# OFFICIAL: 2008 ELECTION THREAD **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-2008-election-thread/41192 **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [January 3, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-2008-election-thread/41192 "2008-01-03T18:04:30Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1054
### Author: ![StrokedZ28](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/strokedz28/32/7592_2.png) [@StrokedZ28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/StrokedZ28) #### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-2008-election-thread/41192/1054 "2008-08-05T11:07:59Z")
> [@AWDrifter](#): > > That’s the million dollar question. > :gotme: > How do you compete in a global economy when your standard of living is sooooo much higher than 99% of the planet? > If we don’t trade with other countries get ready to pay $20,000 for an LCD TV and $2,000 for an XBOX. > But that would be lowering our standards anyway because no one would be able to have items like that. > > Like I said it is the million dollar question. > There is no easy(or painless) answer. We could try to raise the standards in other countries. Maybe some sort of tax or tarriff on companies that employ people for so little. I mean if you hire a person to work on an assembly line in taiwan and there making just enough to get by but never to improve thier life, maybe force the issue on companies to provide wages and benefits to allow the social mobility that we have here in America. I’m not suggesting trying to make it exactly like the US but put it in the right direction. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-2008-election-thread/41192)._