What a weird post, Monster. "Racist?" Would you have said that same if the original poster talked about American jobs going to Canada or Europe?

Of course everyone in the world has the "right" to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, and a stable middle class life. For that matter, the Jets have as much of a "right" to victory on Sunday as the Vikings.

This isn't about "allowing" others in the world a middle class lifestyle, or "disallowing" them one. It is about global economic competition for healthy economies and the jobs and lifestyles which come from that. The Chinese are not being racist either, for that matter, by competing with the American steel industry.

Americans in the auto industry have as much of a "right" to good jobs as their Japanese and German counterparts, but the Japanese and Germans simply out-worked, out-innovated, and out-profited and out-sold. They won. Nothing personal here.

As you mentioned, the American led global economy is one of the best things that ever happened to the world's developing populations. It has worked human wonders in much of Central and South America, and parts of Asia like Vietnam and so forth.

The question for Americans and their competitors around the world is to figure out how to get the best industries here.