General Discussion

First off the author celebrates jobs being outsourced to China where workers make $500 per month because it makes things cheaper for US consumers.

He glosses right over the fact that many of those jobs were once done by American workers in manufacturing plants located in small towns all over the country. Manufacturing plants that were shut down and closed because the workers couldn't compete with someone making $500 a month. Many of those plants are still sitting abandoned while the small towns they were located in had to deal with a destroyed tax base.

When plants were closed and production was moved to countries like Mexico and China, there was universal condemnation here with people blaming corporate greed. So now, the message is that this was actually a good thing?

Then later, he states that the US minimum wage needs to be $25 per hour. Won't that make products more expensive for consumers compared to competitors in China paying their workers $3 per hour?