One of the best articles I have ever read on the subject of outsourcing and where it will lead us.

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1. This is an exceptionally excellent article. And the last two paragraphs say

a lot about the future of the US given the present course. In essence, we have given up.

"The day is coming when the countries that possess all of our manufacturing capabilities will say to us: "the facilities are ours, they are on our sovereign soil, we will produce the products you want at the quantity and price we dictate... take it or leave it." We will have no choice because our ability to produce any product on our soil will have vanished.

So, because of a few fast-talking CEOs who convinced corporate America of globalization, outsourcing, and that a service-oriented society is the next step to economic security (and loaded their pockets with cash in the process) they have left US (the U.S.) with Tipota for something. That something is (was) our economic heritage."

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/gaines/gaines092004.html