Realistically, people are not going to pay more for stuff if they don't have to. When it comes to all our big trading partners including China, we're like those classic Greek wrestlers, we have each other by the balls. Whatever we can do to them they can do to us and it will really hurt. That leaves cutting our cost of manufacturing if that boycott I suggested doesn't work and while it sounds nice fat chance of that happening.

So how can we cut those manufacturing costs? It boils down to less regulation and less taxation on the company side and less benefits for workers. Especially with the traditional union jobs, those wages and bene's like in the old auto and steel industry for example just wasn't feasible. Those jobs simply did not require the skill and education that you would think a $75,000 a year job would demand. Plus the no cost health insurance and killer pensions. The unions demanded that level and they got it for many years from the no longer Big Three. Now the UAW owns GM and they now know that GM management really wasn't lying when they tried to tell them for the last 20 years that those levels of wages and bene's would bankrupt the company. All the UAW did was yell and scream about the exec's pay and play the class warfare card when the truth of the matter is those few fat cat exec's salary and bonuses barely nudged the overall bottom line. If they paid those exec's the exact same as a line worker it might have lowered the cost of a new Chevy by 25 cents, maybe. The company still goes bankrupt.

If you can get a hundred people right off the street with no experience and with maybe 90 days of training put them to work doing the same job the union guy was making 75K doing, what does that say? 40K is more like it without a technical college degree and that's the true fact of the matter. You don't buy a house and put your kids through college on that kind of money, it's a basic living wage in a two bedroom apartment and that's it. More than that and people have to get a real technical education not the bs fluff they've been kidding themselves with for the last 30 years.

Anyway to finish with answering your question, lower wages and lower bene's for those types of jobs coupled with big tax breaks and less regulation especially OSHA, the EPA and maybe the biggest one, protection from frivolous lawsuits like the kind that John Edwards made over 50 million bucks doing. Trial lawyers are the second biggest contributor to a certain political party. Then the companies can afford to make that stuff here and compete with the Chinese made goods.

The days of the false union driven economy concerning those types of jobs are over.

Bob

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