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No, they chose to buy it offshore or not to buy it at all.

Somewhere in here, the protectionist lobby is utterly failing to talk about what they would have done about this. What would you do about these things? Totally BAN imports? BAN businesses from contracting with anyone outside the U.S.? Rely on a bigger more powerful government to keep things in check? Is that the answer? A bigger and more powerful government? Am I on the right board?

The answer is to lower wages here in the US and at the same time maintain the same standard of living. Lowering taxes and moving to a completely "Free Trade" environment is not going to accomplish that. That's the only way your model will work, so how do you plan on accomplishing this? Unfortunately it's easier to have government apply tarrifs and raise taxes than it is to have them reduce them.

The only thing your model does is push more people into the liberal camp by making them rely more on the government. Do you honestly believe most American's are up to your challenge?

Rely on a bigger more powerful government to keep things in check? Is that the answer? A bigger and more powerful government? Am I on the right board?

Communist China does...you dont seem to have a problem with that. You know that the "Free trade" is just a title right? It isnt free and it isnt fair. We are opening ourselves up to govt's that should make an American vomit if he could only pull his head out of his ass and look at it.

Wrong. Couldnt be more wrong.

Their decision to create the new software was already made.

To offshore or to use domestic was the real choice.

We can argue about whether to create the new software or remain behind the curve in marketing or whatever, but once they gave the go ahead to make the new software, they still had 2 choices! Domestic or Foreign!!

And those traitors chose foreign.

Their profits will increase through the use of the new software, and I am sure they saved a bundle, but they disallowed the brain power of this nation to be used, and instead used foreign power. Giving away the technology, the brain eduucation, the resume enhancement of this foreign company, the new methods and techniques that this foreign company will use in it's NEXT project which is only BAD in that it gives them an edge over our own programmers...

Doesnt everyone see this? Each time we allow technological jobs to leave our shore we strengthen our economic enemies? We GIVE jobs away? We hand the means to defeat ourselves to the very people we want to defend ourselves from??

Good God, this country has gone insane!! We are giving away the means to ruin our country and we are calling it FREE TRADE!!

Next thin you know, one of our Armed Forces branches will be using foreign aircraft that can just as easily be produced here! Oh, Yeah, I forgot, the COAST GUARD ALREADY DOES THAT!!