Not the same reasoning. The fact is that if you have a job that requires no skill, your job will be eliminated through automation or lower-cost overseas labor eventually. To protect those jobs is foolish an counterproductive.
Our economy has always evolved through innovation and cutting-edge technology, not protectionism of zero-skill labor.
The fact is that high tech and IT jobs are being eliminated to "lower-cost overseas labor eventually.". Skill levels are relative, and there is no job that is so highly skilled that it cannot be competed with by others in countries with substantially lower standards of living than ours. The question is: How do we lower the standard of living in our country (everything from job saftey to building codes and zoning laws) enough to make us again competitive with the third world? Or, perhaps, do we want to?