[oceanview]

put me down in the poorer part. since in my profession, I now have to compete with people in china and india - my salary growth is down the drain, I'm lucky to be able to keep my job frankly.

[Shermy]

Importantly China and India practice nothing anything like international "free" trade and employ successful strategies for advancing national rather than individual corporate interests.

[MNJohnnie]

Your personal career issues do not the whole economy make. So might the buggy whip or whale oil scandal makers have complained at one point. I have been laid off 4 times. Crap happens.

Freepers seem to just suck up the Big Govt Socialist line put out by clowns like Dobbs. Guess LIMITED GOVT is a dead principal with the "Real Conservatives".

[Jimbaugh]

Outsource the CEO's and you will see it stop.

[Torie]

In the short term there are winners and losers, with free trade. But one must look to the long term for economic policies. Propping up endeavors that others do per unit of value at a lower cost is a long term loser. In the end, the US would produce goods nobody else wants, ala the Comintern block run by the Soviet Union. It is the road to penury - in the long term. Short term losers can agitate for mitigatory measures for their short term pain, but if it involves a case that you wage has dropped from 40 bucks an hour, to twenty bucks an hour, that probably won't sell.

[OpusatFR]

Here in Hampton Roads, we have Ford disappearing, Oceana probably closing and Ft. Monroe gone.

1.3 billions dollars will be gone from the economy.

Tens of thousands out of jobs. And that's just the beginning....

But, it's all good because we don't want fat, stupid, uneducated Americans working and sucking up what they don't deserve. /sarc..

[esoteric]

Adaptability is a key concept in a free market scenario. With the "experience" on your resume it might be time to move to a new career field, if money is your passion.

[georgia2006]

well get a new one...i did