[Outsourcing=Competition]

Your statement implies that there are fields that are stable. I have yet to see anyone tell us just what the stable jobs are. Everyone who thinks outsourcing is good has no clue what the next jobs will be. You're taking on faith that they (the new jobs that is) will appear.

Y'all told us that new jobs would appear when the factory jobs went. Well they did and here we are.

[bvw]

There is one shining indicator of "where we are" -- shining like a great pharoah -- LIGHTHOUSE beacon that, is!

And shows us wrecked and near wrecked on the shoals. That indicator is interest rates. Just as like that when the lighthouse beacon beams in the Captain's cabin bright enough to read by is a sign of immediate and happening danger, so to are these low interest rates.