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Dang, its me and only me that can fix the entire economy? Guess I shouldn't have blown my life savings on West African currency futures.... Its near certain that I have place us all in a double dip recession threat.

2012 will witness RAGBRAI XXXX, a far more auspicious event than the Superbowl.

I'm still waiting for my money to come in from Liberia....then we'll fix that dang, old economy

What we need is stategery.

WalMart sells made in America Channellock pliers. Our "mom and pop" hardware store has two hateful clerks and sells only made in China pliers.

Agree 100% Van.

Keeping your engineering base stateside while outsourcing your manufacturing base is a gutless strategy that is unfortunately all too common in corporate America. When pressed for reasonins why CEO's say things like "we have to remain competitive" or they use 1990's jargon like "shareholder value". Phrases like these are merely smokescreens for greed.

What a shame that outsourcing is taught in business schools, and outsourcing business case analysis is taught in engineering schools as well ... like it's automatically the preferred practice. These kids come out of college blindly pursuing this strategy because ... someone else said so.