SNIP

Please understand that I am an OPPONENT of "globalization", at least as it has currently been explained and/or observed in operation to date.
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>Free trade and globalization are different than economic growth/recovery in your own country.

Yes they are different but free trade and globalization have NOT been designed to be "turned off" so that the more immediate and more local priorities of any country can be met!
In addition, your "in your own country" qualifier has not an iota of consideration for the proponents, including your own government, of "globalization" - it is assumed that share value growth is the critical thing (they seem to equate this to 'economic recovery/growth') so if more profit can be made by manufacturing something oversea it will be done and it will be good!


>Paying workers in another country to do work specifically for the hiring country is not part of globalization.

Well hiring a programmer for such work is no different than hiring data-entry clerks (as airlines did in the past) or hiring factory workers to make shoes/shirts/chocolates/etc for use in other countries. Nike shares go up because their shoes are manufactured in sweatshop factories where the environment is totally disregarded and wages are more than half recovered by charges for room and boaed in factory 'barracks'.
We have an example on UT of a person whose textile company folded as a result of this kind of thing!

>Hiring workers in another country is a double whammy on the home economy. First, the workers live in another country so what they earn will not be spent in the paying country [bad economically]. Second, the paid worker will not be paying taxes to the home country. Now I am all for no taxes, but this is bad for us because of the system we have to live under.

First, the "globalization" proponents know full well about the taxation implications - they are a VERY prominent factor in their choice to 'adopt' globalization in the first place (along with wages).
Secondly, I believe it is an invalid assumption that the workers will not pay taxes on their (offshore) income in their home country. I know that I have to declare such income here and pay the taxes accordingly.

>For trade/globalization to work you have to have a sound economy. For the growth to evolve it certainly helps to have free trade.

I think you over-simplify this. For the pertinent part of "globalization" to "work" for the U.S. you don't need a sound economy at the producing end near as much as you need strong population control (and good measures of corrupt officials to accept the kickbacks needed to achieve compliance by the masses).
The main reason that free trade is so important to "globalization" is so that governments do not impact the prices of goods and services needed to produce/ship/sell the goods produced.
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