Obama and communist party in US

[Don M.]

Is China responsible for undermining your industries or is that entirely the fault of corporations looking for cheap labour and China has merely reacted to a prospective growth situation for them? Maybe look at your government (and mine) and you and me for wanting cheaper and cheaper 'stuff' and free trade agreements that made it possible for our industries to abandon ship with no penalty for doing so.

Its a combination of Both. China operates is manufacturing base using virtually Slave Labor, paying its workers barely a subsistence wage, and virtually No Environmental regulations, freely polluting the entire planet. Our manufacturers have to pay a decent wage, and adhere to thousands of pages of State and Federal regulations. Plus, China maintains a huge electronic hacking operation whereby they have been able to shortcut their R&D process by stealing corporate secrets from the Western manufacturers. Naturally, under such conditions, their products are going to be far less costly than ours.

The corporations care little about nations...they are all becoming Global. Apple, for example, has a "shadow" headquarters in Ireland...so as to escape paying any US Taxes, then farms its manufacturing out to a huge slave labor manufacturing facility in China called Foxconn, owned by a Tiawanese company called Hon Hai. Apple is probably one of the Worst examples of a corporation whose Only motivation is Profit.

Then, the US consumer has to share the blame. The vast majority of people can only see "price" when they go to the store. That is why companies like Walmart have gotten so huge. People pay lip service to "Made in America", but when it comes time to open their wallet, they invariably chose the cheapest product, and don't even look to see where it is made.

Our Government is just as bad...with its international trade agreements, like NAFTA...and now the push for the TPP. Everyone decries the decline of the Middle Class, but no one wants to support the industries that have generated the Middle Class. It's no wonder that there is such a growing disparity of wealth all over the world. At the rate things are going, it won't be long before the world consists of a few Ultra Rich Royalty, and masses of Peasants.