Gesundheit!

With a downturn hitting many of the world's stock markets, it makes me wonder, with all of our entanglement in trade deals, if the rest of the world sneezes, will we catch cold? Further, I heard a small item on the radio about some American industries using young workers in what are essentially dangerous jobs, paying them very little, and giving them little if any special training for these dangerous jobs. I'm NOT totally against trade, but we're lowering our standards to try to compete with countries that don't have worker protections.