That's stretching it a bit -- the way the OIFF counts these jobs includes a French company like Thomson buying RCA and then they've "insourced" a couple of thousand jobs without creating one. And they weren't "outsourced" from France either.
LOL. So all foreign companies do is buy U.S. companies. We all know that foreign companies never set-up shop here. In fact, the word "foreign subsidiary" is hardly in our vocabulary. Furthermore, with regard to "stretching" data, it happens on both sides. One cannot claim that certain data is inherently inaccurate (as it is), without recognizing that the inaccuracy cuts both ways. For example, a U.S. firm with a plant in Indiana buys its main competitor in Illinois. That firm then shuts the plant in Indiana and moves its assembly-lines to Illinois. Bingo! Net loss of high-paying manufacturing jobs in Indiana with possibly no net change in employment in Illinois. And Willie Green weeps.
I am astounded that this thread is not generating more interest. [chuckle]