>Rant ON
>...ok so let me get this right...I'm supposed to tell my 400,000+ highly
>skilled, well educated friends not to worry that some dude in India is
>doing his job for $3 an hour and that he/she is gonna be ok...cause we're
>gonna give them a break and send them to community college! Arrrrgh! I
>say lets fry these corps with some taxes that make such actions
>impractial!

The task that no politician wants to take on is to delve into what caused these businesses to do this. First, it is dang near impossible to compete with countries whose standard of living is way below ours. Second, we have to look at what kind of climate our legislators and Congress created to force business expenses to skyrocket. Presidents are mainly just figureheads [only Lt Govs and VPs are lower on the power rungs]. The real power is in Congress and the State legislators. They have so badly screwed up our economy with their petty class-warfare, scare tactics, over regulation, unwieldy tax policies, outlandish lawsuits, no tort reform [they are all mostly lawyers so go figure], ad nauseum.

It's fairly easy to levy tarrifs on imports, but how do you go about levying tarrifs on phone services? Wire taps? I don't think so. Before you blast Bush to heavily, just remember Kerry's wife's company is a major foreign country outsourcer as well, so his ox ain't going to get gored. So you are fooling yourself if you think Kerry can/will do anything about this either. Changing Congress and legislatures is the key. Quit voting for freaking lawyers and accountants.