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JAMES HALL's avatar

Hear that GIANT Sucking Sound?

"We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, ... have no health care—that's the most expensive single element in making a car— have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south.

... when jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it's leveled again. But in the meantime, you've wrecked the country with these kinds of deals." Henry Ross Perot

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Ben's avatar

Ross Perot was 100% correct and how do you turn that around?

One way is to make those cheap labor products more expensive for people to buy so its cheaper to buy products made in your own country.

This is also good for not having to ship products across the world on giant fuel sucking ships.

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