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More jobs are outsourced to America than from America.

Are those jobs with foreign corporations to build products or deliver services here in the U.S. that are headed back to the home country of the foreign corporations?

Or are those jobs with foreign corporations to build products or deliver services here in the U.S. for delivery in the U.S.?

Or are those jobs with foreign corporations to build products or deliver services here in the U.S. for delivery in the U.S.?

Well, I think that with something like the Indian-owned Essel Propack plant in Danville Virginia, which makes toothpaste tubes, you are probably right that they are producing for North America. However, many foreign companies do have US-based R&D to take advantage of our skills. See for example France Telecom R&D Boston

What is it the protectionists propose that won't hurt more than it helps, especially after Washington lobbyists get done with it? Nothing I can see. Is it really going to help American productivity to put a whole big new layer of regulation on, say, IBM in India, to make sure they don't cross the line, never that clear in computers, between sales support (good) and product improvement (supposedly bad if it takes place in India). You want to write a letter to IBM protesting their center in India, go ahead. But let's keep Congress out of it.

I dunno, do you drive a Honda?

We know three things...

1. The media hates Bush

2. Outsourcing has gone on for a looong time in all facets of ways to make a living

3. The media lie

I'm left to believe that this issue is not really an issue as much as the media is trying to make it. They're as usual attacking Bush over things he has little control over or of trends that have been going on for longer than 3 years.

Nissan makes Altima's and Camary's (and will soon be making SUV's) in Smyrna, TN (non-union).

Mercedes just finished a plant in Mississippi (again, non-union).

All high paying jobs. I wonder about all the complaints of "outsourcing" in Japan and Germany.