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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks
You know nothing of economics. Free trade agreements are wonderful because they allow the USA to export low paying jobs and import higher paying skilled jobs. The problem is the unions and the USA laborers are fat and lazy and do not want to upgrade their skills to suit. The unionists have been coddled for so long that they have an entitlement complex. They do not want to be paid on merit, they want to be paid for seniority. They do not want to compete, they want protected markets. And, most amazingly, these same nut cases want to harbor illegal aliens --the very people who take away the unskilled jobs which puts greater pressure on their own core constituency. Real life is far stranger than fiction!
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Here is the problem with that. As third world countries like India start to build emerging economies many of them are training very skilled workers in various fields like engineering. Some of those workers come to the US to get jobs but more and more of them are starting to stay there and work for companies that are getting outsourced worked from US based companies. I have a friend of mine that works for Intel and he is telling me more and more of their engineering and high end, high education type of work is going to their plants in places like the Philippines. They figure why should they pay US based engineers 60K+ a year to do the exact same job equally qualified Engineers in other countries will do for 15K a year.
This country (the US) is creating jobs (or at least it was pre-recession), but most of those jobs are in the lower paying service and retail industries.