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American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.

Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.

We are not facing great economic difficulties. The Indonesian people are faring reasonably well - just compare us to India or some other countries.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Globalization has redefined the competition for employment and incomes in the United States. Tradeoffs will have to be made between the two.

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.