Does Obama have it BACKWARDS, by exporting jobs and importing illegal aliens?

There is another solution besides American’s working for less; it’s CEO’s and Managers working for less, and owners and stockholders taking less profit. I by no means promote a communistic system; and really want less government interference on individual companies; but our current system is doing nothing but promoting the diminishing middle class.

Free trade, does not equal fair trade; in the US, you have EPA, OSHA, Minimum wage, Dept of Labor, SS tax, etc etc… all these things add to our base line cost. By bringing items in from countries which do not have these things, our manufacturing jobs cannot compete. To make matters worse; other countries are making products with less and less quality; forcing our consumers to purchase items which they’ll have to replace in a relatively short period of time.

All of this allows employers to maintain low wages, because people buy cheap crap made from other countries. However, if someone couldn’t survive on say $10/hour, they wouldn’t take that job. They might be unemployed for a period of time; or take multiple jobs making less than they can survive on; but they would be constantly seeking better employment. Which would force the employer to pay the employee more, in order to maintain their employed force. Would some pass this cost on to the consumer, absolutely, but I imagine some would also cut into their own profits slightly, to reduce their cost, to ensure their product sells.

Also, this whole argument about increased wages would cause astronomical increases in the product is pure BS. I grew up on a farm, I know what goes into picking tomatoes, and I also know how long it takes to pick them when you’re not screwing off. Say an average worker can pick 2 tomatoes per minute, one every 30 seconds (which I might add, my father would of whooped my rump for picking that slow), and you are paying them $4/hour to do so. That would mean, his cost would be $0.03 per tomato. If we increased his salary to $20/hour, his cost would increase by $0.14 per tomato. The other day, I bought some tomatoes for $0.89, if you passed every cent on to me, I would of paid $1.03, which is far from the $10 per pound, and very affordable to a person who is making a decent living. And, I am sure, you could find an American to pick tomatoes for $20/hour.

The fact that this is even being debated is a prime example of how our economic system is off key. Henry Ford said, your employee needs to be paid enough to buy your own product; and that is where we’ve screwed the pouch in recent years.