[Dr. Frank fan]

What a strange point of view. Doesn't he understand that the conventional wisdom is that each and every last Manufacturing Job (=the best kind of job in the world) must stay here forever and ever?

I know I want my children and my children's children gluing soles onto Nikes, instead of continually having those jobs "lost" to China or someplace. Don't you??

Same goes for the jobs we're "losing" to India (e.g. 24-hour telephone customer service); those are such WONDERFUL jobs. Haven't we all dreamed of being able to answer phones from irate computer users in a 24-hour call center? Spending our entire working day with a headset on our head, explaining that there isn't really an "Any" key, etc?

We must bend over backwards and spare no effort to ensure that these dream-jobs stay here indefinitely as a legacy to pass on to our descendants as their American birthright!! And Bush should PERSONALLY see to it that this happens, otherwise he gets all my blame (because everyone knows that the U.S. President is SINGLEHANDEDLY in charge of each and every new job that is "created" or "lost"), and I'm going to vote for Kerry even though I think he'd be worse on a silly little thing like national security. This "losing jobs" thing is THAT important!!!

/sarcasm

[Guillermo]

Funny.

I used to work for a company (Spherion) that staffs call centers (for Equifax, in this case).

The quality of available workers was so poor, it's no wonder these co's look elsewhere for these positions.

You'd be lucky if 10% of that call center worked everyday in a given month.

[Mr Spock]

This article had some good points. Then again, im one of the people that's for a global economy. Isolationism has never been my cup of tea.

[NavyCaptain]

Well if you are an uneducated factory worker, not willing to obtain any sort of training, you don't want any jobs leaving. We need to retrain workers and make the educator's "life-long learning" the reality. Then these workers would be ready for the high-paying jobs that they really want!

[dennisw]

What a strange point of view. Doesn't he understand that the conventional wisdom is that each and every last Manufacturing Job (=the best kind of job in the world) must stay here forever and ever?

STRAW MAN ARGUMENT! We are bleeding the best jobs now not the "crap" jobs that were vital to blue collar Americans survival. Those jobs were sold down the river last decade. While promises were made they would be replaced by hi tech jobs of the future.

Meanwhile the trade deficits yawn wider each year. That's what happens when you ship jobs abroad.