[mnehring]

‘cheap labor’ is always a goal, just as any cost savings measure to maximize profit while minimizing expenses. The question becomes what is causing our labor to be priced out of the market? We can’t, on one hand, complain how the government strangles businesses with high taxes and regulations but on the other hand, damn them for reacting to that through means such as finding labor in markets that is affordable to them.

[Red Dog #1]

More precisely, it's not cheaper labor business seeks but greater labor and investment productivity. Anyone that points to a single all encompassing factor to explain why jobs are leaving the US doesn't know what they're talking about or is being disingenuous. Labor cost, productivity, taxes, regulations, the rule of law, potential liability, land cost, transportation cost, fuel cost, health insurance, pensions, etc, etc all get counted.