"HK" wrote in message
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For factory workers, China is just a little bit better than a slave labor
state. Chinese assembly line workers make next to nothing. The country has
very vew standards about anything. What the right-wing here wants is a
country full of workers who are willing to toil for very low wages and no
or practically no benefits.

Why pay an American factory worker minimum wage, when you can buy hundreds
of Chinese workers through a labor contractor for $2.00 a day?



Absolutely correct. But where does the problem lie? The management of the
American business realizes that his company will quickly go under if he
keeps manufacturing here in the States, requiring a much higher retail price
for his products.

The problem is the consumer. They want cheap prices. We live in a use and
throw-away world.
Quality, long lasting products have taken a back seat to cheap and cheaply
replaceable.

Expensive, big ticket items like John Deere tractors or Caterpillar
construction machines do well.
Replacement keyboards for computers, TV sets, microwaves and sneakers don't
do so well.

Eisboch