... purchased by the export of billions of dollars worth of offshored jobs, jobs that were formerly held by Americans with families to feed.
Think War on Terror....India is not the US' most favored trading partner. That distinction goes to communist China.
Where else are they gonna go after the Soviet Union folded ?
What is it about free market ecoomics that people like you don't get? You sound like a socialist DUer. Total tech jobs now in the US are 17% higher than in 2000 and the current jobs pay more than the jobs lost. Got that?
Why is it that chicken littles like you have always been proven wrong. The US economy for the past fifty years has grown stronger and GDP/head is still at the top of the world. That's after manufacturing jobs went to countries where capital can be used more efficently. Same thing with offshoring.
I'll bet you were humming "America the Beautiful" as you typed your comment.