[BFritz]

Did anybody stop to look at it from this point of view: having factories and things over there takes jobs from those people, which is bad, but we have almost a million and four-hundred (1,400,000) US citizens looking for jobs. Sucks that they have problems, but so do we. Maybe, if the US unemployment rate went down, and/or more money stayed in the US (I know not much leaves the country for sweatshops, but that means it stays in the hands' of the extremely wealthy), our country would become a lot better and the wealth would be spread.

Sound greedy? Flash forward to phase two of my plan: the more wealth and jobs in the US would cause the need for expansion as well as more workers to produce the increased number of goods being sold, and then companies could set-up factories and things (not sweatshops) in other countries to meet the increase in demand, which then people in those countries might also eventually have the money to purchase the goods that they're producing.

All of that summed up: we need to help ourselves first, and that will give us the power to help others, which would make the world a better place.