[Mr. Bird]

Good article. I do believe the knee jerk aversion to companies establishing overseas operations is a bit irrational. I found it particularly interesting that foreign corporations invested more in their US operations in a five year period than US companies invested overseas during the same time frame.

This is not to say that there are no instances of communities suffering due to a company picking up stakes and moving out of the country; it happens all the time. But in the aggregate, it appears to be a non issue. Doesn't make it any easier on someone who lost a job, of course.

[TopQuark]

"I found it particularly interesting that foreign corporations invested more in their US operations in a five year period than US companies invested overseas during the same time frame."

Very true. It's one of those truths in plain sight that remain unknown simply because the leftist scum does not want you to know what the world is really like (you will like it then, and not let them change it). Another telling statistic: 13% of all capital in the U.S. is British? What do you think will happen to these "insourced" jobs if we start putting breaks on "outsourcing?" Aaah, but they don't want us to think --- just to be angry with the "capitalists."

[TopQuark]

"This is not to say that there are no instances of communities suffering due to a company picking up stakes and moving out of the country; it happens all the time."

Does it occur to you that, when it happens, it may be the community's fault?

Also, why is it that you do not think about another community --- that of investors? They must have been suffering while the jobs were located here. Are their problems less of concern?

[expat_panama]

"...foreign corporations invested more in their US operations in a five year period than US companies invested overseas..."

lol,  I missed that!

Something else that's funny is how our anti-business brethren on these threads say that American companies operating overseas it's bad for the US, and when foreign companies move to the US it's still bad for America.

Go figure.