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Whatever Jorge. You see outsourcing as good,

I never said that.

What I said is that I see the realities of businesses competing in a world economy and if outsourcing is a necessity to compete, you do it, or you go out of business.

I don't see what is so hard to understand about that.

I don't see whats so hard to understand about competing with work forces that are paid a small fraction of the American worker, no worker protections, no environmental protections, no health care, no 401k's, no retirements, no severance, no unemployment insurance, no nothing.

I could see if we were competing on a level playing field, but were not. Our government is negotiating trade deals that primarily give other countries a leg up on the American worker.

Besides that, Americans have always produced quality products that could garner a premium. These inferior quality products shipped over here from China are only good and cheap, not necessarily good.

I remember a time you could buy, lets say a water sprinkler made in America that would last for years and years. Sure you paid a little more for it, but you don,t have to go down and buy one every year due to the lack of quality.

I'm not implying that this is the rule in every case. Sure the Japanese produce a great automobile, so do the Germans. But most non durable items are mass produced with the cheapest materials and processes possible.

I would rather have good paying manufacturing jobs in our country and pay a little more for my products thus helping bolster the standard of living for the American family....what the heck is wrong with that?

We Americans are competing with a HUGE, poor third world labor pool that makes pennies per hour. Is it morally right for large corporations to take advantage of these people as they do? I would be ok with outsourcing if the corporations were made to supply basic necessities for their workers like the U.S. We could then compete.

By the way, I am not in a union, in fact I think unions are part of the problem not the solution. They have priced the American worker out of the market. With that said, do we throw the baby out with the bath water?

Our government has allowed large corporations to get away with killing our manufacturing base in this country. Realize it or not, this will come back to haunt us.