Who Killed the Middle Class?

Unfortunately those 1.1 million jobs are either government jobs or government contracted jobs for Green stuff that could never turn a profit on their own. Good job creating this mess free traders.

The answer is what happens literally every day - the US worker competes by performing some OTHER job that is either more locally oriented, benefits from the much higher level of education in the US, has a different skill set, etc. This is how jobs are lost and created CONSTANTLY ("creative destruction") and will be the case again once the government allows the malinvestments to clear from the economy.

You keep acting as if a position that is complete BS - that the employment situation in this country is driven by trade policy rather than the massive interventions in the economy by government - is settled fact.

And there's nothing economically superior about manufacturing vs. services.

Again, you mention an ill defined "other job". I'm asking for specifics, we know that there are a large number of unemployed people in the USA. Advise them on what the best course of action for them to take will be. And try to remember that not all of them will be geniuses, and those people need some way to earn a living as well.

Unemployment and offshoring of jobs driven by BOTH bad policy decisions and "free trade", I have never said otherwise.

There is something superior about manufacturing, it is that the product of your labor can be exported, services often cannot be shipped overseas. Someone in India might buy a car made in the USA, they have far less use for a US based lawyer, doctor, hair cutter, lawn mower, police officer.

yes, you are making the common demand of the economically ignorant. That I cannot identify the specific job does NOT alter the fact that, as ALL of human history demonstrates, those jobs ARE created in a free economy any more than I can identify which molecule of water raised the level in the pool when i added another bucket.

Yes, there are a large number of unemployed in the US because of the government's job killing policies. The bestc ourse of action for thmet o take is to get the morons in government spending like drunken sailors, adding regulations and raising taxes out of office. Painting graffitti (or fighting free trade which accomplishes as much) will avail them nothing.

Your continued attempt to blame free trade for unemployment suffers only from being factually wrong, completelyd isproved and economically ignorant. Otherwise, it's wonderful as a fairy tale to tell demented children but of very little real use.

Further economic ignoarnce is demonstrated by yourc omments about manufacturing. It makes no difference whether servces can be "exported". THe ONLY economic issue is the creation of VALUE (which must be the case or there would be no market for it). you have a bizarrely overblown concept of the relevance of interbational trade.

Remember that you can't just tell poor people that it's their own problem to try to become economically viable, if you don't offer them some reward to participate in the system then they have nothing to lose by tearing it down.

I am not trying to tell "poor people" anything. I am doing nothing more than advocating the system that has always made them better off. I could, instead tell them that black is white, the good fairy can make their poblems go away and free trade is bad but I would be lying may posterior off. Instead, by advocating what actually works (capitalism and free trade) rather than painting pretty pictures for them and teling them what they might like to hear (no matter how idiotic), I push for a system that will make them better off whether they believe it or not without worrying about "tearing it down" fantasies.

American workers have to compete with Indian workers who make $1400 a year. And this makes our country stronger how?

American workers find other jobs as the resources freed up by consumers getting more products at lower prices create MORE and HIGHER PAYING jobs. This isn;t speculation - it is proven FACT.

Last time I checked prices have gone up, particularly in imports like oil. The only thing that has not gone up in price (relative to income/inflation minus fuel/import costs) and/or improved in quality while prices remain constant are Made in America items like food and PC core processors.