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Regardless of who's actually responsible, Bush will take the blame for this. Here in NC, IBM is talking elminating 100's of IT jobs and sending them overseas. I know many of those about to be laid-off, and they all say Gore has a chance, if he'll only run. Those hundreds of millions dollars in bribes, er, campaign contributions, that W is presently collecting is cushioning him from reality real good.

Regardless of who's actually responsible, Bush will take the blame for this. Here in NC, IBM is talking elminating 100's of IT jobs and sending them overseas.

I just came back from a trip to Asheville and the local paper had multiple articles each day about Pillowtex pretty much closing up shop and sending all manufacturing work overseas. The only thing amusing about it was John Edwards trying to explain his being pro- NAFTA (or letting China get Most Favored Nation status) as he couldn't foresee this happening. Yeah, its hard to see what's going to happen when you open up a foreign market with thousands of people working for 1/100th of yours do. Gee, they don't have money to buy our products? What a surprise.

Maybe Asheville is a model for the future of the US. You can't really outsource service jobs at a hotel unless you bring in H1b workers. But people paying $250 a night probably would like to speak to an American that speaks English, so maybe that leaves all the face time jobs for US citizens.