LOL! Guess you haven't had to call Dell or HP for support lately?
Offshoring has increased quite a bit... taking salaries, taxes, purchasing power out of the hands of many middle class citizens. Only ones not to suffer consequences are the CEOs and the BODs.
Why is it so damned difficult for non-business owners to see the world through a business owner's eyes? I never said, not once, that the Mexican/Portagee/Chinese/Madagascaran/insert-your-favorite non-American-here replacement worker provides outstanding service to the bitter, petty, and universally myopic Free Republic isolationist. What I have said, every time, is that they are more productive. On the margin. Which means they add to the overall profitability of the business.
This does not mean they work harder; it does not mean they are better looking; this does not mean they will steal your wife and corrupt your children. It means that the very unemotional machinery of business has determined that exploiting their labor is more efficient than exploiting yours. Get over it. And if you don't like calling India to service your Dell, stop buying their computers.