Do you actually think Corporate America is going to hand over anything to anyone? They're sending jobs to India because the people in India work for less, the cost benefits of which offset any possible loss in productivity. The Indians are, in other words, working for what they're getting. They're playing by the rules our government has agreed to play by. The real crux of the matter, IMHO, is that the rules agreed to by our government look after the interests of our corporations but not our people. For example, if it's so darn easy to move capital and jobs to India and China and Ireland, shouldn't it be as easy for labor to move too? Whether we'd like to or not, we should certainly have the option to do so. But while barriers for capital and jobs have been broken down through trade treaties, barriers to labor remain. The capital can move away but we're not allowed to go after it. In other words, our own elected representatives have handicapped us in this globalized workplace since they've allowed our jobs to go overseas and overseas workers to come here and take our jobs, but they haven't pushed foreign governments to allow us to chase the jobs or even the capital. Heck, at the very least, I'd like the opportunity to invest in Indian markets with the same independence of an Indian investor. But I'm not allowed to.
The real problem is this: if you want to go to India and chase your job, you are free to go; no one will stop you - no one in the US, that is. IF you get hired by an Indian company (don't hold your breath), you will have to work for Indian wages; substantially less than American wages. And, as a foreigner working in India, a socialist country, you will likely not receive the subsidies from the Indian government that Indian citizens doing the same work will recieve, which means that you will really be working for slave wages and have the opportunity to discover the joys of poverty in a foreign country. Not a good idea.
The problem is that, as of today, the playing field is NOT level. India and China (among other nations that our jobs are being shipped to) have imposed a tariff/tax subsidy that makes it difficult to get American goods INTO India (for example) for sale at an affordable price and take jobs away from them. To level the playing field so that Americans are not at a disadvantage in this marketplace, we need our government (at a minimum) to eliminate corporate income taxes and introduce a national sales tax. If the corporate income tax AND a lot of the regulations on American businesses are eliminated, the job climate will change drastically. Jobs will be flowing to America faster than we can fill them and all those illegal aliens occupying the country will even have a shot at better jobs than busing tables or construction.
Surprisingly, there is growing interest in Congress to do this. More, however, the Congress simply wants to make it harder for corporations to ship jobs offshore. IMO, that's the wrong approach, but it is A solution; just not the best one. Trying to force American corporations to keep the jobs in America is counter-productive. What we need is an incentive that makes American corporations WANT to keep the jobs here instead of forcing them to keep them here. That incentive is the elimination of corporate income taxes and the imposition of a national sales tax.