This is getting dangerously personal... but I'm known to throw caution to the wind

Remember the North America Free Trade Agreement? It put a lot of textile workers in America out a job, sending these jobs to Mexico. Was this a poor decision? I think not!

If you work a job as menial as mass production of printed T-shirts, you should move to China. While they only pay a few dimes day, it gets half a billion Chinese people by. People with the opportunities we have should take advantage of the easily accessible education and numerous choices of career paths. More engineers, more technicians, more working with your brain than working with your brawn. Let the people without these opportunities do that work. They'd much rather make .25 USD a day making shoes than $.10 USD farming rice.

If you live in the USA, with all the opportunity for education and climbing the career chain of your choice, and you're making toys for McDonald's Happy Meals... I have very, very little sympathy for your forced change in employment.

Hundreds of millions of people, around the world, will give you everything they have to trade you citizenship. Why don't you move to China, where you can paint 2" statues of the latest Pixar star, allowing America to pull in this untapped Chinese and Indian spirit for skilled work and scientific advancement? You'd be just as complacent, American businesses would be able to more easily and cheaply produce their products, American citizen's dollars would go further, and American workforce would be more competitive with the developed world. (ie EU)