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Theseus wrote:
I don't have a problem with Wal-Mart any more and I don't care if they move jobs out of the US AS LONG AS they can help re-train the worker for something else.
Why does Walmart owe anyone anything?
It baffles me that people just can't seem to wrap their minds around the fact that it's THEIR crying for cheaper prices that drive work outside the US. Would you be willing to pay $5,000 for your 999" Plasma just to know it was made in the US, versus an equal or better quality Japanese one at $3,000?
And there's nothing wrong with work leaving the US. It leaves for good reason. Do the work where the work is cheapest to do. If you're good at growingapples and I'm good at growing corn, then you growapples and I'll grow corn. It makes no sense for me to grow apples at higher cost than I can get them from you, just to know I grew them myself. US industry is becoming more service based and less manufacturing based by the minute. If you have a job in manufacturing, sucks for you. Change with the changing times or be left behind. Things are changing for the better.
In case anyone isn't up on basic economics and doesn't get the reasoning behind what I'm saying, here's a quick review....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage