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Lets say Virgina is the industrial base of the US, and they decide to outsource to GA,TN,and W.VA.

Now, lets say the labor costs in those places lets Virginian consumers buy the same goods, at lower cost..but the VA jobs are vastly reduced.

Does VA go bankrupt? Not necessarily. There are millions of people employed in the Tech/computer industry, even today. Almost none of those jobs were around in 1960.

Virginia should always be a welcome place for the highest level of technology work, and pay for thier citizens. Therefore, it's simply a business freindly environment that needs to remain, not the low tech jobs. (other than production industries related to national security)

Lets say VA represents the US.

What's wrong with outsourcing to Gambia?

I agree with the author of this article. "It's not the outsourcing, stupid!" It's the business environment. Left leaning state and federal government regulations literally FORCE companies to relocate, long before they've hit maturity as a technology. It is exactly why California is taking a beating. When times were good, business could afford being raped, it was better than the short term expenditure of massive relocation.

Governments like CA are inflexible, by putting that excess tax money into entitlement programs for the "poor", now they're stuck....and so are the companies that have to foot the bills, so they're leaving.

The only thing left for CA to do is tax the hell out of the remaining ex-employees of those companies..But wait! Those people are fast becomming the reason we need the entitlements. Oh no, time to blame George Bush!

CA needs to cut taxes/regulation on business. They need to reverse course on entitlements back to sustainable levels, and stop blaming Bush for thier idiotic failures. I would even agree with the Feds bailing out CA to get them back on thier feet, but only if they cut their stupid, outrageous entitlement programs to at least 2000 levels, and dismantle thier "I hate big business" regulations. If the CA economy grows, so goes the nation. It would be worth it.

Business growth is the only way out of any recession. Are you listening, Gray?

Now, lets say the labor costs in those places lets Virginian consumers buy the same goods, at lower cost..but the VA jobs are vastly reduced. Does VA go bankrupt? Not necessarily. There are millions of people employed in the Tech/computer industry, even today. Almost none of those jobs were around in 1960. Virginia should always be a welcome place for the highest level of technology work, and pay for thier citizens. Therefore, it's simply a business freindly environment that needs to remain, not the low tech jobs. (other than production industries related to national security)

As usual in these discussions, nobody bothers mentioning the responsibility of Virginians to buy from other Virginians. Everybody wants to blame business or the government, but the fact is, by spending a few cents more for a domestic good, you are creating a ripple effect in domestic employment. That ripple effect helps Virginia far more than the few cents you "saved" buying lower quality imports.