One of the saddest things

 China is bad for the United States.  China is bad for our economy.  

One of the things you often hear in layoffs is the person laid off has to train some foreigner or immigrant how to do the job they just got laid off from.  I've heard it in computer programming and animators for movies.  

The fact is every business wants a lower cost to either make more profit, offer a lower price or a combination of the two.

In the book I'm reading, they talk about NAFTA taking manufacturing jobs from Americans because the Mexicans will do the job cheaper.  Less cost.  More profit.  Also more competitive?  How do you define competitive?

Here is one of the most sad things I've ever read.  It has to do with jobs being offshored from America to China.  Specifically the manufacturing of furniture.  This is a conversation between Democrat congressman Tim Ryan and furniture maker Jerry Treharn:

"Ryan: Some of the workers at companies, literally their last act at the factory was to unbolt the machine and load it up to be shipped off to China.  Treharn: I event talked to a fella down there.  They wanted to send him over to China to teach the people how to run the machines that they were shipping over there.  He was sixty-three years old.  He said: I only got two more years to go, and I can retire so I'm not going to bother doing it.  He said: Bad enough they took my job.  Now they want me to show'em how to do it, too"

I almost started to cry.  Not only for the loss of jobs in America, but the way they're being lost.  

Capitalism can be ugly when they only thing valued is profit.  At all costs.