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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
 
With more recalls of toys made in China every week, senator Dick Durban, the number two Democrat in the Senate, called for the inspection of all toys imported from China.

I say, if they want to take that step, why not inspect all imported toys, regardless of where it originated? What makes you think China has a monopoly on defective toys? And when will this wake people up to other dangerous aspects of offshoring? Before the toy scare, there were stories of lost consumer data by Indian firms, dangerous knock-offs of prescription drugs, etc. Most of these stories were buried in the back pages because offshoring was considered the cool thing to do. Hopefully, this will cause people to think twice.

Tuesday, August 07, 2007
 
For a change, Congress is doing something to help Americans fight offshoring. According to the Computerworld article titled "Congress eyes R&D spending to counter offshoring of jobs", Congress reached a deal to fund the creation of ARPA-E, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy. Senator Lamar Alexander said the bill was a "direct response to the challenge to our country to keep our brainpower advantage at a time when other rapidly growing countries like India and China are increasing their technological initiatives." Let's hope it works.


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