You have outsourcing and insourcing. In my understanding, many of today's modern corporations have broken the contract they once had with the United States and the American worker. No longer do they consider themselves American corporations really (despite the marketing and PR aimed at American consumers) but instead act as if they are global trans-national entities and plant their flag wherever and however it is most profitable in the short to medium run.

The post WWII business culture and ideology of building a strong America first and foremost may have been sold down the river as shareholder profit became the golden calf of our generation. No longer do these modern trans-national globally concerned corporations make it their duty to invest in manufacturing and enterprise in the USA foremost using American workers with the commitment earlier generations showed but rather seem to exploit whenever, wherever, and however it is legal and profitable for them to do so.

If they can hire Chinese labor at about 3 percent of the average U.S. manufacturing worker's wage and work them in sweatshop conditions under an authoritarian form of government, many will.

Outsourcing happens in a not so "free" trade global environment meaning manufacturing the goods can occur substandard foreign conditions with the products being brought back and sold to American consumers. However, often the governments where the manufacturing is done won't allow them to sell there in an open market (e.g. protectionism) meaning "free" trade is not so free because the trade goes in the foreign host manufacturing country's favor.

Now insourcing, on the other hand, seems these days to be about bringing in illegal and legal immigrants to work for low wages in this country. This works against the citizens, displacing some and causing others to be underemployed. The type of mass insourcing seen today is not in the country's best long term interests on many levels not the least of which include tremendous social costs to taxpayers for the support of illegal and legal immigrant workers and the many poor out of work and underemployed working poor citizens displaced; lost capital in the country as it gets sent out of the country; lost revenue from the illegals that don't pay taxes not to mention the approximately 40,000,000 citizens in this country living below the poverty line that cannot pay the taxes they would otherwise be able to; etc...

Yes, that's right: approximately 40,000,000 United States citizens live below the poverty level and their number is growing. Statistics show this isn't only something that happens to some marginal 'other' on the fringes of society but also the poor unemployed and underemployed working class.

Both outsourcing and insourcing in their current state are bad for the USA in my opinion and your descendent's future but great for the short term profits of the modern US trans-national corporations.

As the pain increases, we hear cries for the government to close the loopholes and raise taxes on the corporations to pay for the burgeoning poor rushing the country and the citizens they displace. That's called Socialism friends and I believe it leads toward authoritarianism and an economic model that does not reward innovation. Taken far enough, history shows that it can lead to an ultra-left or ultra-right form of government (e.g. Communism, Facism, etc...) as economic problems grow progressively worse.

There's still time left if we have the political will to see it through. Do we?

Wanna know who's to blame for outsourcing? The government.

The more they pile on their oppressive tax burdens, and Hillary-esque "take those profits" legislation, the more they're going to find that the only way they can survive is by outsourcing their labor overseas.

Wanna bring the jobs home? Gonna have to sweeten the pot, and make it worthwhile for the corporations.

...and before the liberals start crowing about "forcing" corporations to bring their jobs home, let me tell you...that ain't gonna work. All it would do is make them all go belly up, which would actually raise unemployment even more.