Criminalize outsourcing?

You worked hard at the same company for 10 years.

But then the CEO moved your job overseas.

The global greed merchants say that's fair. But is it?

After unemployment benefits for Americans who have been left jobless by outsourcing were literally held for ransom last month, nothing is done to rein in those who make the decisions to move jobs out of the country. And who makes these decisions?

The people making these decisions are the right-wing weenie-wavers you see on the Internet bragging about how they own a large business and how they moved their operations overseas because workers abroad don't complain and don't unionize. If workers in some countries don't complain or unionize, it's because their supervisors beat them if they do. Is that what Corporate America wants? Obviously it is, because they keep moving jobs to where it goes on.

Folks, it's time to outlaw outsourcing. Just ban it. American companies simply should not be moving American jobs out of the country.

I'd make a sensible exception if it's for the rare work that simply can't be performed in the United States - but, by golly, it should still be BOUND by American labor laws if the company has any American interests.

If you're a company that wants to sell goods to Americans then, dammit, you're gonna keep the jobs making these goods in America whenever possible. I for one and sick and tired of everything I buy being made somewhere else - while almost everybody I know has been unemployed at least once in the past 5 years.

If you don't support a ban on outsourcing, then please don't attack people who have to go on welfare because they can't find a job.