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[YNGW]

Unskilled labor jobs are going overseas where labor is cheaper. The manufacturing jobs that have been lost in my state of NC (for example) are gone. Adios. They aren't coming back. This is a global economy and workers can no longer depend upon getting out of high school and working at the plant like mom and daddy did and their grandparents before them, etc...

All this talk of taxes for those who outsource and boycotts and buying American might be something you individually can do to make yourself feel better, but the overwhelming majority of Americans aren't going to participate. They want the best price for their dollar and anything the government does to raise the price of goods coming from overseas (taxes, tariffs, etc...) hurt the poor and middle class the worst.

The modern day young student better bust his/her butt in school, make good grades, obtain an academic scholorship for college and be ready to enter a phase in our country where the USA is the technology developer for the world and the rest of the world is the manufacturing base, because that's the way it's trending.