[Mike Darancette]

Oh why, oh why didn't President McKinley outlaw automobiles so that buggywhip makers and blacksmiths would not lose their jobs?

[oceanview]

sure, the semiconductor industry is the modern day equivalent of the blacksmith industry.

[Beck_isright]

I was wondering when Rove would get those faxblasts out....

[steve86]

why didn't President McKinley outlaw automobiles so that buggywhip makers and blacksmiths would not lose their jobs

False analogy. The outsourcing issue is not about replacing an obsolete technology with a better one. It is about replacing American labor with foreign labor. Why do people adopt facile arguments with no moral compunction?

[kenth]

This is not about an emerging technology replacing obsolescence. It is about foreign workers replacing Americans in American companies due to over-taxation, over-regulation, an imbalance in the various 'free trade' agreements as well as an investor/corporate officer base who view the stock market as a lottery.

[Walkin Man]

The buggywhip makers and blacksmiths were put out of work because of superior technology, the automobile. The US government sure as he** didn't encourage companies back then to send their jobs overseas, and you know it.

They left their old jobs and moved into the auto assembly and parts plants by the millions where they made a lot more money and had better benefits and became middle class Americans.

Now the middle class jobs are disappearing to Red China and India and IF they are being replaced its by low-wage, no benefits McJobs that will drive people from the middle class to the poverty level, working poor.

I get real tired of hearing this free trade propaganda BS...

[judgeandjury]

Oh why, oh why didn't President McKinley outlaw automobiles so that buggywhip makers and blacksmiths would not lose their jobs?

Is your comment supposed to be, in any way, related to the article? You're talking about certain jobs replacing other jobs, all done by Americans, as technology advanced during a certain period in American history, The article is talking about jobs being taken away from Americans and being shipped overseas so foreigners can do them for less pay, leaving Americans unemployed.

[CasearianDaoist]

That is a false analogy - these are not obsolete industries they are the mainstay of modern industrial civilization. That argument is specious. This is a product of multinationals rationalizing the global economies across borders, not obsolescent technologies. What, if I may ask are theses jobs going to be replaced with?

[Wolfie]

Oh why, oh why didn't President McKinley outlaw automobiles so that buggywhip makers and blacksmiths would not lose their jobs?

Bad analogy. Its more like there's still a demand for buggywhips and blacksmiths, but our gov't is helping to ship the buggywhip and blacksmith jobs overseas so corporations can realize an even bigger profit.