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To: damainman who wrote (193477)	3/26/2009 12:33:23 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 306849

right- agree totally. The huge bloodletting that occurred here happened and never recovered. An L shaped recovery in jobs basically, and since tech jobs were where the good jobs were in the 90s - the labor market never picked up after 2001 despite Larry Kudlow claiming we were in a "boom". The USA created something like 30K jobs per month, consistently for the entire decade- this is something like 1/5 of the jobs needed to sustain population growth here. Obviously wages were flat or declining. This offshoring mess is a hard problem to solve. On the one hand we don't want to go back to the 70s when US industry was in trouble because we were self indulgent with our own labor. On the other hand free trade has some really nasty side effects that nobody bargained for. Not just losing jobs in the US, but quality of life issues like those Maquiadoras in Juarez mexico, right next to the Texas border where 2000 young women have been killed over the last 2 decades- likely by the POLICIA. Nafta caused this and it is gross-disgusting. At a bare minimum Obama should disallow IBM from bidding on any public works projects, and force every firm that gets those to only use US labor. The one shining light in all this is the horrible quality of engineering efforts coming out of these foreign "thinktanks". If you log onto a corporate website somewhere and it looks like sh!t- its an Indian offshore effort that Satyam did most likely. Too late for companies like Dell that lost their business using these turkeys though.