LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Will India be outsourcing to the U.S.?

Phil Van Valkenburg, Poulsbo

I am wondering how lowering and locking wages is going to help the economy.

For instance, in 2008 my trade was to receive a 12 percent wage increase and for better or worse we elected to give the increase back to help the state of Washington economically. In 2011, we will now lose another 3 percent of our wage. I know this is happening to both nonunion and union workers.

So my question is, with people getting wages reduced or frozen, how will that help the economy pick up?

Are we going to be working for the Chinese; will India be outsourcing to the U.S.?

America has to take care of American citizens. The government works for the people?

Why not bring back manufacturing to the states? Is it not better to take care of the people in one's own nation then to save a buck?

It seems to be getting time to bring protectionism or something similar to the table. The United States has everything needed to become a great nation again. The people just need to stop acting like robots and be assertive and aggressive if needed to make this nation what it once was.