Lost jobs due to outsourcing are not a loss for the country engaged in outsourcing. The individual who loses their job is severely inconvenienced, but eventually finds another type of employment. We don't own our job, so we can not expect that society owes us a particular job. Having a job is no different than how an animal fights for food in a jungle. The tiger who kills the zebra has to get its quick meal before some other larger animal comes along to steal the remains of the zebra carcass. And don't overlook the vultures who want their fair share, nor should be omit thinking about the rights of micro-organisms to finish the carcass off and turn it back into the dirt. Our bodies are all made of stardust and will all end up as stardust. Only our astral and causal bodies endure. So jobs are just a temporary meal that we compete for, gain, or lose. There should not be an attachment to our jobs, but an attitude of competitiveness instead.

So, when American loses a job to outsourcing, what happens in the long run? If India gets the job, then they get paid in dollars, and eventually, those dollars come back in the form of purchases of American products, deposits in American bank accounts, or real estate investments. Chinese are famous for buying up real estate in California. They have given chinese names to most of the cities in the San Gabriel Valley of California which is proof that the money comes back.

Toyota, a recipient of product outsourcing (importing) since the 70's is now building new manufacturing plants all over the United States. There are now plants in Texas, Indiana, Mississippi, and even had plans for a plant in Georgia. Those uber-patriotic Americans who said, "Buy American" are now faced with the reality that it is a foreign auto-maker who is now offering destitute American auto-workers jobs, while the good-ole American auto-makers are jumping boat and moving their ventures across the border to Mexico. Such an ironic situation! So, what comes around, definately goes around. The ultra-patriotic unionized auto workers in Detroit who strangled the American auto industry with unreasonable union terms, have practically murdered the companies that fed them. Such animosity is hardly good for business. Toyota offers a very Zen sense and methodology of creating harmony between management and labor. Harmony is good for spiritual health and profits, so we should all be happy to import Toyota's application of Zen Buddhism with its various facets.

If you google the word Nummi, you can read about how unionized workers, through too much union control of industry, were able to take unbelievable liberties with their jobs. Contracts made it impossible to fire bad workers, as workers came to work intoxicated, and deliberately did faulty work to retaliate at management. Workers had a culture of making endless conjured up complaints about petty issues, just to gain bargaining chips in their never ending battle against managment. This is an extreme case of the evils of excess union power. But, the result to this imbalance of power is that many American auto plants are being moved to Mexico where there are no Union contracts. The irony is that profits for the American automakers who outsourced their ventures are simply not there.