Hold on there! There is NO WAY the American worker can compete against the practically slave labor rates and standards of the developing countries; sweatshop labor conditions (with no overtime), low wages, no health care, no benefits.
The first step to destroy the American worker is a totally political one, yet once you take the first step, the capitalism is totally functioning the way you expect it to be.
Beside, the world is not buying American products unless they absolutely have to and they copy any useful product instantly. So you have no intellectual property outside of US, hence you really do not have any pricing power abroad either. But, they have the same pricing power for their products in their country or here. So, you cannot win however you slice and dice it...
We need to kill the inflation and the overbloated asset values, if we have to have any sustainable long term growth.
Translation: we will match the Asian lifestyle. I wish it was simply a capitalism problem. But it isn't, because they don't respect and treat their labor the way the American Corporations HAVE TO treat their labor. You are trying force down the throat of the American capitalism the pricing they achieve with their not-so-capitalist ways...
The American Industries are significantly more expensive, because they have very high labor standards and this is all it comes down to. The average American has a lot more to loose here while they have a lot more to gain, the corporations did not care about this for a very long time. Now the only pricing power remaining in US is in the service sector, but the paper profits are unsustainable without the manufacturing to support most of the economy...
The globalization will destroy every American value eventually, once the country looses all of its living standards and match the rest of the world, then it will be all balanced and US will have a sustainable growth, whatever that means.
Conclusion: in the long run, the majority of the Americans MUST work to only earn some lunch money, have no buying power for anything and totally forget about any luxury item like most of their competitors in the other countries.
Eventually once the Americans loose their financial freedom, they will also loose their freedom to think.
But bernanke and his cronies have been doing just the opposite - creating inflation as opposed to creating real wealth.
They are doing what they did in the past, but now in a completely different dynamics.
IF the country had not been loosing its wealth generating engines, it could effectively become more efficient and deal with the reflation efforts since the only real threat to the economy would be the commodity prices, NOT an unfair pressure from the global labor.
You have to see it beyond the simple pricing dynamics, the conditions leading up to the destruction of the American growth engines and the self-destructive paths taken to achieve the paper profits are all due to the political decisions to begin with...
