[RockyMtnMan]

Instead of slinging mud can you identify how and when America will benefit from offshoring? Also, are you accounting for other professions other than technology moving overseas as well? Just curious what your theory is.

[Ramius]

I'm not slinging anything, honest...

American consumers do in fact benefit from "offshoring" if it means they can buy things that they could not otherwise afford and wouldn't otherwise buy. Bought an American made TV lately? How come?

Comparative Advantage is a sometime cruel but inescapable economic priciple. If raw logs can be *shipped* to Japan, made into lumber, and the lumber made into furniture, and the furniture *shipped* back to the U.S. and that furniture is still cheaper for the same quality as something made here... who's fault is that? It is certainly not the fault of the consumer that needs a chair.