Reply #25: Actually, I wanted to hear what you had to say.

[Cassandra]

"One positive outgrowth of the outsourcing debate may be an increased focus on the policies that maintain a competitive environment for quality job creation: research, fiscal, technology, regulatory, and education policies to improve innovation and build a highly skilled workforce. The United States must always compete for the cutting-edge industries likely to drive higher-wage job creation in the United States. Continually advancing to the cutting edge ensures that as technology and automation increase the ease of out-sourcing, we are developing new products and services that create new job opportunities at home."
Basically all service jobs, although higher paying ones. What will that do to help our trade deficit? Before Reagan, we were 97% self-sufficient. Now we hardly manufacture anything for export at all. Also, research, banking and state regulatory jobs are already being outsourced. We can't have an economy where we export nothing, import everything and have nice jobs servicing each other. That just won't last forever.