“As if Americans would ever pick fruit for minimum wage 12 hours a day.” that is the point. The reason fruit pickers get paid minimum wage for 12 hour days is because there are so many immigrants coming in and doing the work. That outsiders come in to undercut local workers is why unions form strike lines to keep…

And talent in it. Not everyone can do every job even with training.

A big problem is the idea that manufacturing jobs are “low skill”. Being machine operator or millwright is an incredibly high skill job, that is why they had high wages.

You keep messing with terms and substituting “Fact” for “Factiness” as “Truth” is replaced with “Truthiness”.

Are they really America’s “Allies” though? And allies of who in America? The factory worker in rural Pennsylvania? Doubtful. When the nitty gritty of politics gets real many “allies” end up being fairweather lampreys. How much did the Eastern Bloc “Allies” support Russia once it fell from grace?

That is what will happen, and they will lose advertisements. This is someone warning them of their change in markets. If they want to be a politics blog fine, but then you are competing with an already clogged politics market instead of dominating jalopnik’s market.

Whose US interests? Different groups in America have opposite interests in regards to China. If you are a blue collar factory worker vs an investment banker you have different interests.

*keep that up if you have a smaller economy

How is Russia a danger to America? Its a danger to Europe sure, but the EU has become and economic rival to America and threatens its hold as reserve currency. Russia has an economy smaller than Canada, its only danger is that if you attack it it still has a enough nukes to make you regret it.