This. China didn't take our jobs by force -- they did it by offering good terms for mass industrialization, which American industialists ate up like candy. So the Americans look good for helping to get all that nasty industrial pollution off onto China, who don't care what their environment is, if they're high up enough in the Chinese govt machine, they can escape to whatever Shangrila suits their fancy. And the American businessmen who look so sanctified for cleaning things up don't get their proper blame for exporting our jobs wholesale, when they damn well ought to. If OUR govt put a high tariff on any company outsourcing any part of their labor to the 3rd world, companies would stop doing it. Prices would go up of course, for many of the products we commonly buy, but hey, we got our jobs back!
It's all a balancing act; you do something good and useful for your country, and the far-reaching effects of that activity are hard to comprehend when you're signing on the dotted line, and it's usually not the muckety-mucks who bear those costs, it's the working... or unemployed... people.
Andria