That’s why work performed in one place resulting in an expensive product might never sell, but the same work performed elsewhere resulting in a product of equal quality but lower price might sell many units.

That’s also related to mechanization. If you could make a hundred units while paying one man to operate the machine versus only making ten units while paying a hundred men to do it all with stone axes or by gnawing on the wood, you can make sales.

Now if you could train beavers to do the work…… ? ?

Why? Most traitors never go to jail or are even shot. If a thing is treason, it is treason. The Constitution even defines treason and the requirements for proving treason. If trading with other nations were treason, you would be a traitor every time you filled your gas tank, using fuel from the Middle East or Venezuela or Angola or Mexico or Canada. After all, the same fuel or a substitute COULD be produced from American coal or from your corn flakes, although at a higher price, lower efficiency and greater carbon dioxide emissions.

Do you feel like a traitor?

Further, the money they receive for what they sell you doesn’t just sit there. They use it to buy things from the USA, things which produce jobs. They might not be the same jobs, but they are jobs. Quite often they’re just buying bombs to kill each other with, but jobs are jobs. Right?

You wish there were more jobs locals could do which paid well. So do I. I’m just not willing to call those who didn’t provide those jobs traitors (traders to you), knowing that is worthy of a death sentence. I don’t think people should be killed for not hiring me. Nor should such be accused of a crime which carries the death sentence.

David for anti-inflammatory language

One question though, why are you so mad that they make their living by trading goods and services? It perplexes me..

It isn’t really treason to invest in businesses in more than one country. If it were, then Toyota, Hyundai, Kia and officials would be traitors for building manufacturing facilities in the USA rather than Japan or Korea .You and many like you act like companies are slaves or property of the USA. They aren’t.

I remember when Senator Kerry was speaking to a bunch of factory workers telling them he would stop the buying of American businesses by foreign companies. He got no applause because the people in front of him were only employed because some Italian company had bought it before it had to close.

He was telling them that he would have them all laid off if he were President.

David for reason

Those machines didn’t lay off anybody. The economy has laid off millions
all over this country. You owe that to the poor running of this country by
Presidents, Congressmen, Representatives, and companies who
were trader enough to take their businesses to other countries so they
could have greater profits and pay their C.E.O’s more money in a year
than some Americans will make in their entire life time. The town is not
subsidizing anyone, because no one else would rent that building and
he still owes his back rent. There are no takers for anything in Century.
I have no doubt that this man hated to lay off his employees and would be glad to get a contract big enough to re-hire every one of them. Have you ever looked
a man in the eyes and gave him his walking papers? Nobody WANTS
to do that.

He has not run out on his bill, I respect that~