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No one in Mexico would work for $0.10/hour. Even China is over $0.60/hour but you're right. You can lower taxes to zero, remove all regulation and you still won't be able to compete unless you automate.

Automation doesn't do much for the American blue collar worker. Like the pewterguy said, slavery is the answer, in other words find equilibrium for labor against the Chinese and others. The cost to bring finished goods to the American market is cheaper if they are made here--less shipping costs.

Maybe we could pay workers in factories $1.50 per hour and get the jobs back? Maybe if we eliminate regulation and taxes on industry, we could pay workers $2.50 per hour? $7.25 is the national minimum wage right now, but it is impossible to raise a family on that wage.

Also, if you don't pay Americans a living wage, they won't be able to purchase the finished goods. It's not an easy problem. The only viable solution I see is more biologists, physicists, chemists, engineers and mathematicians.

We need to crank up education in this country and compete from a position of industrial ingenuity in an increasingly complex world. Gee Wally, that may make sense in your mind but your result is completely inaccurate. Products sell for considerably less in the US if they are made in China.

I have been importing from Asia off and on since the mid 1980s. I see it in retail as well, as a consumer. The other day I went to home depot for a head mounted LED flashlight.

I found one made by a trusted US manufacturer for $16.95. Sitting next to it was a three-pack of a nearly identical model by a company I didn't recognize and undoubtedly made by WhoFlungPoo in China for only $14.95. It appears you'd like to sell the idea that our tax rates have overburdened us due to the massive expense of unemployment insurance, food stamps and welfare, but in reality, our tax rates are the same as they were when Bush was President and half what they were when Reagan took office.

Keep in mind too that unemployment during a strong economy is always around 5 percent, not zero percent. One out of nine are not working now but one out of five not working is normal.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.