The jobs were exported because there is cheaper labour in Asia and Latin America. When companies were small, and owned by local people, they naturally employed local people. When companies become huge multinational entities (with no loyalty to anything except their own bottom line), then they simply moved the jobs where the labour is the cheapest...like Mexico, Korea, China, and so on.

That is why our traditional jobs have been exported.

The corporate big boys have systematically destroyed the free enterprise system as it once existed, and simultaneously put themselves beyond the reach of the law, to all intents and purposes. This is the ugly truth that the Neo-Cons dance around and refuse to recognize (cos they're being paid off). They pretend to support traditional capitalism while they actually consent to its destruction and its replacement by a corporate oligarchy which resembles Communism in a number of ways, but has a very different outward style of presenting itself...it advertises consumer goods through garish advertising instead of mythologizing a political party and leader through garish posters.

In either case, the local people are disenfranchised and enslaved by a system that is beyond their reach and insensitive to their actual needs...and doesn't care.

- LH