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That does not excuse the idea of giving them the rope to hang us with.

Not one of the countries that we are now in economic competition with had any industrial base to even compare with ours...until we started to give it away or sell it to them.

No one gave it to us, we created it through hard earned dollars, and it WAS capitalism then, it WAS honest trade, and it WAS good work!

It was NOT socialism, not Fascism, not government running of companies to prevent losses, it was men whose fortunes were risked to make better products competing on the open market, improving quality to make a more salable item to the public...and we just handed the keys to the candy store to the children, and we are left with the cavities in their teeth....

Good Grief, doesnt anyone remember what a CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT with a company is? It was to keep company secrets from competitors. How in the world can we then hand things over to our international ecnomic rivals who do NOT play by the rules that WE do??

You have a very good point. The U.S. invented integrated circuits and multi-layer circuit boards. We handed that technology on a silver platter to Taiwan. Now most of PC motherboards and peripheral boards are manufactured there. The fine details of computer science, development tools and networking were invented in the U.S.....and handed on a silver platter to India, China and Russia. All the intellectual capital that we worked so hard to produce in the U.S. has been handed to our 3rd world competitors. Our competitive advantage has been given away. Pretty foolish. The barn door is open, the animals are gone. Not too bright.

Manufacturing is one thing, but for knowledge industries like computers, there's just no way we could keep all of the information within our borders if we wanted to. Information wants to be free, it will find a way to get out, and it will find people willing to work on it for low wages. There's no stopping the outsourcing of software. Making physical things might be a bit different.