This is the underlying problem. Americans expect to be paid for their work.
Who can live here on less than our minimum wage, like the laborers overseas can do making our outsourced goods?
We have a circular situation here: if our laborer were paid enough to be able to buy the products he is employed at producing, then the price of the product would go up to pay his wages and insurance and benefits etc etc etc.
Since our laborer is not paid enough to buy the products he produces, then the manufacture of the products is sent elsewhere because there the wages would be less. This way the product can then be shipped back to US for us to buy it.
Face it folks, we are the bazzar for the world. We buy everything from somewhere else.
And some of those places do not in return buy what little we do make here.
Our incomes are going out of the country buying products made out of the country.
I'm not sure how we break even here, nevermind come out ahead.
Originally Posted by gale
If the fabrics were all made in the USA I am willing to bet the prices would be even higher. Americans won't work for the piddly wages that the Chinese get.