Intel is now hiring (in Vietnam ) !

Sure. The founding fathers enacted tariffs, and gave the federal government the power to regulate international trade.

And those were kept to levels well below what we have today.

In modern times, free trade has failed miserably, because we force our corporations to act responsible through law. Therefore, they cannot compete with the slave labor you and your globalist pals prefer.

Which is purely a result of the Government, excessive regulation, and excessive taxation. The solution to Government interference isn't to increase the level of interference, is it?

Free trade doesn't work unless everyone is playing by the same rules.

BS. Outsourcing jobs has ruined the country. We'll be lucky if socialism / fascism is all we have to endure. It's within the realm of possibility that our currency will collapse. And all the slave labor in the world won't fix that. May your own grandchildren not have to work under the labor conditions that you seem to prefer as "efficient and low cost."

Here's a tip - adding more Government intrusion into the market IS the definition of socialism/fascism. It's exactly what you're calling for - Government control of the economy via excessive regulation. Free trade IS capitalism; trade restrictions and excessive tariffs IS fascism, which apparently is what you want to see in the US.

High tech has long been rampant with age discrimination. I remember, 25 years ago, an engineer in his 50s ho was, well, desperate. Although I work with a group today that is the oldest team of engineers I've ever seen.

Long ago I read the notion of a engineer's half-life: every 5 years about half of those in the profession have left -- for marketing, sales, management or something else. My observations say that's a fair estimate.

You don't understand - we make the rules for ourselves which is hurting us. It's not the rules of India, or China, or Vietnam. It's the rules we self-impose. You just want to blame someone else for our own failings.

OSHA and some environmental controls are GOOD things. While I don't support this carbon trading BS, I sure don't want factories dumping untreated waste into rivers and giving whole towns cancer. And I don't want people working for 36 cents a day and living in the factory.

If the third world wants access to our market at all, they need to adopt the restrictions our own manufacturing observes. Otherwise, we're forced to compete with slave labor. And that has destroyed our economy for the meager reward of cheap stuff.

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