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Dobbs: American Idiot

OK, I will say it. Lou Dobbs is an idiot. He insists that American workers are entitled to high wages and should be shielded from global competition.

corporate America has just bought a license to outsource more middle-class jobs to cheap foreign labor markets, to continue unabated so-called free trade and the destruction of more manufacturing jobs,

It is now clear to all but those who will not see that both political parties and their corporate masters have placed our middle class in direct competition with the world's cheapest labor, leaving it only a tenuous and failing grip on the American Dream.

This is a fine example of "zero sum" thinking where the pie is only so large and in order for me to have something, it has to be taken from someone else. Global economics does not bring down Americans; instead, we live better and better every year by specialization. Sure it is tough because we have to continually improve and produce things that cannot be produced in the third world. That means we have to be better and smarter every year. It has always been this way, not just recently. One must always adapt to the current economic environment. To cry about having to compete is just a loser mentality. Winners acknowledge reality, buckle down and produce. Don't be a Dobbs, be a true, competitive American.

posted by Jim VAT @ 6:56 PM