I used this as an answer but it deserves it's own question. What do think?
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Outsourcing is the biggest thing killing our economy right now. (US economy that is). \n\nIt is not just a factor of cheap labor. It is the first step in losing all of our big companies. If all the workers are overseas what is the point in having managers here? If all the managers are overseas what is the point in having a board here? People are not just exporting other people's jobs they are exporting whole industries. \n\nA second aspect on this is that we really don't make anything here in the US any more. If all our ports were shut down for even a few months much of America would come to a screaching halt. We would have empty shelves and no replacement parts. So for the last 20 years we've traded on information and technical ability. Both of those are now in dire risk. The slashing of R&D budgets combined with oursourcing means we will literally be out of the information and technology business. Most of the major software in use today started from a programmer who was employed full time writing code for another company. Not by employees of companies like Microsoft who merely steal or buy the software. If these programmers cannot make a living writing code they do not sharpen their coding skills to write the next great inovations in software. The majority of Open source programmers are employed as programmers for companies, some even use some company time on open source projects. So this outsourcing threatens both our comercial and free software markets. If Western programmers are not hacking out code for a living it will be Indian, Chinese and Russian coders writing the next Oracle, the next great game, the next whatever is needed down the road. It is they who will have the expereince and expertise not us. \n\nIT and the net were saviours to our broken economy in the 80s. The 90s we flourished mostly because of an ineffectual series of presidents and the boom in IT. This boom triggered so many ripples in the US economy that many service industries are now coupled to IT and high tech. As the jobs flow overseas these jobs will dry up as well as the information workers creating even less demand for what we still produce here in the US. \n\nAs for tarrifs they have to be enacted now. If we wait another 5 years it will be too late. Too much of our knowledge base will be outside of our control and our talent will have been religated to the dust heap. This is a major ecnomic crisis which severe impacts for everyone in the nation. The tent cities so many have forgotten will return in the near future if we continue to outsource. \n\nIllegal imigrants are a major problem. Nowhere as big as outsourcing. What is happening is that when everybody went to information management it created openings for imigrants in trades and other semi-skilled jobs. So today a night stocker, a construction work are now working for wages dictated by what people can pay illegal imigrants. Our entire wage scale and standard of living is being decimated by the sheer numbers of illegals we have here and the entrenched structure they have built. Once a job falls into Illegal's hands is very difficult for American's to get on those crews. If they do an American cannot live on those wages without living in the poverty ridden life of an illegal. Many displaced information workers looking to return to previous proffesions are no blocked by illegals. The true unemployment rate, not the joke perpetrated by the Gov is rapidly rising. To aggravate this so many that have ducked into education over the last five years will be graduating to deep debt and no jobs. People with handicaps or strikes on their records will become long term unemployable as the compitition has risen so steeply for what jobs exist. Those that lose a job are often looking at 1-2 years of seeking to find a job that pays a fraction of their previous wages and they feel lucky if they find work in their same field. \n\nLegislation and environment are two factors that hurt employmen
602412
Very good question.  Seems silly now that you brought it up.
43613
Well, if you can't answer that yourself I think you should question your intelligence.\n\nThat was such a nausiating questions I had to take a 5 hour break from this site.
612130
you answered your own question
435062
Huh!? You've already answered your own question... I was about to say that...
62817
While the answer is amusing to some, others may not feel the same way. I have been bashed for giving at least one answer someone didn't appreciate. I have even gone back and deleted a few of my cynical answers because I didn't want to hurt anyone else's feelings. I say give those answers at your own risk, but I think you found an interesting way to still get the funny stuff out there without doing harm.
175046
what is your "point" to this question?\n\nsorry my answer upset you so much. but i thought it rather funny.
1104784
I think I should be answering this question. What do you think?
1160993
answer as a moral question
965503
I think you answered your own question quite aptly.  Good job.
272473
You seem t'have answered ur Q well urself. \nWhat's the point in framing this one?
911875
I think you answered your own question then didn't you?
194729
questions like this deserve answers like this...
893020
It seems you've answered your own question, unless you wish for clarification on the answer you have posted.
59038
You just answered your own question.
535349
yes you should.It is always in a persons best interest to back up and clarify themselves if their question is mis- percieved.\n\nNow that you have done so maybe others will understand the point you were attempting to make.
632268
Did you just answer your own question?