[_Jim]

Several of the largest U.S. IT vendors ...

IT is a 'commodity' - I've mentioned this several time over ...

How do you/how would you propose competing in a bottom-dollar 'commodity' field?

Let's take gasoline/petroleum for example - a) how many new 'oil' companies have sprung up in the last 25 years b) what has the cost of gasoline been (indexed to inflation)?

Do you feel that it's "strategic" enough to warrant higher prices across the board and a guaranteed reduced standard of living for the sake of mandating that commodity products and 'jobs' stay on shore?

[oceanview]

what isn't a commodity? only jobs that require a physical presence, or have some form of worker protection, or the protection of the "cliques" like the bond trader job in the article that started this thread.