Sure. Go ahead. Allow the working and middle class of this country to be decimated by pervasive outsourcing and offshoring. Get used to the society it creates. You had better live behind gated walls because if you don't you will live in a society that can no longer control young males of average or less intelligence by being able to give them secure futures. Get used to a generation of amoral, rootless, antisocial young males without mercy or remorse who will take your callousness and hand it right back to you. When the manufacturing jobs go you get hoodlums, like the gangstas of South Central or the skinheads of the Midlands when the British industrial economy died or the neo nazi skinheads of Eastern Germany, etc.
Whether you think you owe it to them to pay for them is of no importance. You Will pay for them one way or another whether you like it or not.
Why don't all you superprofessional productivity machines log off of Free Republic during weekdays and perhaps overhaul your knowledge, skillsets and marketable talents to a level where some guy with a 5th Grade education and flies in his nose in Burkina Faso isn't better qualified for employment than you? Maybe you shouldn't be posting to the internet during time-critical weekdays when you might actually be expected to perform your daytime jobs? For the 95% here who are "unemployed/I gotta bad back", use this time to learn something, or do something, that that plucky go-getter in East Africa doesn't know, or do, better.posted on 07/25/2003 by ArneFufkin