The only event that is driving this, is Cisco wants to dominate the Chinese market and the only way to sell in China is to manufacture product there, using their people to manufacture, that is how the game is played there and for the chinese it makes sense, considering the government there has has around 1.3 billion people to care for. The lack of understanding here is that Americans need to be cared for to, with economy that providers us with a sense of financial security. The problem centers around jobs now being promoted for poltical purposes as jobs, when you focus on these jobs, you will discover they are not living wage jobs and certainly not jobs that provide for intelligent people staffing them. The other issue that fits into this problem, is the Bush administration gets $1.12 for every dollar earned offshore from any product, so it basically doesn't care, since it keeps the US government solvent, while the rest of us get flushed down the tubes. Making matter's worse is the fact, that executives that support the Bush administration with outsourcing offshore, are financial rewards and tax incentrives that make it attractive to do so. If you don't like the politics of what is happening to you change it in November and work to turn our country around and preserve our friendships globally in the process. My 2 cents -henry