's a desperate measure, but someone brave enough to do it would gain the confidence of millions of US citizens defrauded out of jobs; it would be the "Icarus falling out of the sky" moment for the abuse of guest workers of any skill level.
It just takes one Trojan Horse of a President to get in and do the deed.
Given that it's from one of the most un-American entities out there, I'd say that it'll end up doing the exact opposite. It'll be shoddily coded and maintained as well as run.
If there's a way to identify an IPsoft/install, the best thing is to get a human and to get one not from a Third World country.
What the world *really* needs is a good Automatic Bicycle Sharpener.