Reply #4: As someone whose job was sent to Bangalore and was supposed

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to be 'retained' to train my replacement, I'm surprised you think this can't happen to you. And the income from the job I lost ... well, what I'm doing now is only about half that amount. This adds up.

World GDP is about $33 trillion annually; US GDP is around $11 trillion with 2/3rds of that as 'consumption'. So about 20 percent of the world's economy is US consumption, and you start stagnating wages along with hemorrhaging jobs ( http://www.nupr.neu.edu/01-04/immigration_jan.html ) and guess what ? Sooner or later YOU'RE going to feel it, with rising costs to make up for the economic impacts you cavalierly blow off as happening mainly to 'exploiting people and resources outside of our borders.'

Sorry, direstrike, it can happen to you and it's already happening to your neighbors. The only ones who don't seem to realize this are the wealthiest Republicans who relate mainly to their gated community neighbors and don't seem to get out of the beltway or near job sixpack's (my) world.