Sick Cyclical China Syndrome.

Americans cry about a few things such as the cost of products and the pay in jobs, or lack of jobs all together. I hear people cry about the lack of manufacturing in America, however, these are the same people that want to buy a cheap 50" flat-panel TV from WalMart, or a cheap car for Japan. This is the cycle. We want to buy cheap and get paid high, much like the stock market - yet we rail against that.

The problem ultimately occurred in the late 1980's and early 1990's - when programs like NAFTA and others encouraged manufacturing companies to move their development and support out of the United States via tax break and regulations demanding business give American workers certain salaries/benefits. Essentially, this is entirely Governments fault. Government carves the regulations that make American industry non-competitive such as some of the strictest environmental laws in the World and insane support of ridiculous labor agreements. It is this regulation and governmental restriction combined with encouragement via tax breaks to send business out of the United States. And since then, America has become fat and happy buying cheap products from China; a country that has literally no concept of peoples rights - but for some reason we are alright with that when we're standing at WalMart buying $100 dollars of Chinese goods that should have cost us $300 if made in the United States.

Now a lot of people wonder why American prices aren't competitive, well look no farther then the salaries we pay here versus the rest of the World. The poorest woman in America has a far better life than the vast majority of the Women in the World. Americans have an average income of nearly $50,000.00 dollars - considerably more than most nations. Yet Americans constantly believe they are underpaid as Government forces class warfare on society.

Americans view of their own monetary worth is very jaded. Look at the way Americans treat Celebrities and Athletes, they allow them to have insane salaries by literally consuming any garbage they'll put out. America is a great consumer of garbage.

So when you weigh this misguided delusional expectation with Governmental regulation you create an environment dependent on another Nations support. You'll hear politicians rail against China then take Chinese money and investment to support American programs that are unaffordable otherwise. We rail against jobs, yet we don't want to pay an American to build a car or TV. We cry about high oil prices, but refuse to change the regulations that encourage the sale of oil to other countries and limit the production in America. So what does the Nation do, turns to China to assist.

So how do you change this, well you have to start telling Americans the truth and that includes what they aren't entitled to and what the true costs of products should be. The reason companies go out of business in the United States, and jobs are ultimately reduced, is because American companies cannot compete with pricing from other Nations - because of the huge disparity in salary and regulation between the two. No matter how hard America tries, if some of this inequality in pricing isn't fixed, America will never have "jobs", "manufacturing" or room for growth.