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You can't just blame the left or unions for jobs leaving, although that's certainly a factor. A few other issues:
- High insurance rates due to the lack of a universal health plan for all americans, mostly blocked by the right.
- Extremely high manager and executive pay. Neither side really at fault, just a fact of american life.
- Extreme safety rules compared to other countries. Again, neither side really at fault.
- Extreme environmental rules. Probably more of a left responsiblity.
I have mixed feelings on the jobs issue. On the one hand, jobs going to china really bother me. The public is oppressed, has little rights, and has terrible health care. Jobs going to India, on the other hand, doesn't bother me as much. The people have decent freedoms and people are working hard to catch up to the USA.
I feel like some sort of "oppression tax" needs to be added to goods imported into the USA. Not a democracy? Tax. Don't have freedom of speech? Tax. Don't have basic civil rights. Tax.
I know this isn't a workable policy, but without something like this I feel like worker's rights will be sacrificed as the USA gets in a "race to the bottom" with other countries.
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