[Outsourcing=Competition]

None of them has managed to point to what "new" industries are prepared to employ the 4,000 to 6,000 people who get dumped on the street each day.

Well we made the same point when factories were going bust. And those folks got jobs didn't they? Well time moves on..

[bvw]

Time moves on. And our national economy has become vastly more impaired.

Only by force of arms --- fear of those arms -- which we will be very hard pressed to keep in the forefront of, given that we've packed up all the machines and sent them to China -- do we stay the world's reserve currency.

At this time, what you are calling "outsourcing", is more like selling your children into the sex slave market.