Jim,

What is your solution to this?

>Yup. And what was Wall Street's reaction when they abandoned the "buy American" policy... high praise for higher profits!
>That textile plants and clothing plants and shoe making plants and < you name it > plants all shut down or moved offshore was just 'the natural cycle' and all was/is good with the world (of economics).
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>Maytag is leaving its roots and moving out of country. Hundreds of jobs lost and thousands of workers (in related companies (as suppliers) or furnishing goods and services to Maytag and related workers) are in jeopardy. All for profit (or not enough of it) and all because competitors moved away first giving them lower prices than Maytag. This is a good thing? Especially when that off-shore washer is NOT priced at cost of production + reasonable profit but rather at just low enough to kill Maytag. It STINKS!!!