Listen to me:

To start a business or operate a giant polluting, petro-chemical, pharma,
semiconductors or battery businesses (which happen to release Heavy Metals);
a Chinese entrepreneur need not worry about pollution, Clean Air act, or
care about villagers dying from swimming in seemingly harmelss river. Go
ahead and paint your products with led paint, go ahead and feed slamon with
carcirogenic foodistock.

Then GO AHEAD AND SELL IT TO AMERICA BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO INSIST
ON BUYING CHEAP PLASTIC CRAP, thereby destroying American working class.

Now forget about 'working class", both Bush & Obama talk about "retraining"
& skills improvement. Excuse me???
Do they expect me to get a PhD in Burger Flipping?

That's where it's coming to! I have MSEE, what else do I need? A PhD??
Because someone in Shanghai does the same job for a few dollars/hour because
their cost of livign is so much lower, their busienss can pollute and never
spend $BILLIONS on environment, is there unemployment or disability, etc
insurance at CHinese factories? if it exists, it's a joke. It's
nonexistant, practically, i't s on paper.
What does that mean to an entrepreneur? A gigantic advantage over Western
companies. My boss is struglling to deal with led & heavy metals produced
out of our Amplfiers assembly floor.
I imagine him if not in Beijing where starndards are higher, but some God
forsaken village in Guangzhou, he'd dump into a local rivfer, and be done!
Then sell super cheap amplifers to YOU. So you don't get this job.

If this continues, McDinalds, BurgerKing and Sales/retail will be the new
'career" opportunities. These "careers" are retarded, intellectually
demeaning, uninteresting, depressing and to me plain suicidal.
I love my profession and you know why? It's one of the ONLY 3 learned
professions of mankind - a doctor, a lawyer, and an engineer. A Tco Bll
server is not a profession, but if you see th epurpose of ypour life in
frying or maybe paving asphalt, or calling people moaning & begging to buy
somethign useless, then of course you will like the Trade imbalance.

It's fine to buy their goods IF and ONLY if they buy equally from us, listen
to me, it's been disocvered centiries ago by French revolution, then Karl
Marx,ben Franklin, you name it. It does NO tmatter capitalist or
communist - all agree, a country which buys more than it sells, is bound for
destruction. And it's not quality alone, it's important to sell
knowledge-based goods which are hard to duplicate with same high quality,
and buy raw materials which are EASY to find elsewhere or can be replaced
w/new technology if your supplier gets nasty.

You have to keep trade partners on a leash or they keep you on a leash -
we're now enslaved by MiddleEast for energy, and Asia for manufacturing; and
that alone can be somewhat tolerated because we simply finish off MiddleEas
tin 40 years and switch to Hydrogen, and we were lettign Chiense to remain
in low-quality, low-tech manufacturing. What happened now is we allowed to
export skillful, high-tech white collar jobs ALSO. This is unacceptable.
It's one thing to diecast a basic wrench (tool) for $2, and another when I
call tollfree (800) to check on shipping sttaus of a digital highprecision
caliper (micrometer) I suddenly sense CHiense accept, my eyes roll up? I
ask where shipping from? She says Beijing! HELL, all tis time I thought I
was ordering from Illinois! Turns out they outsourced everythign from
manufacturing to engineer. I am an engineer and this will not pass.

Lou Dobbs is not enough, we should join and fight FREE TRADE to be replaced
with FAIR TRADE.