hello,

The consumer is not to blame as he is applying what he has learned,
getting the most for his money. The American laborer needs to learn now
how to compete and realize that most anyone can do his quality of work
with out government intervention.

Let me disagree with that, the consumer is to blame, because he knows that
by going for the short term profit, he is jeopardizing his long term future,
but he does not care. BTW, this is a symptom of psychopath!

the problem is not as much that the American laborer needs to learn how to
compete, but that the American citizen need to quadruple at least what he
pays for stuff (relative to income), and therefore greatly reducing his
lifestyle, and this is hard to do...

BTW, I was reading last week that if everyone on earth was consuming like
the average American, it would take 5.8 earth to support mankind.

regards, cyrille