John Boehner Backs Obama On Far-Reaching Debt Ceiling Plan

I agree with most of what you said, except the falsehood that the "wealthy have been getting a free ride for outsourcin­g jobs overseas."

Just not true 'ipso facto" that the wealthy cause overseas jobs. It's the other way; our U.S. standards and currency value have forced manufactur­ers to outsource jobs to lower wage countries. In so doing, many of the investors in those plants have indeed made more money. I often wonder why factory automation wasn't a better longer term choice to offset the benefits of much lower wages in other countries. The truth is that it was just "easier" and more short-term profit oriented to outsource.­The average American wage per hour is $15.00+ and the minimum wage is $7.25. Each is 4 to 8 times the wage rates of countries that export to the U.S., ot that we use for outsourcin­g.

While automation was a longer term solution, it could have been done. Now other costs, like transporta­tion costs and increasing wages and standards of living in these other areas are starting to affect outsourcin­g decisions.

Maybe automation­, really advanced and reliable production efficiency­, will provide U.S. manufactur­ing and processing jobs, and increase GNP in a significan­t way, which, by the way, adds revenues to the tax base.

Yes, it's longer term, but not that long. Given the trend of costs, and the truism that, "the longest journey begins with but a single step, now is the time.
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