We've got to ask ourselves a simple question - are we willing to give up the White House and both houses of congress? Do we want at least 4 years of Kerry?
If we don't want that, we had best wake up and smell the coffee. People vote economic issues, and they are not happy right now.
We need to stop the offshoring, and we need to do it now.
How do you propose to do this? Pass a law that stops it?
Writing a book was previously the domain of authors from Western Nations. Unfortunately, worldwide literacy has taken away our writing jobs and now cheap writers in India compete with American authors for jobs.
I'm sorry to say, but IT and programming is not as skilled as some would like to think. If someone else can learn how to do it (Indians) then you will have to compete with them. Like it or not.
You can choose to compete with them today or you can compete with them 20 years from now after you have protected your industry and stifled innovation.
How about stopping offshoring to communist China only?
It won't be easy. Some in this generation of conservatives are conditioned to salivate on command. How I was conditioned to stop criticizing Communism and learned to love it: cheap labor!
They can be just as tricky as any defending their addictions.
Look at Mr. Bartlett's writings, referenced in #4. He argues that "outsourcing offshore" are today's "racial code words" such as yesterday's "states rights" and "law and order." That is how the evil "protectionists" get support from today's "racists" (xenophobes).
Hard to believe that a "conservative" would give credence to such 20th century leftist crap that "code words" existed; that he accepts the leftist lies that honorable men and Americans like Barry Goldwater meant the "N" word when he spoke of our Constitution and -- well.. law and order. Liberal pigs mocked it by shorting it to "lawn order."
Rather than stopping outsourcing offshore how about just letting it "wither away" vis-a-vis the Chi-coms?
India is another story. It is one of the world's more corrupt countries even more corrupt than the criminal, corrupt government of Mexico. I first became aware of the problem from Indian H1Bs years ago and have done some googling lately that confirms the problem.
Keep offshoring to the Philippines, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, etc. under free trade?