[Arizona Carolyn]

This whole thing goes back to Jack Welch when he decided to outsource at GE and then put the pressure on all their vendors to do the same (if they wanted to do business with GE) then it led to more and more and more....of course all the heads of these companies kept getting larger and larger bonuses because they were increasing the bottom line so well

Now, the people working in Mexico are being outsourced elsewhere because they are making a whoping .50cents and hour and someone else will do it for less...

I ask those who think this is good? WHO is going to BUY these products when eveyone's jobs are outsourced? The people who used to make these good in the USA made good wages and could afford new washing machines, refrigerators, cars, etc., but if they are unemployed and not buying and the people making these products are being paid slave wages, who will buy these goods...

No one worried about this as long as it was the "manufacturing" being shipped out; then someone decided -- hey with the internet we can outsource our high-paying computer jobs, won't have to pay benefits, retirement, insurance, FICA, etc... so now the higher paying jobs are going .. yet another group of people trying to decide if they want to be cops, teachers or...

Lest you all flame me; a few months ago there was a special program aired on CSpan with the top economists, Chamber of Commerce head, etc., and the bottom line was "WE DON'T have an economic model to base this on, and thanks to the internet this is growing so fast, the implications are, as yet, unclear, but the economic professor who wrote the current book being taught on econ, says he is very concerned about this ... I own my own business, so have no ax to burn, but if I was one of the many who worked in Silicon Valley and have been outsourced, I wouldn't be a happy camper... or if I worked for MayTag and made $15 and hour and found my job shipped to Mexico -- or ugh, China -- China HATES the USA -- yet we are sending all our technology and many jobs there --

So, don't laugh at Lou Dobbs... who, BTW is a Republican (a Conservative Republican). This President Bush didn't create this, it was conceived under 41 and implemented by Clinton (you know the Democrats who USED to be pro-business, pro-Union and then sold out!). Our Government used to have checks and balances, no more, now it's who has the most money and right now, it's not the Republican Party, but since Clinton, the Democratic Party has the deepest pockets.

[Age of Reason]

This whole thing goes back to Jack Welch when he decided to outsource at GE and then put the pressure on all their vendors to do the same (if they wanted to do business with GE) then it led to more and more and more....of course all the heads of these companies kept getting larger and larger bonuses because they were increasing the bottom line so well

It just seems to me that when America licenses and protects business, that those businesses should have obligations to We the People.

Just as We the People have been the ones drafted to war to save the sorry butts of those fat CEO's.

If American citizens are expected to do die for their country, then Ameircan companies should be expected to look out for American citizens.

Business and citizens should either prosper together or fail together.