Damn fine post. I too have a very stong family, but not religious. I admit I am a free market zealot and believe in competition. What some people forget is that the definition of competition includes "freedom of entry AND EXIT from the market". This goes for jobs too. US companies outsourced 300,000 jobs overseas in the last 4 years. Most of these jobs are heads down programming and call center jobs that most people in the US do not really want. It is the same as brining in migrant workers to pick lettuce except they can stay home to do the job. According to an article I read in Business 2.0 a couple of months ago, the shipping of these jobs to India and India's removal of their import barriers have created more than 300,000 jobs for US companies. The two largest malls in the world are in India and they are almost exclusively US brands. I also saw the reduction in my taxes.
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