[searchandrecovery]

1. Big corporations are in business to MAKE MONEY (as much as possible) - this is what they do.
2. Big corporations hate employees of all kinds (they're expenses - the opposite of profits), but given a choice, will go with a lower cost employee who can do the same work.
3. They would be STUPID not to outsource if it makes their product or service cheaper.
4. By outsourcing, bidnesses are kind of saying - "Hey America, f you and all your expensive environmental laws, your labor unions, your socialist taxes, your failed public school system & NEA, your eeoc, your osha, your healthcare requirements, your fica, your disability scams, etc., etc.." I agree with them.

That having been said - Kerry's wpa plan sucks, and Bush's lassie faire (you lookup the spelling) free market "plan" sucks. The only plan I can see working is a personal plan to get off the teet of big corporate job entitlement, by taking personal responsibility for one's own job prospects - hopefully by starting my own bidness someday.

[DustyMoment]

I had a laugh at some economist twit on ABC early this morning. She was blathering on about outsourcing and how good it is for the economy and how it encourages foreigners to buy more "American"-made goods.

Ahem. If the majority of our manufacturing is in India, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and the Philippines, how is this helping American manufacturing? And, if more high-paying jobs are going off-shore with the current outsourcing fad, how is that supposed to help America as a consumer nation?

I'll even toss this one into the pot. Suppose we get into a real snot-slinging, down-and-dirty, out-and-out world war and need to ramp up our supply of weapons and munitions? If most of our manufacturing capacity is in Asia and they decide to close the door on us, how much will we be able to affect the balance of the war if we run out of ammo or weapons systems? Don't kid yourselves, a LOT of our military weapons capability is now based in offshore manufacturing. Where do you think mosy of those ICs come from for the nifty new electronic devices they use come from?

(Hint: It's NOT Silicon Valley).

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

D, As power coninues it's ever westward movement. Now, on to the orient. Peace and love, George.