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How much do Americans earn in foreign countries?

I have several friends who used to contract abroad (mainly but not exclusively in Saudi Arabia). They were making a *lot* more than these latinos (they were making a *lot* more than most Americans).

I think that international contract labor someday will be thought of as being as important as free and unrestricted trade. This will be a problem for the wealthiest countries until worldwide standards of living are brought up. If we want to go the protectionist route, and maintain abnormally high wealth here and abnormally high poverty elsewhere, then we must ban this practice and put back the high tarrifs on imported goods. Unless you buy into that whacky idea that free trade creates wealth for all parties.

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