[Lazamataz]

US companies are seeking to minimize labor costs in order to maximize profits. That's the capitalist business model that has worked fairly successfully for the past few hundred years. I don't blame corporate interests for striving to maximize profits.

And the hell with the rest of us, right?

[Pro-Bush]

And the hell with the rest of us, right?

Painful as it is to be enduring offshore outsourcing's effects on domestic employment, any attempt to legislatively restrict the practice would instead give our international competitors, who are under no such restriction, a cost advantage. That situation would lead ultimately to job losses anyway - or possible company bankruptcies - as companies lose market share because of noncompetitive pricing.

The legislated alternative of forbidding job outsourcing is like building a fort on a sand beach that's washing away below the fort's foundations.