Reply #61: Outsourcing and Investment [View All]

I certainly agree with you about the detrimental effects of outsourcing.

The investment you refer to is creating jobs when there is already a demand for the goods to be produced. It is the demand that started the process, not the investment.

Also, when that investment is taken to other countries (when there is already demand for production from American consumers,) it destroys American jobs. Those are jobs that could have been done by American workers, but were sent to another country to take advantage of the low-wages in a poverty-stricken country.

Americans can only become competitive with an impoverished foreign labor pool by accepting the same starvation level wages. And that has nothing to do with education or training.