benhon3:

Tex,

That's not what I got from the post. There's such a thing as reaping the rewards for your labor, and then there's just plain greed on the backs of people. It is irresponsible to pay someone $2/day in some Asian sweatshop that will afford that person only a meal. It is plain greed to ship manufacturing jobs overseas for that $2/day, putting Americans out of work and allowing our cities to crumble and rot.

Why, exactly, is that greedy or bad? If the $2 a day affords that person the only meal he or she is going to get that day, it seems that both sides are better off. Lower wage costs = cheaper products, and cheaper products lead to an increase in the real wages of those purchasing the products.

As for the effect on American cities, why do Americans working in closed factories have an inalienable right to those jobs? If someone is willing to do the work for less, why shouldn't they be able to? And why do the interests of one set of American workers outweigh the interests in other workers of being able to buy cheaper products?