[Walkin Man]

If you do not have the particular set of job skills that an employer needs, of if you have priced your labor out of the marketplace, guess what? It's not the employer's fault. The fault lies with you. Either develop a new set of job skills that are actually in demand, or adjust your pricing.

An industrial worker in communist China makes 30 or 40 cents an hour, the slave laborer make 0 cents an hour, a PhD in India makes maybe 20 grand a year.

You tell me how an American industrial worker or white collar hi-tech worker can compete against those wages.

HOW???????

This country was not set up just to benefit CEO's and multi-national corps while the rest of us live in cardboard boxes under the nearest bridge!

Our government is charged with "promoting the general welfare" of the American people.

I believe that US corps should have the right to hire whom they like but the government has the obligation to promote the general welfare of ALL the people so these companies that outsource or move operations offshore should lose any tax breaks they had been given in the past and be forbidden to do any work of any kind for the US and any state government.

Plus their product should have an extra tax put on it as well because of the economic damage that these companies do to America.

Like another poster said, if the Republicans think they are going to win elections by telling formerly middle-class, formerly productive taxpayers, formerly base Republican voters, that this destructive off-shoring - outsourcing process is GOOD FOR THEM and their now bankrupt families, the Republicans WILL be voted out of office and the Rat party will again gain an iron grip over this country once again.

You Republicans NEVER LEARN do you?

I hope those 6 thousand dollar shower curtains and 2 million dollar birthday parties that you Republican free traitors are fighting for seem worth it to you after the next 8 years of demoRat rule over this country!

[MrB]

Our government is charged with "promoting the general welfare" of the American people.

Common mistake, usually made by Democrats.

The words "general welfare" are only relevant in that they describe the purpose for given Congress the power to pass laws restricted to the enumerations in Article I, Section 8.

[MacDorcha]

losing tax breaks is a good move.

i do however, think that we CAN compete with the lesser wages in india, if we simply learn to deal with it as they have. it's the lazy people who expect it all on their plate for less that make this world loss its value.

[MEG33]

"Free traitor" is getting old.Haven't we had this whine before?

[going hot]

I hope those 6 thousand dollar shower curtains and 2 million dollar birthday parties...

No, you have it backwards, it is the 2 mil shower curtains and 6 thou parties we hold for our children. Get your priorities straight man, or you will never be a eeeleeet rebublican money hungry, screw everyone but me type of guy. You will be a mere pawn, a poor underclassman, with nary a bridge to hovel under while you eat mulligan stew cooked over your meager fire in a used coffee can.