re: #132 BryanS

First rule of economics is to buy what you need at the lowest cost because that is the most efficient way to use resources and maximizes return on investment, even if that means buying exports. Sometimes that is labor overseas, but sometimes that overseas labor is more expensive than it first seems because of lower productivity, education, communication barriers, etc. In phone tech support, for instance, there has been some back tracking on the outsource craze around the tech bubble.

it is unfortunate that hiring americans has become so ‘inefficient’