George W Bush: if you are strong on national security, end offshoring now.

By placing our manufacturing, and especially information technology, information outside of this country, you are making it much easier for terrorists to grab vital information about the American people and the technologies we have developed over the decades.

This is wrong. And one of many reasons why offshoring must be halted and reversed now.

Humans are intelligent. If you give them something to work with, most of them are naturally inclined to see what makes it tick - and then improve upon it. This innovation, when given to members of nations that have never meant us good will, will be used to hurt us somewhere down the road. This is an idea I don't particularly find comfortable.

Now while any computer on the internet is technically vulnerable no matter how well it is secured, having the physical data located in grossly insecure areas, off of America's shores, only makes us that much more vulnerable for infiltration. Just breaking in and grabbing the PC makes stealing data far easier than wiggling through programming holes and backdoors.

And speaking of holes and backdoors: May I also add that offshored jobs to India and China go to - you guessed it - computer programmers. These programmers know that India and China have a 74 and 90% piracy rate (respectively) and, understandably, do not want to see their cash cows force them to pony up money that would take even them with their economies a very long time to save up. Giving them the programming jobs is like giving a mouse the job to design an airtight mouse-proof cheese container. You bet the mouse will design deliberate backdoors and holes so he can help himself to the cheese whenever he pleases. So offshoring does not help our economy either, for this aspect alone - but there are many economic reasons why offshoring will hurt us in the long run. A run getting shorter with each passing day.

It is up to you - for you are in power. I implore you. As a fellow American concerned for the future of our national security and economy. Stop the offshoring. Stop the "free trade" agreements whose unspoken costs will mean the end of us all.

that's the point, the only thing he cares about is his true base, the have mores.

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I was going to say - did he wake up today and get a conscience all of a sudden?

Yeah, fat chance of him re-canting his position on offshoring despite it being a political sore spot in 2004. Cons hate American workers and love the American wealthy. And that ain't NEVER changin'. We're nothing but money vacuums to the robber barons.

to him.