In an economy like India where pennies per day is a raise, why would you not outsource? If you can reduce the costs of good sold, everybody down to the consumer benefits. The fact that your industry in the US goes under is not your concern, you are obligated to your stockholders, not the competitors. The problems came in when the tried to force things overseas that don't fit overseas. Anything requiring local service, or the ability to speak English clearly is what damages that type of job shifting. This then cause sales to fall, which is counterproductive to what you are trying to accomplish. IN other words, it doesn't matter if it was cheap to make if nobody is buying it.

When you have auto worker in Detroit making huge salaries for flipping over bell housings on conveyor belts, THEY CAN'T COMPETE. Be thankful we have a third world ****hole next door to the south instead of a manufacturing powerhouse like Japan. That ocean in between is a great equalizer. That and the fact Japan has no natural resources (they have people resources, China has both).

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