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Yet another rant against the "globalists."

You must be unaware that trade was always global. About 13% of capital in the U.S. is British -- those evil British capitalists outsource jobs to the U.S. You must have also heard about evil Japanese capitalists that outsource jobs to the American car-manufacturing plants. American companies have been doing the same for over a century.

The situation is quite simple, really. When you see an import that is better than its American-made equivalent, you buy it. Labor is a product purchased by employers. If we want to be purchased (employed) we have to be better than foreigners. When we were, outsourcing was small; and conversely.

“work at Wal-Mart or a restaurant”

You couldn’t even keep these jobs; with two or three years of even small raises, you are priced too high compared to the high school dropout who may not do the job as well, but certainly will do it for less. That is why age discrimination protection (which rarely works anyway) starts at 40 years of age...

Why would someone want to be a software engineer anyway? Just have a few kids, work at Wal-Mart or a restaurant, and get on ‘Food Stamps’..... The new American Dream.

(thanks globalists)

What the Globalists didn't tell you is that 'Globalism' and 'Free Trade' are just another variant on Marxism - crony capitalism/corporatism/fascism in which you have the illusion of freedom and private ownership. National borders and the middle class are just an impediment to free movement of goods and natural persons.

We are moving back to the middles ages with an upper elite class and neo-serfs (who are called citizens of the world). For a long time the middle class life style was able to be maintained using debt (remember 'debt is good') and cheap good made by disposable workers in third world countries working without even minimal safety or environmental regulations.

The elite of bother major parties who set policy and dole out campaign money have long been bought and paid for by global corporations and finance. Now it's all hitting the fan.

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency...the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered..."

"We must crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Jefferson