The overseas jobs thing.. I'm sorry, I know the tax breaks have been mentioned, but your real problem is the currency and the development of second-world economies - and Bush has been devaluing it. Either you put in restrictions which screw up a global economy and will given China/India et al a chance to just compete, outright - it's a problem of development.
India now has the telecommunications structure to compete with the world. It also has a currency that is next to worthless and people who will work hard for a fraction of the amount. Bush's choices are tough ones (they also aren't his, of course) and I believe Kerry or anyone else would have to come to the same conclusions. Either concede some jobs to outsourcing, or just lose the companies that are providing them outright to overseas countries.
Things will balance out, You just have to ride it out. Britain is in the same boat; you know only 1/6th of our population is actually in work? And we have a welfare state running off the back of that 11million workforce, much of which is being made redundant in favour of overseas companies.
As for the attacks, and I hate to say it, but why would Kerry be any different in terms of the risk to the US? Was he going to pull the troops out of Iraq the day he was sworn in? Wouldn't that be just a little silly, given the number of Iraqi civilians that they are still protecting from the factions that are fighting for power? Yes, I agree that the Iraqi invasion was a total disaster and had they wanted regime change, a covert assassination would have been a more effective way of doing so, but they've made the mess, they have to tidy it up - otherwise it'll be a hell of a lot worse for the Iraqis.
Re: I detest single issue voters...look at the big picture for a change
India now has the telecommunications structure to compete with the world. It also has a currency that is next to worthless and people who will work hard for a fraction of the amount. Bush's choices are tough ones (they also aren't his, of course) and I believe Kerry or anyone else would have to come to the same conclusions. Either concede some jobs to outsourcing, or just lose the companies that are providing them outright to overseas countries.
Things will balance out, You just have to ride it out. Britain is in the same boat; you know only 1/6th of our population is actually in work? And we have a welfare state running off the back of that 11million workforce, much of which is being made redundant in favour of overseas companies.
As for the attacks, and I hate to say it, but why would Kerry be any different in terms of the risk to the US? Was he going to pull the troops out of Iraq the day he was sworn in? Wouldn't that be just a little silly, given the number of Iraqi civilians that they are still protecting from the factions that are fighting for power? Yes, I agree that the Iraqi invasion was a total disaster and had they wanted regime change, a covert assassination would have been a more effective way of doing so, but they've made the mess, they have to tidy it up - otherwise it'll be a hell of a lot worse for the Iraqis.