Stinger wrote:

Regulation and Lawmakers (read "lawyers") are exactly WHY many jobs are
going offshore. Many companies have come to the point where they realize
that they have two choices: go out of business or move their operations.

Sure, there are some jobs like tech-support call centers that get
transplanted from basically a "cheap labor" standpoint. But do you know
ANYBODY that wanted to make a career out of sitting on a phone explaining
manuals to people that usually don't bother to read them? Those are "Joe
jobs," like flipping burgers -- not careers -- a temporary position until
something better comes along. However, these are the jobs liberals screech
about because they don't point to the fingerprints of trial lawyers and
excessive regulation.

The Trial Lawyers association gives HUGE amounts of money to Democrats, to
keep the legal environment ripe for the picking.

The real tragedy of offshoring is what has happened to good jobs is in
manufacturing. These are not "Joe jobs," and they are sorely missed.

And the reason these jobs are moving is not basic wage rates -- it's
liability, pure and simple, and the environment that the Trial Lawyers have
fostered with the help of their Democratic friends.

Now that they've made the manufacturing business environment almost
intolerable, the liberal Democrat's brilliant solution is to pass
legislation to force them to stay, rather than to fix the conditions that
led business to want to leave -- basically the same analogy as the Iron
Curtain (which was, ironically, their philosophy in action).

-- Stinger

Very, very well put Stinger.

Bravo.