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To: Dark Skies
True, some hardworking Americans will lose their jobs, but this painful reality doesn’t weaken the case for open markets and free trade policies. Given the benefits of offshoring, the logical response is to make our labor force and economy more flexible and able to cope with change, and keeps our workers performing higher value-adding tasks.

Globalists are always spewing this garbage, but you notice that they never spew specifics.

The worst thing we can do is use regulation and tax policy to trap Americans in jobs where overseas sources are more competitive.

Yep, can't have an American getting a paycheck larger than someone in the third-world.

18 posted on 01/28/2006 11:29:43 AM PST by Penner
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To: Penner

Gentlemen:

We can decry the outsourcing of US jobs or take a real look at what is going on...try to understand...and anticipate trends and consequences to our advantage.
Outsourcing is a global phenomenom...trade barriers are coming down to varrying degress...some countries like China are still agressively protecting their home industries and invading other markets like ours (but also massively investing in our governments bonds)...but other countries like Brazil are aggresively countering such predatory measures...India is certainly a leader in outsourcing but they are running out of skilled professionals and countries like the Phillipines will benefit by supplying the shortfall ...other countries like Japan need to deal with aging populations and shrinking workforces (while foreign investment in Japanese markets skyrockets).

The bottom line is that gradual massive movements are taking place in reaarangements of supply lines (China from Saudi Arabia) labor forces (outsourcing) markets, and investment capital

Deal with it...national boundaries are becoming economically unviable.


20 posted on 01/28/2006 11:45:32 AM PST by Basilides
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