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Joe Cipale <joec@aracnet.com> wrote in message news:<401BFDB7.6DD299FF@aracnet.com>...
> Your Special Friend wrote:
> > 
> > http://thekansan.com/stories/013004/vie_0130040039.shtml
> > 
> > Exporting U.S. jobs
 
> > The erosion of the U.S. industrial base has "enormous national
> > security implications," reports National Defense Magazine (August
> > 2003). The United States is so dependent on foreign countries for
> > critical components and systems that we may have lost our control of
> > our supply. We are now dependent on countries such as China, India,
> > Russia, France and Germany for critical weapons technology. For
> > America to be dependent on these nations is risky at best.
> > 
> > A very glaring local example is "Boeing to create jobs in South Korea"
> > (Kansan, April 2002). Boeing has a contract to make 40 F-I5 fighter
> > jets, the first-line fighter of the U.S. Air Force, and will build a
> > plant in South Korea, employing 30,000 workers to manufacture them.
> > Boeing also states that any future orders of F-1 5's will see
> > manufacture in the South Korea plant.
> > 
I see the exporting of high tech and particularly defense work troublesome.
For these reasons:
    1. Not just loss of current jobs in the US but future jobs and skills
        will also be lost. Right now you here the gripe that americans 
       should posses better technical skills, well that will only get 
       worse if there is no demand for it. 
    2. Taxes are taken without choice and spent not on an american worker
       but one in another country.
    3. Reliance on another nation for our defense structure is way too risky.