[Rodney King]

It is true that it would cause some short term pain for the government if they had to buy from the US, and for US companies if we tried to stop the outsourcing.

The easy answer to this is to pass the bills now, but not have them kick in for two years. That way US investors can plan production facilities, and corporations can plan moving their operations back home.

[swany]

"It is true that it would cause some short term pain for the government if they had to buy from the US, and for US companies if we tried to stop the outsourcing."

short term pain for the government (read taxpayers)

However, taxes raised by a larger workforce and taxes from the corporations might offset this. But if not, all we would hear from naysayers is "more government spending".