[thoughtomator]

I wish someone could explain how this benefits Americans. I've yet to hear a cogent explanation. What do we have to gain from the wholesale export of large sections of our economy?

[Caipirabob]

The satifaction that while we're sending them all the jobs of our middle class, that any of us who are still working will be subsidizing the construction of more colleges and general infrastructure in India through our tax dollars and foreign aid, while our children have to fight 6 foot sewer rats, roof cave-ins and asbestos poisoning just to make it through home-room attendance at school, only so they can graduate and find all our jobs have been sent to India. /RANT

[laredo44]

I wish someone could explain how this benefits Americans. I've yet to hear a cogent explanation. What do we have to gain from the wholesale export of large sections of our economy?

The whole of capitalism must appear a black box.

[AntiGuv]

It's the ultimate in strategery. By the time terrorists strike again, our industrial base and high-tech sector will be securely hidden away in China and India...

[mlmr]

I think the standard answer is lower prices.

[RightWhale]

I wish someone could explain how this benefits Americans.

You may be behind the power curve. Once personal investments have achieved a level [that varies from person to person,] further success in business is greeted warmly, not with consternation. Some of the collar jobs, white or blue, are already gone, but those who have invested wisely and not borrowed up to the hilt for SUVs, houses, things for the house are in good positions. Instant gratification by possession of symbols of affluence is not affluence. A big-wheel pickup truck in the hands of a college student is not a party aid, but an economic anchor. Our Federal debt is over $6 trillion, our personal debt is at least that much. We'll be forced, often by early choices, to work for the rest of our lives just to get back to even, and that is why disappearing jobs seems so serious.