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The Chinese manace is another very real problem we are facing as a nation. Unfair labor practices are killing
the American workers dream. We simply can't compete with $2.00 per day

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The Chinese often lure workers in and then don't pay them. If the workers complain their lives could be in danger so they either keep working or walk away quietly. Roughly $160 a month is a typical wage for workers in China's new factories and there is NO protection whatsoever nor is there time off or adequate rest between shifts. American business looks at that and just drools uncontrollably.

American business has climbed into bed with Communist China and our political leaders are in bed with business for election campaign contribution money* so American workers will be the losers. I'm afraid America will never have the inclination to take on China because we love their near-slave labor and Communist dictatorship government that keeps the workers on the job basically at gunpoint.

*Our system now works like this: If you want to be elected to high office you have to court corporate money. If a corporation is going to fund your election then the payback is corporate tax cuts and tax cuts for the rich (corporate leaders). Therefore, the American wage earner/tax payer shall be the big loser.

Mexican illegal immigration into this country figures into this too, as you might imagine. American workers have gotten too expensive as the global economy heats up and fences come down. Too expensive to provide health care to also! (Oh yeah, that discussion!)

I admit it, I really screwed up when I didn't get rich! Rats! Maybe I'll be like the writer Hunter S. Thompson who kept a loaded .45 in the drawer for the day when he would end it. He got an uncurable illness that was slowly taking his life so he put the .45 in his mouth and that was that. Thompson didn't have to sell everything he owned to stay alive either. An HMO CEO would call that a cost-effective solution.