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In reply to the discussion: Free traders do NOT want to discuss WHY manufacturing is coming back to the USA [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)If they weren't going up, then why is it cheaper to make stuff in the third world? Their wages are still much higher.
The finger wagging should be at the people who go to Wal-Mart.
People choose to pay the lower price for the products of others, while thinking everyone should be wiling to pay top dollar for what they make.
People could stay home from Wal-Mart and choose to buy from Americans. They don't do it because they are trying to save a buck. Everybody wants to save every two cents they can so long as they are the buyers. Then they want to sell their labor at top dollar and complain that others can't afford it.
Even without the bogeyman free trade, there was always, outsourcing within the U.S. and the big company coming in to town and shutting down the small businesses. There is thus only one real issue here - if you want your wages to stay up, pay for others' wages to stay up. The average American consumer doesn't care that it comes from where it comes from, just that it costs a dollar or two less. Then they wonder, when it happens to them, how unfair it all is.