[Texasforever]

If you can't see any advantage to creating an environment for skilled labor in the US, I don't think there is anything I can say to convince you...

You don't get it do you. It is exactly those high skilled/high tech workers that have made offshoring of jobs economically feasible. Whether it be automated assembly lines that no longer require highly skilled workers to man them to the communications technology that allow for programmers in India to work for US based companies. The Technology boom is the "culprit", not government. High tech whiz kids are responsible for millions upon millions of “American” jobs being eliminated or automated to the point that an un-skilled Mexican peon can do the job just as well and much cheaper than an AFL/CIO worker in Detroit. If you want to blame someone blame the folks now crying that their programming jobs are going to India.

[jpsb]

The Technology boom is the "culprit", not government.

Partly true, but government has not been at all helpfull in this reguard. There is good reason to believe that government can to nothing about "out sourcing" data entry level jobs. I might make a few suggestions but I think those type jobs are going overseas requardless. But government can and should impose tariffs on cheap imports to level the playing field in the American market for American producers, that is a no brainer.

[Veracious Poet]

Actually, I do get "it".

Tariffs have been made artificially low in the USA due to excessive income taxes and free-traders like yourself wanting to make it profitable for Global corporations to subjugate slave-labor and/or dirt cheap labor for easy profits...and you think there is any difference between this system of exploitation and having slave-labor within the USA? LMAO

I had a friend who made a fortune doing import/export with China in the early 90s...after witnessing atrocities personally and having to pay bribes to ChiCom representatives (sometimes accompanied by armed troops) he decided it was better to sleep at night than be involved.

Why is it that slave-labor makes you so happy, are you an investor in Global Corporate Imperialist concerns?