Why rail against cheaper labor?

I agree with Mr. Suhrbur’s Oct. 22 Fence Post letter that, “conservatives have facilitated the world expansion of trade,” but that also helped many businesses to expand and export their products to the entire world.

This “redistribution,” as he calls it, has been in effect since President Reagan, and partly due to this, we have seen many good decades for the American worker. Problems began when borrowing and easy credit became an addiction for many families and our enabler government. Reagan did try to keep government small and not become the mama and papa to the people.

If businesses are running to other countries, shouldn’t we be finding ways to keep them here by upgrading our schools so that we have qualified workers? Stop bloating our federal work force; make their pay and pensions and insurance align with the real world — and that includes those in Congress. Reform our tax structure from 3,500 pages to a Reagan-era 1,500.

Starting in ‘09, this country has not had a budget nor in ‘10, and so far our president has not indicated if there will be a 2011 budget. Does that help the American worker? How do you run a business when the big federal elephant is in the room?

A business has no idea from one year to the next how much they are going to spend or tax? Will that make businesses come rushing back to the U.S.? Rallying against corporations that seek cheaper labor will just allow foreign corporations to take their place and the goods will still continue to come into the U.S. except the profit will stay overseas. Is that a solution?

Dushan Lipensky

Wheaton