Broader unemployment measure at 17.5%

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Originally Posted by Bob Dog

The factories have sailed overseas and with them the jobs that we had grown to feel that we were eternally entitled to. You and I my friend are competing with a person who is delighted to work for a bag of rice some shoes and clothes and a plastic tarp to keep the rain out of the cardboard shack.

Not to mention it costs significantly more to export goods from the US than it does to import goods from outside.