[KenWittlief]

outsourcing is fine
as long as its someone elses job that is being outsourced, not yours

the problem is, you dont just show up at work for 8 hours a day, then go home - for many hi-tech jobs you put a lot of creativity into it and you personally further the state of the art

but when that gets sent overseas, you have nothing to show for it.

Dean would feel differently if the chinese or japanese government decided his Segway is nothing but a classic inverted pendulum PID control system, voided his international patents, and started flooding $300 Segway clones into the US - when YOUR source of income has been outsourced, its a different story.

BTW - 9 out of 10 patents dont stand up in court when contested.

also, nationalism is nothing but putting your preference to a certain part of the world, or a certain form of government - if you are willing to follow your job to china or india, and live there for the rest of your life, thats cool

but north america is different in one aspect - our ancestors did not live here as far back as we can trace - at some point in our family tree, our ancestors decided to leave their homeland and move here, and many of us dont want to go live in another part of the world.

Is that nationalism? absolutely?

is it a bad thing? I dont think so.