[gogoman]

The whole thread is about outsourcing and how some people claim that it is destroying our economy and putting a lot of people out of work. Stating the most important fact that the unemployment rate of 4.8% just annihilates this argument once and for all.

No, it does not. There is a difference between your current employment at Wal-mart and your former employment as a technician at a semiconductor plant. Anyone can get a job a Wal-mart, but you have to be trained and certified to be a technician at a semiconductor plant. That amount of training gone down the drain is a COST on society that is not accounted for by simple unemployment rates. Hence it's not as simple as you make it appear.

[jveritas]

You are reciting DNC talking points but you forgot to mention their important talking points about all the new jobs created are burger flipping.

We have better jobs and better standards of living than all any other nation in the world. You need to travel more outside the US, to see how is that the vast majoirty of people in the world do not come close to our great standards of living, and I am not just talking about third world countries, I am talking about industrial nations as Western Europe and Japan. The only two countries that can come close (not very close) to our standards of living are Canada and Australia.