[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: a German company that outsourced to us

I'll defer to the experts but it seems to me..

I interpret oursourcing to mean moving jobs to India, for example, then importing the work performed there whether the work is services or goods.

I think in general the foreign companies with factories/services here in the U.S. are marketing to the U.S. and are not exporting very much to their home countries. They have factories there.

That's a difference that the likes of the Limbaughs, Hegecocks, and Sullivans overlook (on purpose?) when scoffing at and ridiculing the notion that offshoring hurts American workers -- in between scoffing at and ridiculing the American workers themselves for not wanting to work, of course.

Those free traders argue that we've got many times more invested in Europe that Asia. True. But we are allowed to market to European citizens, that's why the factories are there; we don't have to export the goods and services back to the U.S. to sell. We have factories here for our domestic market.

[Cronos]

Those free traders argue that we've got many times more invested in Europe that Asia. True. But we are allowed to market to European citizens, that's why the factories are there; we don't have to export the goods and services back to the U.S. to sell. We have factories here for our domestic market.

We also market goods to India and China.

I interpret oursourcing to mean moving jobs to India, for example, then importing the work performed there whether the work is services or goods.

That's what Siemen's did to the German workers. Why didn't they keep all their manufacturing in Germany? Because they got better, cheaper and less union filled jobs here.

[Cronos]

But we are allowed to market to European citizens

Try telling that to our farmers who can't get past BRussel's farm subsidies. Or tell that to Boeing which has to fight agains the massive government handouts given by the Eurozone ot Airbus (when was the last time a Eurozone official airline bought a Boeing?)