You sound anti-globalisation, but in reality it's increased standards of living for everyone. American and other western workers can get more stuff thanks to cheaper prices. Indians and Chinese get jobs and high economic growth.

Anti-globalist? actually i am not, but just stating the facts.

I partially agree, Jobs go were labor is cheap, and that isn't in the U.S. I wish the way to stay competitive was to simply give tax breaks to companies will keep jobs in the U.S. but that isn't enough.

tda, well in a sense americans benefit a lot from outsourcing. It allows things to be cheaper. This means Americans can buy more things. So it's win-win, Chinese and Indians get wealthier, Americans find their wealth buys more stuff.

I agree that we should not become isolasianist.  The idea of tariffs on countries is also somewhat intruiging but it might her our international trade.  I agree with the majority of people here that we are not going to stop the outsourcing of jobs and that we need to work on retraining and educating our workers to perform new more specialized and jobs.  This would be ideal, other countries would prosper as well as our citizens paying less for goods and getting better jobs.  The key is getting the money for the retraining.  My main problem with the outsourcing thing is that we don't spend money to retrain our workers and we sign lots of trade deals with countries that have little to no laws about work conditions, child labor, work weeks etc....

I agree that we should not become isolasianist.  The idea of tariffs on countries is also somewhat intruiging but it might her our international trade.  I agree with the majority of people here that we are not going to stop the outsourcing of jobs and that we need to work on retraining and educating our workers to perform new more specialized and jobs.  This would be ideal, other countries would prosper as well as our citizens paying less for goods and getting better jobs.  The key is getting the money for the retraining.  My main problem with the outsourcing thing is that we don't spend money to retrain our workers and we sign lots of trade deals with countries that have little to no laws about work conditions, child labor, work weeks etc....