Reply #152: Outsourcing may indeed create economic value... [View All]

...but what it does is take from the U.S. worker and give it to the U.S. owner. A position that cost $x to deliver value now takes $x - $y to deliver the same value. Who wins? Not the U.S. worker who was earning $x beforehand. Perhaps the foreign worker who otherwise might have been earning less. But the clear winner is the owner who now retains $y more in profit from the same value creation. Capitalism 101.

The really unfair part of the equation is that our democratic sovereignty and even our ability to bid on the same offshored job ends at our borders.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.
---Thomas Jefferson, to Annapolis Citizens, 1809

For every dollar the boss has and didn't work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.
---"Big" Bill Haywood

We can continue to cede our sovereignty as working class to DLC "representative" or we can take a stand. Now.