And this is really the divergence of viewpoints. As a libertarian conservative I support the removal of onerous regulation and bureaucracy that is causing overseas ventures to look more enticing than keeping businesses in the U.S. While your solution is to string more red tape around the system, choking it further, so you can manage the outcome and not get into nasty ideas like human freedom. Thomas Sowell wrote a column persuasively arguing that we are by-in- large exporting low-wage jobs while importing higher-tech, higher wage jobs: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ printts20040115.shtml Praising the slave labor economy of Communist China as well as advocating the abuse of private property - I really must brush up on my red-baiting skills. Brian A. Gross ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html