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The point is you can't have it both ways

And neither can you. The foreign companies that manufacture in the U.S. put to lie the free-trader myth that companies cannot compete here because of OSHA, litigation, wages, etc.

I, being a conservative, agree that these problems need to be addressed. However, the major reason that we have an exodus of manufacturing and some service jobs is pure, unmitigated greed. Of course, this shouldn't surprise anyone who will take an honest look at this generation of CEO's. Following behind the baby-boomers is kind of like being behind the horses in a parade. Lots of crap for us to pick up....I just hope we don't get buried in it.

The foreign companies that manufacture in the U.S. put to lie the free-trader myth that companies cannot compete here because of OSHA, litigation, wages, etc.

Aren't most foreign companies that manufacture here non-union?

When you invest your money in a business that writes the checks every week then you can tell me about "greed".

However, the major reason that we have an exodus of manufacturing and some service jobs is pure, unmitigated greed. Of course, this shouldn't surprise anyone who will take an honest look at this generation of CEO's.

Bunk! Companys have to compete to survive. When unions demand high pay and high benefits compounded with rising costs, businesses have 2 choices, A) Get creamed by companys with cheaper labor and go under. B) play their game and outsource. You think this is a disaster, yet you ignore that this is .2% of the workforce. We create 5% of job from other companys from overseas who see a market and creat more jobs! Unemployment is under 6%. Why is this not a disaster with the boogie man of outsourceing. You Chicken Littleing a non-issue!

The use of overseas workers for manufacturing has become a political football in a game that ignores the realities of production and distribution. Instead this activity has been given the derogatory term "outsourcing." Such condemnation ignores the realities that are necessary for the capitalistic system to be successful in what has been evolving into high tech global system. It is the methods of this network that socialistic groups are determined to destroy through Marxist propaganda techniques. Why they being targeted is because people all around the world are being touched for the first time with the free market system. Socialist hate this the way the Devil hates Christian missionaries. What makes me so puzzled is why are conservatives being influenced by these socialistic groups and the Democratic Party? It is that same Democratic party that is good for over regulation and lawsuits. If you want an example, just ask Microsoft. These Socialist Marxist are determined to destroy the same capitalist methods that have overcome the major obstacles necessary to site factories in foreign countries in order to place the manufacturing close to the distribution system. In other cases, American consumers had benefited by high quality, low cost goods.

American software manufacturers have benighted greatly by the electronic networking world wide. Microsoft alone has computers around the planet loaded with it's various operating systems. For every one job outsourced, we have more jobs coming back to the U.S. worker.

If anything has caused loss of jobs it has been over taxation, over regulation and excessive lawsuits. Such have become the three pilfers of the Democratic Party. Those who target the free market have been defined by the manifesto as "useful idiots." I would call them yahoos.