How to Save America

[The Anti-Wisemon]

40 hours a week, short? What world do you live in?

That's 7 hours a day. Most people work 8-10 hours a day.

Competition is about what consumers want. The fact is, most consumers WANT to buy American made products, but can't because they've been pushed to the brink of extinction and to the very limit of affordability by cheaper products made outsourced. And why are outsourced products cheaper? Because countries like China have no minimum wages, no overtime regulations (this is where the 40 hour workweek comes from), and no business legislation. In fact, Anti-Wisemon, it sounds like the sort of place you'd LOVE! Why don't you move there?

I don't like all that is happening in China, and it's hardly a beacon of free market policies. Consumers want the cheapest, best made products. They get it, and then they bitch? Something has to give. Not to mention they have no one to blame but themselves for outsourcing.

I don't ignore your example, but the fact is monopolies are bad no matter how cheap they make things, because they can: 1.Treat their workers however they like, and 2. Treat the markets however they like. If Philidelphia Steel had wanted to they could have jacked up prices however much they like.

And lose their market share when another company comes?