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Price pressures.
Yes, price pressure is good to the point that it properly improves competition. However, this same price pressure is driving jobs out of the US to take advantage of other countries cheaper costs. These same countries have no health insurance for their workers, no retirement for their workers, and few if any safety regulations for their workers.
This same effect is reducing wages, health coverage, etc for many American workers. A side affect is that less money (due to lower paying jobs avaiable) is put into programs such as Medicare and Social Security, worsening the problems with these programs.
This kind of thing benefits only the most wealthy, not the rest of us. Is this what we want?
I believe that a good start would be to insist that retailers who buy out of the US (Walmart, etc) and manufacters that move jobs out of the US provide the same kind of health, retirement, and safety benefits to their workers that are available here. I would rather pay more and know all benefit, not just a few.
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