Before I give my opinion on what has happened to our country I would like to thank cat driver for making a list of some of the companies that have moved their manufacturing out of this country, but that is just a partial listing I feel it is much larger than that. What has happened to our country the workers in these foreign countries work for far less than the USA workers do but when they buy anything they can buy it according to the cost of living in that country, that is how our country used to be run, but now these foreign country workers are running their factories at full capacity which in turn makes the cost of producing their product go even farther down. There is a society of people in our country that are in my opinion either stupid or they are committing treason in tenor even if it don't fit the current law that we have because they are looking at a market where the cost of living is very high, that is because the standard of living is high the wages are high and they are not looking at what the end result of what they are doing is going to be. They realize that they can get the product produced over seas for a fraction of the cost considering that there are no enviornmental restrictions no worker safety standards to meet and the wages are low. When they get these products and bring them over here they can undercut the prices of our goods and then we have lay offs at our factories which cause the cost of production to go up because the factory isn't producing at full capacity and they are then higher costs for that factory, our factories have to meet governmental guidelines for safety in the work place environmental restrictions and a higher wage structure according to the cost of living here. When the cost of products made in the USA go up then these in my opinion traitors can raise the price of their imported product. I am not faulting the foreign workers they are people just like we are trying to support their family. But as our manufacturing capabilities shrink the manufacturing capabilities of our competitors increase. We are retreating out of the industrialized market and out of the high tech market. Some of the skilled jobs that used to be done in our country the workers that used to do them are getting old and retiring or unfortunately dieing off and there is no one teaching our young people to do their jobs. As advancements are made with less and less in put from our people our nation becomes closer and closer to the point of no return. If we don't soon quite looking at someone's salary that we think is too high and start looking at the real problem we are headed for a calamity. Let me tell you something about that man that is earning $70,000 a year doing a job that you don't think he ought to be making, he has to buy a house in the market where he is working and making that much money, and he has living expenses also according to that market. Some have said that college graduates should make more than a skilled worker that has also learned and honed his skills all his life also in on the job problem solving, as well as self training and has capabilities of doing anything the company needs done, I don't think his pay should be any less than a college graduate. If you look at the ones that have been making all these head busting decisions that have driven our country down the tubes I would say that 90% or more have a college degree, so I don't think they should be making 400 times what the average worker at their company is making. But that is not all we should be looking at, businesses should be run as businesses but governments should be ran as a government and not as a business and I think that has been the biggest cause of this delima that we find ourselves in now. And back to businesses having ceo's that have no idea about the company he is running, about the nuts and bolts of it, and they have no real passion for their product and no real loyalty to it, they are more interested in their own ego than the company seems to me like he is a poor prospect for a ceo. I think that a ceo should have a real background in the business from the ground up and a passion for it. If grand pa worked there and told his stories and dad worked there and had shared his experiences and Junior worked there some as he went to college and learned his own experiences and was promoted on up that makes more sense than what is going on now. And speaking of colleges I think from what we have seen from the ivy league colleges recently I think maybe we ought to give some of the kids a chance that had to go to community colleges and maybe later expanded their education at a quality university, because the ivy leagers of late are more like a mascot than a real contender.
