We have created our own mess...

The United States should be ashamed of itself. What we want and what we need has really gotten misplaced over the years. I am only 44 years old, and I have seen this all my life and really can see the positioon it has placed us as a nation now. We want good jobs, that pay really well, yet we want reall quality goods to purchase with the money from those jobs and at a very cheap price. That is a reality that does not exist. Why do cars cost so much? It is everyone in the automobile industry food chain that is to blame for this. The high up executive made the high salary with the very high incentive program. The assembly line worker who made an outrageous wage for the very simple work they did were protected by the, in my opinion, worse union ever formed, the United Auto Workers Union. Why are jobs leaving the US and going over seas? Because people in other countries do not have to have the big expensive things we want as americans. They are very content to live meger, simple but happy lives. Not an American. We want the big house, the big car, the big family, the big credit cards, the big vacations, and the big wage to have all of those things. However, what we also want is to be able to have those things we so desperatley want and need to be at the cheapest price possible.
People are becoming outraged over what we are now learning has been going on in our financial world. Big salaries, big bonuses, big egoes and all that at a very high price that we are only now really seeing for what it is. Greed.
I recently watched a news program that focused about a factory whose jobs were all take over to China, thus the american plant closed. The labor in China is very less expensive, but their quality of work is just as high if not higher, and they feel ther wage is fair for the life they want to live. This lady was then asked why she shopped at Wal-mart and she replied it was because she had to shop where the price was the cheapest for her family budget. What she did not realize is that the majority of those products were made in China, thus giving her the low price she looks for. If these companies were foreced to keep there manufacturing here in the US and pay US workers at the wage they want, then that CD Player which was 79$ made in China becomes a 119$ CD Player when made in the US. We can not have it both ways America. Someone has to get us back on the right track. We, as a country, need to stop being so greedy and materialistic. Our days of living beyond our means may have just came to a sreeching halt.