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Went to your link, scanned your post, and bookmarked it for later reading. There are a lot of well educated Americans like yourself who have yet to feel the sting of "offshore outsourcing" as it is euphemistically called. And when they do, the call will be for government intervention and more regulation. Just like we are losing our freedoms in the name of security since 9/11, we will lose our ability to create, innovate and engineer as there will be less call for those skills as the jobs that support them will no longer be here.

I commonly visit a website where in the backwater of NM machinists, welders, boilermakers keep alive skills long lost in this country (and most of the world). These few people are dedicated to keeping a half dozen steam locomotives alive and running because the economy of their small town and one in CO is dependent on the tourist dollars the RR brings in. A similar thing may well happen on an infinitely larger scale in this country if the drain of jobs and the skills that make them possible are lost. Just like the steam engine is not coming back and survives as an historical curiosity, our manufacturing and high tech jobs are not likely to return either, leaving this country in a much more precarious position to survive as we once knew it.