[megatherium]

I'm afraid some of our fellow FReepers don't realize that jobs in high-tech didn't just happen to become obsolete (in Joseph Schumpeter's "creative destruction" in a healthy economy), but were instead allowed to move overseas by deliberate government policy.

Seemingly no one is loyal to America anymore. Not the corporations, which have long abused visa programs to hire foreign workers at much lower than prevailing salaries, and which now are moving their headquarters to Bermuda to avoid their share of the tax burdens all workers take for granted. Not the public either, which crowds the Wal-Marts buying the cheap DVD players and clothing imported from communist tyrannies.

[B4Ranch]

Keep talking, please.

[neutrino]

Not the public either, which crowds the Wal-Marts buying the cheap DVD players and clothing imported from communist tyrannies.

Truly. The problem is, they've been persuaded that offshoring equals lower prices - what they haven't realized is that it also lowers the entire wage structure.

They'll save a few percent on their purchases, and get a pay cut of 50% as the economy restructures.

The candidate (and party) that taps this current will be swept into office with a mandate. Pray it isn't Hillary.

[Don Joe]

Seemingly no one is loyal to America anymore. Not the corporations, which have long abused visa programs to hire foreign workers at much lower than prevailing salaries, and which now are moving their headquarters to Bermuda to avoid their share of the tax burdens all workers take for granted. Not the public either, which crowds the Wal-Marts buying the cheap DVD players and clothing imported from communist tyrannies.

And not the government either. It's too busy greasing the skids, looking the other way as foreign workers come here "for jobs no American will take", and creating incentives like "MFN" for an avowed enemy.