[Sam the Sham]

Bull. Any job that can be done in front of a computer terminal can be outsourced.

Absolutely true. And it's YOUR job, if you sit behind that terminal, to ensure that is is not outsourced.

You do that by improving education,...

Being smarter than anyone in China or India.

..demanding fewer benefits from your employer,

Compete on price with a third world standard of living

demanding the tort reform from your senator,

Restoring 1900 levels of environmental controls and workplace safety. Bring back the good old days of company police, company stores, and sweatshops.

Oh, and you forgot making sure that I never grow older than 45.

[TopQuark]

Compete on price with a third world standard of living That is a complete misunderstanding of the issue, I am sorry to say. You NEVER compete on the standard of living: you do so on productivity. And you don't need to be paid the same: to be paid 10 time more than an Indian you need to be 10 times more productive. If you're only 9 times more productive, job outsourcing will stop if your salary dropps by only 10%.

Restoring 1900 levels of environmental controls and workplace safety. Bring back the good old days of company police, company stores, and sweatshops.

Where does this follow from? I never said anything of that sort. The courts went berserks only a few decades ago, and this is the point that we need to bring back. When they award millions of dollars for someone spilling coffee in his or her lap, YOU and I pay for that. It has become a matter of POLICY (which the courts have no business undertaking in the first place) to make companies pay simply because they have the money. That must stop: what you see is the companies' adjustment to this idiotic situation.

So, where's connection with sweat-shops?