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Are people on this board actually suggesting that the Imperial Federal Government step in and tell private enterprise who they can and can't hire, what they can and can't do with their own businesses?

Is this the Free Republic spirit?!

Overseas outsourcing actually spares American jobs as it allows a business to continue to exist in the international marketplace by shopping out certain non-local functions, as opposed to this firm simply going out of business due to an inability to compete.

The TRUE source of this outsourcing trend are such things as:

a. Minimum wage laws
Which drive up the cost of goods and service at every level of the supply chain.

b. Restrictive mandatory daily overtime laws
Which force companies to hire unnecessary, costly employees due to the fact that the current workforce is not allowed (under law) to fill in certain shifts.

c. Paid Family Medical Leave legislation
Which makes it very costly financially and managerially to employ American workers.

d. Confiscatory levels of taxation
Which create unnaturally high consumer prices, forcing companies to cut fixed and variable costs at any and every level

What we need is much LESS governmental meddling in the affairs of private enterprise and the employees who drive this nation's economic engine.

Outsourcing to India is but a symptom of a very large government-induced problem.

Pure, free-market capitalism is the most moral and ethical economic system, as it distributes the largest amount of goods and services to the largest number of individuals in the shortest amount of time, and compensates people at all levels for doing so.

Your post #20 is the best answer about why these things happen.

One can add the strange subsidies or advantages which may be found in some circumstances ( direct & INDIRECT ), for the move over-seas & the importation of certain workers.

There are many reasons why the government creates these circumstances. Perceived votes ( from existing or aquired constituencies, direct & effective lobby work ( many lobbiest actually write the bills which congress passes ), pay-back to certain foreign interests, and the fact that most Americans ignore the problems!

Most Americans have too many toys, too much 'liesure' time to use the toys & have been trained to ignore or praise whatever the Federal Government does! That slavish worship of the government & your list are the primary reasons.