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Thanks for the ping!

I disagree with the article on one tiny, almost insignificant point - doctors and dentists are NOT safe. Remotely operated medical robots are a reality. Here's a link

I think people fail to realize the very real threat to our nation from outsourcing. It's easy to say that it doesn't matter if some engineer can't find a job and waits tables instead - but where will our future technology come from? Certainly, it won't be given to us by China!

So we are disposing of our seed corn. And those who don't believe it should take a look at the faculty of large research universities - the faculty are imported because few American students make the cut to get their PhD in the hard sciences.

Others don't care about the downward shift in the wage structure - but how are we to service the present debt if incomes fall so steeply?

The loss of jobs needs to be stopped, and it needs to be done now.

Others don't care about the downward shift in the wage structure - but how are we to service the present debt if incomes fall so steeply?

My nightmare scenerio is for Bush to get this quasi semi legal worker visa (aka "lower wages more!") passed and continues to push for "free trade" while high paying jobs get shipped out of the country. In 10-20 years we'll have millions of baby boomers that didn't save enough money pleading for government assistance and no one will be around making enough money to pay the social security taxes to support them.

My greatest fear from that is if the best and the brightest (and those that don't want to be around with the poop hits the fan) start to leave the country for greener pastures in China, Russia, and India where the economies are improving.

The problem with late 20th century thinking (which is what has led us to this problem in the first place) is that it looks at the world from a purely economistic perpsective. Many who promote this view quote Adam Smith out of context. Adam Smith, I agree, described certain aspects of free trade. However, the qualifiers were many and he assumed that there would still be national sovereignty, will to power, and patriotism in the mix. As we know, all three of those are under assualt by the enemies of the West without, and the globalist utopians within. Most globalist utopians I know are actually quite apolitical and are most assuredly part of the so called "3rd way" movement. When we align ourselves with them, we are not taking a particularly conservative postion. I'll stick my neck out and make an explicit prediction. By the end of the 21st century, the latter day globalist utopians will be thoroughly discredited after a return to nationalism, loss of comprehensive strength of Western countries, and, overreliance on debt financing, set the stage for great war. Those who look solely at the economic dimension, and couch all geopolitical strategy based on the false assumption of a Western dominated economic globalism, miss key variables which determine overall success or value.