I am sure with your vast knowledge you are right. The fact that I lived in Mexico for many years and in El Paso for several leaves me with absolutely no insight into this article, the entirety of which I read, and the agenda of which I picked up on immediately. This is Leftist economics at its most strident, complete with the hand-wringing about global warming. Manufacturing jobs are, by definition, not middle class, they are working class, what used to be called blue-collar. Jobs moved to Mexico because the working class, organized into unions, priced itself out of those jobs. The laws of supply and demand work in the labor market as well as the retail and commodities markets. Businesses can only afford to pay what a job is worth, not what the worker wants to be paid. The jobs didn’t pick up and leave on their own, they became too expensive to maintain in the U.S. and still make a profit, which last I heard was one of the goals of capitalism. The Mexicans who work in the maquiladoras are not rich by U.S. standards, but they are much better off than the majority of people in that country. The ones who have maquiladora jobs aren’t racing over here, it’s the ones who don’t that are flooding our country. The cost of living in Mexico is something close to 35 or 40 percent less expensive than living in the U.S. We are being victimized, but not by companies that operate maquiladoras.
So, you are claiming the American Middle Class “priced itself out of business” ?
Here’s a really simple question: If American workers who used to earn a living wage have been reduced to “want-fries-with-that ?” jobs, WHO is going to buy the products our loyal corporate compatriots are selling ? (Or is that too “strident” and “leftist” a question?)