[InterceptPoint]

Blah blah blah, blah, blah, blah.

To all of those libs who think we are running out of jobs you had better think again. There is no end of work until (perhaps) we all live a Disneyland life in our own castle. We are not there yet.

As long as we seek to improve our life and our lifestyle there will be work to do and therefore jobs to do. In my opinion, there is an inexhaustible supply of the stuff. We will never run out.

Think about it: If we could export the job of building a house to China and buy them for $1.00 it would put a massive number of people out of work. And we would all rush right out and buy a new house. That is an exaggeration but you get the idea. The people out of work would eventually find jobs and in the meantime we would all enjoy our 4000 square foot $1.00 houses. That is a plus not a minus.

[Mortimer Snavely]

People need to make stuff in order to sell stuff in order to have money to buy stuff. If folks don't make stuff, there's nothing to sell, hence, no money, and regardless of how cheap any item imported may be, folks won't be able to buy it.

[Alouette]

The people out of work would eventually find jobs and in the meantime we would all enjoy our 4000 square foot $1.00 houses. That is a plus not a minus.

The minus side is that you would have to move to China in order to live in the house, or else hire a shipping company to dismantle it, pack it, ship it and reconstruct on your property in the U.S. which would cost $400,000.

[Archangelsk]

Think about it: If we could export the job of building a house to China and buy them for $1.00 it would put a massive number of people out of work. And we would all rush right out and buy a new house. That is an exaggeration but you get the idea. The people out of work would eventually find jobs and in the meantime we would all enjoy our 4000 square foot $1.00 houses. That is a plus not a minus.

Uh, this isn't even worth the hypothetical argument since there's no possible way in Hades that this would ever happen.

[grb]

Your example is all wrong. The American company will hire the company from china to build the house for $1. The American company will sell it to you for $150,000. The state and local goverments would levy a tax against the $150,000. Yea that works.