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Let me tell you...America is forced to take cars made by people who work for a bowl of rice or in China's case slave/prisoner labor. However, they don't reciprocate and take our cars...there is no such thing as the free market.

How would you expect a Chinese making $2.00 per hour or as you state "work for a bowl of rice or in China's case slave/prisoner labor" to be able to buy a car made in the USA by someone being paid $60.00 per hour?

The same holds true with our domestic market. All these millions of Mexicans working for discount wages can only afford used cars from the *Buy Here - Pay Here* car lots on payments with 21% interest.

Our big box stores need cheap Chinese goods that the Mexicans can afford. Of course a lot of middle class Americans get all giddy about the low prices and praise free market economies, capitalism, Gaya and The Man on the Moon for their good fortunes that they can by so much more now. What they fail to realize is they are buying crap and usually has very short utility span.

That's the problem I have with the big free trade supporters, it is like a religion to them. I know the Democrats have their "barking moonbat" problem, I'm afraid we have a similar problem with the free traders.

Nuff said, all I can say is that if we continue down this path, the middle class will be gone and people will not be able to afford to buy the cheap stuff made in Red China or God knows where as the old saying goes, "you cannot do business with people who have no money."

Take TV's for example, I use this a lot but I'm the most familiar with it. I have a 1982 Zenith System 3, our daily watcher, got it for $600-$650 in early 1983 as new. We've been watching it everyday from about February of 1983 onward to now. It has been fixed twice, no problems. I still have a 1970 Zenith Chromacolor, our first color TV and I'm sure if I change some tubes and mess with the convergence, I can make it function again. In 1971 when we got it, it was the same as the 1982 set, around $600. True color TV's are cheaper now but they don't last as long and are more apt to be tossed.