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In reply to the discussion: NYT 2009 American workers are overpaid. Gap must close. Happening now. Thanks, Obama. [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)to do it if we don't take some control over it. Why do we lose jobs to China? They are poorer and will work for less. Then we have no jobs. So it would be better to have them make more so we lose fewer jobs. Even to make 20% less than lose the job altogether. We can't just decree that the Chinese, etc., stay where they are now. Reality is that will never happen. We react in our best interests, and we are the way richer country. So this poor us, the Chinese are actually getting to make some money and we think it's being taken from us doesn't fly. It's the right wing way to be.
And they aren't taking it from us - the economy is expanding to them. And it's going to - we can't stop the rest of the world. We have to figure a way to stay in it and stay dominant (as I'm sure we would like to as we are used to it).