You said it!!! The only way the citizens can turn things around is by not buying things made over seas. You need to make a choice between just cheaper prices or made in America pride. You can't have both. It's not cheap to live in the United States and lowering salaries to beat out the competition overseas is not feasible. Nobody could live on the wages paid overseas here in the United States. But it is not just the maufacturing jobs that are lost to over seas competition, it is tech jobs too. Than we have to compete for what jobs that are still here with the illegal immigrants or immigrants being brought over here for nursing jobs, IT jobs, etc. Unless the citizens take a stand with companies and government it will only get worse.