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I had two opinions in the past two days. I saw a missile in the sky over California. Is saw an Islamic crescent in the Google logo. You didn't see it? Fine. But the invective, the insults, the bitterness this launched has shocked me to the core. What in the heck is going on here?

That's what all the anticipation was about? The Government Accountability Office (what you and I remember as the General Accounting Office) last week issued a long-awaited report (which was supposed to be out last spring) on the nettlesome issue of offshoring/outsourcing. If you missed the report, you didn't miss much. The GAO report can be neatly summarized by this sentence from the report's abstract: "Government data provide limited information about the effects of services offshoring on U.S. employment levels and the U.S. economy." (GAO didn't look at goods production offshoring/outsourcing.) The agency noted that "the reasons for the growth in...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. No threat to US jobs because America alone can be the birthplace of ideas. Bangalore techies can only help them reach the market quicker Yamini Narayanan is an Indian-born 35-year-old with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oklahoma. After graduation, she worked for a US computer company in Virginia and recently moved back to Bangalore with her husband to be closer to family. When I asked her how she felt about the outsourcing of jobs from her adopted country, America, to her native country, India, she responded with a...